Awards: New Central European Investigative Prizes

CEI to award outstanding investigative journalism
International Journalist's Network - USA
... CEI says was created in view of the difficult conditions under which journalists frequently work, will have a focus on investigative journalism in 2008. ...
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The Biz: Cost-Cutting Leads to News Release Journalism?

The press release and cost cut problem: editorial forgetting core ...
editorsweblog.org - USA
The practice seems to be widespread and international, as echoed in books by Guardian journalist Nick Davies and French investigative journalist Paul ...
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Awards: I. F. Stone Prize for Journalistic Independence

From today's Secrecy News bulletin from the Federation of American Scientists:

I.F. Stone (1907-1989), the celebrated journalist and iconoclast who was renowned for his independence, is being remembered in the service of the values he embodied. The Nieman Foundation at Harvard University today announced the establishment of an I.F. Stone Award for journalistic independence, integrity and courage: http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/

A richly detailed new website devoted to I.F. Stone provides excerpts from his writings, biographical information, reminiscences and other information: http://www.ifstone.org/