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Join 600 media leaders and overseas reporters at the International Center for Journalists’ annual Awards Dinner, DC’s premier international journalism event.
Jorge Ramos, anchor and reporter for Univision, will receive ICFJ’s Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism for three decades of covering issues vital to the Latino community. Lynsey Addario, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who has covered conflicts from Afghanistan to South Sudan, will receive our award for Excellence in International Reporting. Her recent book “It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War” is slated to be made into a movie starring Jennifer Lawrence and directed by Steven Spielberg. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer will return as master of ceremonies.
Outstanding international reporters Yoani Sánchez of Cuba and Priyanka Dubey of India, will receive the Knight International Journalism Award. Sánchez has overcome censorship and persecution by Cuba's communist regime and opened the door for other independent voices. Dubey has revealed the atrocities of rape, child trafficking and forced labor, despite threats to her own safety.