September 23, 2025
The Ryszard Kapuściński Award for literary reportage was established and
announced last month, on the third anniversary of the author’s death,
by the City of Warsaw and Poland’s largest daily newspaper, Gazeta
Wyborcza.
The international jury of the 53rd annual World Press Photo Contest has selected a photo by the Italian photographer Pietro Masturzo as the World Press Photo of the Year 2009. The picture depicts women shouting in protest from a rooftop in Tehran on 24 June.
At least 71 journalists were killed across the globe in 2009, the Committee to Protect Journalists announced, the largest annual toll in the 30 years the group has been keeping track.
The New York Times‘ David Rohde, who wrote about his ordeal as a prisoner of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, is among the 13 winners of the George Polk Awards, announced Tuesday by Long Island University.
ICFJ has produced two online guides — written in English and Spanish — to help journalists better cover disasters and deal with traumatic situations. The “Disaster and Crisis Coverage” guide is designed to help journalists everywhere prepare for future disaster coverage. The Journalists and Trauma guide gives suggestions on how journalists might interact with victims, survivors and eyewitnesses of tragedy and how they cope with the emotional impact of trauma on their own psyches.
The Great Decisions in Foreign Policy television series, produced by the independent Foreign Policy Association, is now airing on PBS stations nationwide. Among many of the world leaders and newsmakers the series interviews is OPC member and New York Times columnist Nicolas Kristof.
The OPC joins other international news organizations deeply alarmed by your continued attacks on Yemen’s independent press. We ask that the Yemen government cease and desist in all manner of these attacks.
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In January my co-chair Jeremy Main produced a review of press-freedom abuses around the world in 2009—the first review of the year from any press-freedom organization that I’m aware of. As Jeremy points out, even without the massacre of 30 Philippine journalists and 27 others in Maguindanao in November last year would have been a dreadful one for journalists around the world. By the count of the Committee to Protect Journalists, 70 news people were killed because of their work, and that was a record. Reporters Without Borders put the number even higher, at 76. The number of journalists held in jail jumped to 136, according to CPJ (169 according to RSF).
Shutting the newspaper industry off from openness of web risks a ‘sleepwalk into oblivion,’ argues Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger.
