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Magazine wins eight journalism awards for outstanding work in 2012, the most of any magazine in Chicago. CHICAGO, May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Chicago magazine is the recent winner of seven Lisagor Awards and one Herman Kogan Media Award. The Chicago Headline Club honored Chicago at its annual awards ceremony on Friday, May 3. The organization, which is the largest Society of Professional Journalists chapter in the country, gives these awards to the Chicago journalists...

Writers Bob Woodward, David Finkel, DeNeen Brown and Ezra Klein are featured among all-star lineup ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Poynter Institute, one of the country's top journalism training centers, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post will partner on a writing workshop designed to help writers of all experience levels improve their skills. Featuring some of the Post's most successful reporters and authors, and led by Poynter senior...

Texas Photographer Kevin Vandivier is currently seeking out and representing top photographic talent in major markets worldwide for his new online photo agency, The Gathering of Photographers (TGOP). Austin, Texas (PRWEB) May 07, 2013 Award-winning photojournalist, Kevin Vandivier, is currently seeking top photographic talent in major markets worldwide for his new online photo agency, The Gathering of Photographers (TGOP). “I’ve enjoyed over 30 wonderful years in this business and I...

WASHINGTON, May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, the National Press Club announced the winners of its 2013 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Awards:  Zeynep Kuray, a woman reporter from Turkey, which jails more journalists than any other nation; and, in the United States, "The Whistleblower." (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080917/NPCLOGO ) Each year, the NPC confers its Aubuchon award on people whose work and lives have advanced the...

OTTAWA, May 2, 2013 /CNW/ - Stephen Maher of Postmedia News and Glen McGregor of The Ottawa Citizen will be the 15(th) recipients of the World Press Freedom Award, at the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom's  (CCWPF's) annual luncheon celebration at the Ottawa Convention Centre. Maher and McGregor were selected for the Award for a series of stories they co-wrote on the so-called 'Robocalls" affair exposing fraud in the federal election of 2011. This not only touched off...

WASHINGTON, May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Press Club commemorated the 20th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day with a sober reminder of how unfree the press is in most of the world and a pledge to keep working to change that. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080917/NPCLOGO) Created in 1993 by the United Nations General Assembly, World Press Freedom Day is celebrated on May 3 of each year and has three goals. The first is to evaluate the state of...

Panel discussion to focus on role of NY Times in setting tone of coverage WASHINGTON, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Center for Immigration Studies will host a panel discussion to explore the effects of ideological bias in the media coverage of immigration policy on Monday, May 6, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120806/MM52838LOGO ) The starting point will be the New York Times' treatment of immigration,...

INVESTIGATION UNCOVERS EXPLOITIVE SYSTEM OF LOW-COST TEMP LABOR FOR MAJOR CORPORATIONS NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES AND ST. PAUL, Minn., April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, as Congress continues debating immigration and labor reform, ProPublica and American Public Media's Marketplace announce an exclusive joint investigation into a largely secret underworld of temporary labor in the U.S. The investigation reveals how scores of immigrant workers are caught in a system that benefits some...

Tom Brokaw Receives Lifetime Achievement Award; Diane Foley, mother of James Foley, will light the candle in memory of the Journalists Killed and Missing in Action NEW YORK, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- 2012 saw key international press coverage originating from Syria and China. Those two countries dominated the annual awards from the Overseas Press Club, with both the Associated Press and National Geographic capturing three prizes each. Syria dominated the breaking news...

Following a deadly year, Newseum launches public awareness campaign WASHINGTON, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Monday, May 13, the Newseum will rededicate its Journalists Memorial, which honors newspeople who died or were killed in the pursuit of news. The names of 84 journalists who died covering the news in 2012 will be added to the memorial at the 10 a.m. ceremony, along with six journalists killed in previous years who were recently brought to the Newseum's...