Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas and Burmese investigative reporter May Thingyan Hein were named 2007 Knight International Journalism Award winners by the International Center for Journalists. The award, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, recognizes individuals who have raised the standards of media excellence in their countries. The recipients will be honored at the ICFJ Awards Dinner in November. Read more.

Ten winners of Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism were announced Aug. 8. Recipients were chosen from a field of 133 entries by a national panel of judges. Awards are administered by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland. The top winner will be announced Sept. 17 at the National Press Club. Read the press release on the J-Lab website.

Lydia Cacho, a Mexican journalist who is a recipient of a 2007 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award, was featured in La Opinion, a Spanish-language newspaper based in California.   Read the article (in Spanish).

Campbell Brown, an IWMF board member and a former NBC News correspondent, will join CNN. Beginning in September and going on the air in November, Brown will work for CNN on a primetime show. Brown most recently co-anchored NBC's Weekend Today and was a correspondent at NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams, substituting for Williams when he was away.   Click here to read the Reuters article.

A journalist for more than three decades, Peta Thornycroft is one of the few remaining independent journalists in Zimbabwe. As a correspondent for The Daily Telegraph in London, Thornycroft, 62, covered the 2002 election when President Robert Mugabe stole victory with a campaign of violence in the midst of the country’s spiraling economic crisis. She also contributes to Voice of America and Independent Group in South Africa.

An Iraqi photographer and driver working for Reuters in Iraq were killed in Baghdad July 12. Photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, were killed, bringing the Iraq war death toll for Reuters employees to six.  Read the Reuters article.

A correspondent for CIMAC news agency and a feature writer for Dia Siete magazine, Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho has endured numerous death threats because of her work reporting on domestic violence, organized crime and pedophilia.

Ethiopian journalist and former publisher Serkalem Fasil, who was arrested in November 2005 and charged with treason and outrages against the constitu...

In the midst of the war in Iraq, the women of McClatchy’s Baghdad bureau risked their lives just to get to work. Driven by the desire to report to the world about the situation in their country, they became the backbone of bureau.

More than 30 journalists have been killed in the past six years in Mexico, according to an article in The Washington Post. Many others have been kidnapped in a campaign of intimidation largely attributed to the drug cartels.  Read the article in The Washington Post.

Elena Poniatowska, renowned journalist and author from Mexico who received the 2006 IWMF Lifetime Achievement Award, was awarded the Romulo Gallegos literature prize June 26 for her novel El Tren Pasa Primero (The Train Passes First). The prize is awarded every two years for what is judged the best Spanish-language novel. Past winners include Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.

Narda Zacchino, a former IWMF board member who now serves on the Advisory Council, is leaving the San Francisco Chronicle July 7. Zacchino, deputy editor at the Chronicle, has worked there since 2001. Prior to that, she spent 30 years at the Los Angeles Times.  Click here for more details.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 25, 2007 For more information:Lindsey Wray(202) 496-1992LWray@iwmf.org Australian Journalist Sally Sara Name...

Peta Thornycroft, the recipient of the IWMF's 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award, received a special James Cameron Memorial Award for her reporting from Zimbabwe. Thornycroft, a Zimbabwean citizen, has worked for the The Daily Telegraph since 2001.  Click here to read more

An Iraqi reporter working for The New York Times was shot dead on his way to work in Baghdad July 13. Khalid Hassan, 23, was killed just one day after two Reuters employees died in Iraq. Circumstances of the attack remain unclear. Hassan was the second Iraqi employee of the Times to be killed during the Iraq war.   Read a Reuters article about the incident.