2005 Recipients
Majdoline Hatoum
| Lebanon
| The Daily Star
| Majdoline Hatoum, 25, is a reporter for The Daily Star Newspaper in Beirut, Lebanon. Since joining the staff of the Daily Star, Hatoum has become one of the newspaper's key reporters writing about cultural and development issues as well as the region's political situation. She is also preparing her master thesis in international law on the role of the U.N. in newly emerging democracies.
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Zerihun Taddesse
| Ethiopia
| The Reporter
| Zerihun Taddesse, 31, is deputy editor-in-chief at The Reporter, an Amharic language newspaper and magazine, and The Reporter English language newspaper in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He has worked as a journalist in both broadcast and print since 1998 first as a reporter, then senior editor before assuming his present post earlier this year. In spite of government efforts to limit press freedom, Taddesse has been praised by his colleagues for his professionalism and dedication to the cause of press freedom in Ethiopia.
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Shajna Zareer
| Republic of Maldives
| Television Maldives
| Shajna Zareer, 30, is a reporter, writer and producer for Television Maldives. Since she joined the station eight years ago, Zareer has covered local stories along with national issues for the country's only television station. During the December 2004 tsunami, Zareer worked actively on the station's disaster coverage which included 12 bulletins a day, three times the usual newsroom output, and has continued with additional coverage during the ensuing months.
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Tilak Prasad Pokharel
| Nepal
| The Kathmandu Post
| Tilak Prasad Pokharel, 27, is an assistant reporting coordinator with The Kathmandu Post. Colleagues say that since joining the Kathmandu Post in 2000 he has become one of the newspaper's finest journalists. Traveling to many parts of the kingdom, Pokharel has written some high impact stores ranging from the plight of Nepali labor in the Gulf and Malaysia to the clashes between security forces and Maoist rebels. His relentless and dogged coverage of the Exploitation of Nepali minor girls in an Indian circus resulted in the rescue of the 42 girls and reunion with their parents.
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