The IPI World Congress that began on September, 24 and would continue until September, 28, 2011 has journalists from across the globe in participation. <\/p>\n
The IPI National Committee delegates were part of the Opening Dinner and Award Ceremony. The Director of the IPI, Alison Bethel McKenzie acknowledged the distinguished works of journalists, and recognized the effort of the 60 IPI World Press Freedom Hero. During this year\u2019s ceremony, 2 more journalists were enlisted in the IPI World Press Freedom Hero to make it a total of 62 persons. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis year, IPI decided to award 2 journalists who have contributed immensely to free media because there was no way to leave one out of the other\u201d stated Ms. McKenzie. The recipients of the award, late US journalist, Daniel Pearl and South African editor, Raymond Louw, have worked as investigative journalists exposing critical points on the war on terror, and also in ending apartheid in South Africa respectively. Mr. Daniel Pearl was brutally killed in Pakistan, in 2002, but Raymond Louw, was present to receive his award. \u201cMurder on the line of duty has remained the highest cause of death for journalists\u201d, stated Ms. McKenzie. <\/p>\n
Award was also presented to this year Free Media Pioneer for 2011. This year recipient of the award is Radio Kalima, a Tunisia online radio that was continually harassed, and suppressed because of its transparent reporting under the formal President, Zine el-Abidine. IPI National Committee, Azerbaijan, led by the Chairman, Umud Mirzayev, was the committee that that made this year\u2019s vetting and final shortlist. <\/p>\n
The Azerbaijani Press Council Chairman, Afatun Amashov, and the other participants met with relevant media representatives to talk about media climate in Azerbaijan and also establish new contacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\n\u2026the Chairman of Press Council, Aflatun Amashov, the Chairman of International Eurasia Press Fund and Chairman of the IPI National Committee Azerbaijan, Umud Mirzayev, and the Executive Director of the Azeri Press Agency, Vusale Abishova participated in meetings and discussions sessions that were moderated and elaborated on by renowned journalists in the panel.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}