The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism
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The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism was established in 1999 by the Martha Gellhorn Trust. It is founded on the following principles:
The award will be for the kind of reporting that distinguished Martha: in her own words "the view from the ground". This is essentially a human story that penetrates the established version of events and illuminates an urgent issue buried by prevailing fashions of what makes news. We would expect the winner to tell an unpalatable truth, validated by powerful facts, that exposes establishment conduct and its propaganda, or "official drivel", as Martha called it. The subjects can be based in this country or abroad.
The prize is awarded annually to journalists writing in English whose work has appeared in print or in a reputable internet publication.
[edit] Previous winners
- 2007 - Dahr Jamail (unembedded, Inter Press Service, IPS) and Mohammed Omer (unembedded)[1]
- 2006 - Hala Jaber (The Sunday Times) and Michael Tierney (The Glasgow Herald)
- 2005 - Ghaith Abdul Ahad (The Guardian); Jonathan Steele (The Guardian) received a special award for his distinguished career as a reporter.
- 2004 - Patrick Cockburn (The Independent)
- 2003 - Chris McGreal (The Guardian)
- 2002 - Robert Fisk (The Independent)
- 2001 - Geoffrey Lean (The Independent)
- 2000 - Jeremy Harding (London Review of Books)
- 1999 - Nick Davies (The Guardian)
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[edit] References
- ^ Caitlin Fitzsimmons,Reporters share Gellhorn prize, The Guardian, 19 May 2008.
