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Announcement of Winner of Hinzpeter Awards 2024
It was an honor and a privilege to serve as chair of the Hinzpeter Video Journalism Awards for 2024. On behalf of the jury, the May 18 Foundation and the Korea Video Journalists Association I would like to congratulate the winners of this year’s competition. We had entries from across the globe and the quality was quite simply extraordinary. I would like to take a moment to recognize our Palestinian colleagues who have been our only eyes into the devastating war in Gaza. They have continued to report even as they have been targeted and their families killed by Israeli bombs.…WATCH THE VIDEO
Kathy Gannon on Free Speech Hub
A heartfelt thank you from Kathy Gannon for standing with Afghan media and journalists during these challenging times. Your support and solidarity bolster our commitment to defending freedom of the press and ensuring that the truth continues to be heard.
Anja Niednringhaus Exhibition at Bronx Documentary Center
On May 9 the exhibition will open at the Harvard Kennedy School co-hosted by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and the Niemen Foundation.
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Anja Niedringhaus died on April 4, 2014, killed by an Afghan police commander, who emptied his AK-47 rifle into the car in which she was sitting. It occurred in eastern Afghanistan on the eve of a critical vote for president, an event Anja knew would test the courage of Afghans. She was ready with her camera and with her heart.
A collection of Anja’s powerful images from Afghanistan and Pakistan will be on display at the Bronx Documentary Center from April 4, 2024, 10 years to the day since her death. They will also be featured in a book accompanying the exhibition. Learn more about the Exhibition here.
Additionally, here is a collection of links to many stories about the exhibition.
'Anja Niedringhaus' Opening Reception at Bronx Documentary Center
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Anja Niedringhaus died on April 4, 2014, killed by an Afghan police commander, who emptied his AK-47 rifle into the car in which she was sitting. It occurred in eastern Afghanistan on the eve of a critical vote for president, an event Anja knew would test the courage of Afghans. She was ready with her camera and with her heart.
A collection of Anja’s powerful images from Afghanistan and Pakistan will be on display at the Bronx Documentary Center from April 4, 2024, 10 years to the day since her death. They will also be featured in a book accompanying the exhibition.…READ MORE
Opening Reception: Anja Niedringhaus
GRF High-Level Event: The Support Platform for the Solutions Strategy for Afghan Refugees
At the start of a panel I moderated at the UNHCR Global Refugee Forum in Geneva in December 2023:
“I would ask our panel and our audience to keep an open mind, understanding that Afghanistan has been at war for more than 40 years, and perhaps reflect on the possibility that past policies and initiatives have failed to both bring lasting peace to Afghanistan, to the region and have failed to afford Afghans the opportunity to craft their own solutions toward lasting peace.
Perhaps the time has come to see what can be done differently, whether policy makers and governments can find a way to see Afghanistan’s 40 million people not as a problem to solve, but as the solution.”
Kathy Gannon on BBC
As the US blocks a UN resolution calling for a truce in Gaza, we hear from a doctor in Gaza with Médecins Sans Frontières who calls the humanitarian situation ‘the catastrophe of the century’.
Joining Paul Henley to discuss all this and more are Kathy Gannon, former Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent for the Associated Press and Steve Erlanger, chief diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times in Europe.
(Photo: A protester outside the UN headquarters in New York City, 8 December 2023 Credit: David Dee Delgado/Reuters)