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Ilya Barabanov, 2010 PMA recipient, at work in an undated photo. © Ilya Barabonov
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Karla Rivas (right) with Catherine Antoine, Mackler's widow, at the National Press Club in October 2012. © PMA
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Lukpan Akhmedyarov, 2012 PMA recipient, was clubbed, stabbed and shot for his reports on corruption. © Lukpan Akhmedyarov
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Karla Rivas (second from left) covers a community meeting. © Karla Rivas
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Ilya Barabanov is led away by police during the riots that followed the Pussy Riot verdict on August 17, 2012 in Moscow. © Ilya Barabanov
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Sri lanka prison officials escort Tamil journalist J.S. Tissainayagam (center) to a prison bus in Colombo on August 31, 2009 © AFP/Ishara S. Kodikara

About The Peter Mackler Award

The Peter Mackler Award honors reporters and editors who have demonstrated a commitment to fairness, accuracy and speaking truth to power, and a matching commitment to asserting the right to publish or air that story in countries where independent media is under threat.

Past Recipients

2013
Faisal Salih
Khartoum, Sudan
2012
Lukpan Akhmedyarov
Uralskaya Nedelya, Kazakhstan
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Ten Years Hard Labour For Exposing Burma’s Chemical Weapons Factory July 12, 2014

International press freedom and human rights organisations reacted sharply to the 10-year prison sentences imposed on the CEO and four journalists of Burma’s Unity Weekly newspaper after they were convicted, Thursday, under the country’s Official Secrets [...]

Journalist Shot Dead Covering Egypt Clashes March 31, 2014

A reporter was killed covering anti-government protests in Cairo. Mayada Ashraf reporting for Al-Dostournewspaper and Masr Al-Arabiya website was shot in the head by an unknown gunman during clashes that followed Egypt’s army chief Field Marshal [...]

 

Recipients: Faisal Salih

2013

Faisal Mohamed Salih, reporter, editor, columnist and journalism teacher in Sudan, is the winner of the 2013 Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism. The keynote speaker, Ambassador Princeton N. Lyman, was U.S. special envoy for Sudan and senior advisor on North-South negotiations. The award ceremony was held at the National Press Club in Washington DC, Thursday October 24th.