The 15th annual Gala of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CFJE) honouring courageous reporting from home and abroad was held on December 5 under the theme : What you don’t know can hurt you.
“You see, so many thousands of citizen journalists have sacrificed their lives across Syria to convey the brutal and sometimes astonishing events taking place in Syria. (…) I will accept this award but only on behalf and in full dedication to the citizen journalists of Syria.”
Rami Jarrah in his acceptance speech via video from Syria
in pictures
Journalist Alain Gravel from Radio-Canada’s Enquête winner of the 2012 Tara Singh Hayer Award at the CJFE Gala with CMG pres Carmel Smyth and CMG comms director Jeanne d’Arc Umurungi
Mae Azango winner of the 2012 CJFE International Press Freedom Award with Kim Benoît, CMG pres at TFO and Michelle MCQuigge, CMG member with the Canadian Press
in numbers
102 Number of journalists killed so far in 2012, the bulk of them in Syria
55 Canada’s rank in the world for access to information (was 40th last year)
