Committee to Protect Journalists

CPJ honors press freedom leaders
New York, November 25, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists honored four journalists from Somalia, Tunisia, Azerbaijan and Sri Lanka with its 2009 International Press Freedom Awards at a ceremony held Tuesday night. About 800 people attended the benefit dinner, which raised more than $1.3 million. Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent and a member of the CPJ board, hosted the ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria. Less than 24 hours after the ceremony, CPJ welcomed the release of two foreign journalists kidnapped in Somalia since August 2008, a relief in a week that started with a massacre of journalists in the Philippines, one of the worst ever documented by CPJ.

See an overview video about CPJ shown to hundreds at the dinner.


MEDIA CONTACTS

Meredith Greene Megaw, Communications Manager
email: mgmegaw@cpj.org

Andrew Levinson, Media Officer

Email: alevinson@cpj.org