Tickets For 2011 PMA Ceremony Now on Sale!

October 5, 2011

Reporters Without Borders / Global Media Forum

Please join us for the presentation of this year’s

PETER MACKLER AWARD
FOR COURAGEOUS AND ETHICAL JOURNALISM

Honoring : Karla Rivas
Radio Progreso, Honduras

October 20, 2011
6.00 PM

National Press Club – 529 14th Street, N. W.
Washington DC

Cocktail reception to follow with Silent Auction to benefit the Peter Mackler Award

Tickets: $25 ($10 with student ID)
Available at the door or in advance

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More Information: info@pmaward.org

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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

2020 Masrat Zahra Srinagar, Kashmir

2019 Paolo Borrometi Rome, Italy

2018 Jovo Martinović Podgorica, Montenegro

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