Nahum Barnea wins int'l journalism prize

Senior Yedioth Ahronoth reporter awarded Maria Grazia Cutuli prize, given in memory of Italian journalist killed in Afghanistan

Yedioth Ahronoth's senior political correspondent Nahum Barnea has won the Maria Grazia Cutuli international journalism prize, which was awarded to him in a ceremony in Sicily, Italy this weekend.

 

The prestigious award, which was founded in memory of an Italian journalist who was slain in Afghanistan, is given every year to one Italian journalist and one foreign journalist.

 

Maria Grazia, 39, a correspondent for Corriere della Sera, and three other journalists were murdered on the road from Jalalabad to Kabul in Afghanistan on 19 November 2001.

 

The murder sent shock waves across the journalistic community and the Italian public. During her career Cutuli covered the massacre in Rwanda, the wars in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan and the intifada.

 

'Courageous journalists never die'  

A jury of 14 journalists and media professors from Italian universities picked the winners. The prize committee chose to honor Barnea for his coverage of the Middle East conflict, as well as of events worldwide.

 

Barnea was presented the prize by one of Corriere della Sera's prominent reporters Antonio Ferrari, who referred to his Israeli counterpart as one of the senior journalist in the western world.

 

In his speech at the ceremony, Barnea said: "Courageous journalists never die. They go on living in the memories of their readers and as role models for young journalist who seek to enter this demanding profession."

 

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