Posted on 05/03/2002 2:00:00 PM PDT by HAL9000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Kathy Gannon, who has covered Afghanistan and Pakistan for The Associated Press since 1988, is one of three winners of the Courage in Journalism Awards of the International Women's Media Foundation.Gannon, the AP's bureau chief in Islamabad, was cited for "compelling stories and courageous reporting" about the war on terrorism.
The awards recognize women who have risked their lives to report about war and repression worldwide.
Gannon was in Afghanistan on Sept. 11, and wrote about the Taliban's reaction to the attacks on New York and Washington. Ejected with other foreign reporters, she returned twice after the American bombing campaign began. On Oct. 25, she was the sole Western reporter allowed into Kabul.
Gannon was the first to report the fall of Mazar-e-Sharif and Kabul, and the first to report that fleeing Taliban had taken with them eight foreign aid workers, including two American women.
She also was the first to write about the 11-volume "manual of Afghan Jihad," a guide to "basic rules of sabotage and destruction," and the first to visit a laboratory at an al-Qaida compound where materials left behind included a booklet on how to survive a nuclear explosion.
In nominating Gannon, the AP wrote: "With courage and cunning and inexhaustible energy, Kathy Gannon became the Western world's single most important source of news about the war in Afghanistan."
Also named:
- Anna Politkovskaya, a reporter for the Moscow-based independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta. The foundation said her reporting on the war in Chechnya was balanced, earning her threats from both the Russian government and the Chechen rebels.
- Sandra Nyaira, political editor of The Daily News in Harare, Zimbabwe. The foundation said she works amid "daily harassment and threat in a country with one of the worst records of press freedom in the world."
The foundation also said Washington Post columnist Mary McGrory will receive its Lifetime Achievement Award.
The awards will be presented Oct. 16 in New York. Mariane Pearl, widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, will join the ceremony for a tribute to journalists killed in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks and the war in Afghanistan.
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[Her most popular!]
No Lack of Targets in Afghanistan Associated Press | September 14, 2001 | KATHY GANNON
TALIBAN HOPES FOR WESTERN PROPAGANDA [Taliban NEEDS traitorous media - my title] Pravda | 11/10/01
"Several weeks ago, the Taliban organized a show trip for a group of foreign correspondents to the Kandagar region, so that those correspondents could see for themselves the devastation caused by US bombings. Kathy Gannon, Associated Press’s Islamabad bureau chief, is working there. She is the only Western journalist entitled to cover events on Taliban-controlled territory of Afghanistan. "
[great cartoon in reply #1 by diogenes]
Our latest 'quagmire' TownHall.com | Tuesday, November 20, 2001 | by John Leo (with commentary by "JohnHuang2")
"The journalism award for earliest detection of a U.S. quagmire in Afghanistan probably should go to AP reporter Kathy Gannon, filing from Pakistan only a week after the twin towers fell. "History is not encouraging," she elucidated. "Now it may be the United States' turn to try a foray into the Afghan quagmire." "
U.S. Jets Strike Kabul on Sabbath Associated Press | Friday, October 26, 2001 | By KATHY GANNON
Christian Groups Shut Down - Afghanistan (August 31, 2001 Author: Kathy Gannon)
Osama Bin Laden Urges Next Generation to Prepare for Holy War (04/11/2001 Author: Kathy Gannon)
Buddhist Statues in Ancient Buddhist Complex Destroyed (03/13/2001 Author: Kathy Gannon)
Not too bad a reporter: her articles had real information in them- a rare treat these days.
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