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IPFA 2022
(Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for CPJ)
Committee to Protect Journalists honors reporters who defy war and
repression
New York, November 18, 2022-The Committee to Protect Journalists
(CPJ) paid tribute Thursday evening to inspirational journalists from
Cuba, Iraqi Kurdistan, Ukraine, and Vietnam by presenting them with
the 2022 International Press Freedom Awards (IPFA). CPJ's
board of directors also honored Russian editor and publisher
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Galina Timchenko with its 2022 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award.
The event was held live in New York City following two years of
virtual and hybrid events.
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"Our press freedom awardees are unwavering in their commitment
to keeping the public informed, often at great personal
sacrifice," said CPJ President Jodie Ginsberg. "These
journalists' determination to report the facts - even in the
face of relentless attempts to silence them - is
inspiring."
The 2022 awardees in attendance included Cuban journalist Abraham
Jiménez Enoa, and the Ukrainian editor-in-chief of
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Ukrainska Pravda, Sevgil Musaieva. CPJ also honored jailed
Vietnamese journalist
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Pham Doan Trang and exiled Iraqi Kurdish journalist
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Niyaz Abdullah,
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who was unable to travel to the United States.
"We Cuban journalists will not be silent. There is no possible
way to leave us without our voice," said Jiménez, who was
forced to leave Cuba for Spain after Cuban authorities threatened him
and his family because of his reporting. Jiménez, who received
his award from veteran journalist María Elena Salinas, went on
to say, "We Cuban journalists will denounce the outrage of
Cuba's dictatorship until the final second of its existence.
Even if we must pay a high price for doing so."
Musaieva spoke powerfully of the experience of maintaining a
newsroom-and with it, truth and hope-in her embattled
homeland of Ukraine while mourning friends and colleagues like Brent
Renaud and Maksim Levin, both killed while documenting the early
stages of Russia's full-scale invasion. Sharing a memory from
her diary of bringing clothes to the morgue for Renaud, she declared,
"Truth survives when there is someone to fight for it."
Holly Williams of CBS News presented Musaieva with her award.
CNN's Omar Jiménez accepted the award on behalf of Trang,
who is imprisoned in Vietnam. In his remarks, he called for solidarity
with Trang and other journalists incarcerated for bravely pursuing the
truth.
Jason Rezaian of The Washington Post announced the award for Abdullah,
saying that CPJ would hold it for her until she was able to receive it
in person. With the award, CPJ sought to highlight the legal
harassment by security forces and local authorities to which she was
subjected for criticizing Kurdish authorities. She was also detained
and threatened with violence over her work.
Journalist and writer Masha Gessen presented the Gwen Ifill Award
honoring Russian journalist Galina Timchenko for extraordinary and
sustained achievement in the cause of press freedom. Timchenko, who
helped to found and now runs the popular Russian news site Meduza from
exile in Riga, Latvia, vowed to "reach out to millions of
Russian readers who need the truth now more than ever," and "provide
independent objective information to our readers and not to leave them
alone at the darkest hour."
The evening included two special segments dedicated to honoring
the 62 journalists killed so far in 2022 and another in
solidarity with dozens of Iranian journalists arrested while covering
women-led protests against the state.
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This year's awards ceremony was hosted by ABC News President Kim
Godwin. The event was chaired by Shari Redstone, chair of Paramount
Global. Redstone commended the awardees' "commitment to
shining a light on the actions of those in power, an unyielding
adherence to the truth, and an unshakable sense of ethics and
integrity." The event raised over $2 million, which will go
toward supporting CPJ's work to protect press freedom globally
at a time of record numbers of journalists imprisoned, persistent
impunity in their killings and waves of journalists forced into exile.
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Journalists interested in scheduling an interview with the awardees
and CPJ experts or requiring photos or b-roll should email
[email protected]. Profile videos about the awardees are
available here and the entire awards dinner can be watched
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here.
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