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UN journalists award more than 30,000 in prizes UNITED NATIONS, Saturday (Reuters) The U.N. Correspondents Association chose the Wall Street Journal, independent filmmaker Theodore Folke and the British Broadcasting Corporation for its top journalism prizes on Friday. Each of the UNCA's first prize winners, for print journalism, broadcast and humanitarian reporting, received $10,000 at a black tie dinner. The Wall Street Journal team won for a series on U.N. activities around the world written by Robert Block, Alix Freedman, Carla Anne Robbins, Jess Bravin, Steve Stecklow. The funds for the print journalism award came from the Boston Globe and UNCA in honor of Elizabeth Neuffer, the U.N. correspondent for the Globe killed in Iraq in May 2003. Second prize in this category was a $1,000 award given to Bivan Saluseki of The Sunday Post of Zambia for his feature on life in a U.N. camp for Congolese refugees. Folke, an independent filmmaker for the U.S.-based Samba Project, received the gold medal for broadcasting for his film on East Timor, the former Portuguese colony that the United Nations ushered to independence from Indonesia. The award is in honor of Ricardo Ortega, the Spanish journalist killed as he covered street protests in Haiti last March. His former employer, the Spanish TV station Antena 3, sponsored the $10,000 award. Tied for second place was Kristin McHugh of KQED Public Radio and The Stanley Foundation, for a radio documentary, called UNder Fire, on the the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The other winner was Hidetoshi Fujisawa of Japan's NHK TV for his feature on "Rebuilding Iraq: The Challenge of the United Nations." The U.N. Foundation, started by media magnate Ted Turner, gave $10,000 for reporting on humanitarian and developmental affairs. This prize went to Mark Doyle of the BBC for a series on U.N. operations in Liberia. Second prize was awarded to Simone Duarte of Brazil's Duarte Productions for "En Route to Baghdad," a documentary about the life of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the senior U.N. official killed when the world body's headquarters was bombed in Baghdad in August 2003. |
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