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Exiled journalists share firsthand accounts of navigating asylum and work abroad, May 4

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Monday, April 24, 2023
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ET on Thursday, May 4, to highlight cases of exiled journalists from around the world.

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  • ET on Thursday, May 4, to highlight cases of exiled journalists from around the world.
  • But the trendline is unmistakable and harrowing for what it tells us about global norms around intolerance for critical watchdog journalism.
  • Join us to hear what life has been like for a few of these exiled journalists since they made the decision to pursue life and freedom abroad.
  • Fearing arrest if she is forced to return to India, Masrat is a Knight Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan.

Report for the World expands global network of independent newsrooms, support for journalists in exile

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023
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BOSTON, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Report for the World today announced the selection of 15 new host newsrooms, more than doubling its global network from eight to 20 countries. Among them are five, independent newsrooms reporting on their home countries in exile.

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  • Report for the World today announced the selection of 15 new host newsrooms, more than doubling its global network from eight to 20 countries.
  • BOSTON, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Report for the World today announced the selection of 15 new host newsrooms, more than doubling its global network from eight to 20 countries.
  • Among them are five, independent newsrooms reporting on their home countries in exile.
  • Report for the World will provide salary and training support; however, the newsrooms will remain editorially independent.

Press Leaders Outraged Over U.S. Reporter's Sentence in Myanmar

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Friday, November 12, 2021
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He was sentenced to jail by a court in Myanmar on Friday purportedly for spreading false or inflammatory information, contacting illegal organizations, and violating visa regulations.

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  • He was sentenced to jail by a court in Myanmar on Friday purportedly for spreading false or inflammatory information, contacting illegal organizations, and violating visa regulations.
  • "Journalists and people of conscience everywhere are shocked and outraged at this miscarriage of justice," said Lisa Nicole Matthews, president of the National Press Club, and Angela Greiling Keane, president of the National Press Club Journalism Institute.
  • "Danny Fenster has committed no crime and was only doing his job of informing the world about events in Myanmar.
  • The National Press Club honored him this year with a John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award, which recognizes journalists who persevere in the face of extreme adversity.

Journalism Institute honors The Marshall Project with the Sheehan Award for Investigative Journalism

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Wednesday, September 15, 2021
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Marshall Project , a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, will receive the National Press Club Journalism Institute's 2021 Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for Investigative Journalism.

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  • WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Marshall Project , a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, will receive the National Press Club Journalism Institute's 2021 Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for Investigative Journalism.
  • The Marshall Project partners with national and local media outlets to reach diverse audiences and produces deeply researched narratives with resource-strapped newsrooms.
  • "All of us at The Marshall Project are honored and delighted to receive this award named for the Sheehans, models of great investigative journalism," said Susan Chira , editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project.
  • The Institute will confer the 2021 Sheehan Award during the virtual portion of its annual Fourth Estate Award Gala on Oct. 20 .