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Thomson Reuters Foundation and Kurt Schork Memorial Fund

The Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism

 

The Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism celebrate the debt we owe to brave journalists who work hard - often at great personal risk - to report on conflict, corruption and injustice. Now in their 20th year, the Awards are named in honour of American correspondent Kurt Schork, who was killed in Sierra Leone while on assignment for Reuters in 2000.

The three Award categories recognise the journalists most admired by Kurt: freelancers, local reporters and news fixers. Their work is often poorly paid, mostly unsung and frequently fraught with danger. 

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE WINNERS
 
 
 

Meet the 2020 and 2021 Award winners 

Join us for an online event on Wednesday October 20th,
3:00 - 4:00 PM (GMT +1) to hear from the 2020 and 2021 winners of the Awards, as well as Samantha Power - Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - who reported alongside Kurt Schork on the frontlines of the Bosnian War. 

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Speakers

Samantha Power

Administrator, 
 USAID

Meera Selva 

Deputy Director and Director of Fellowship Programmes, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Fisayo Soyombo

2020 Kurt Schork
Local Reporter Award Winner 

Shah Meer Baloch 

2020 Kurt Schork
Freelance Award Winner 

Khabat Abbas

2021 Kurt Schork
News Fixer Award Winner 

Jason Motlagh 

2021 Kurt Schork
Freelance Award Winner 

Rafael Soares 

2021 Kurt Schork
Local Reporter Award Winner 

Antonio Zappulla  

CEO, 
Thomson Reuters Foundation 

Stephen Jukes

Professor Emeritus at Bournemouth University and
Vice President of the Kurt Schork Memorial Fund 

 
 

Agenda

3:00 PM - 3:05 PM
Welcome Remarks by Antonio Zappulla,
Thomson Reuters Foundation

3:05 PM - 3:10 PM
Remarks by Samantha Power,
USAID 

3:10 PM - 3:50 PM
A conversation between the 2020 and 2021 winners of the
Kurt Schork Awards

Moderated by: Meera Selva,
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

3:50 PM - 4:00 PM
Closing Remarks by Stephen Jukes,
Kurt Schork Memorial Fund
 

 

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