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{{Short description|Journalism award}}
{{Infobox award
| name        = International Press Freedom Awards
| awarded_for = courage in defending [[press freedom]] in the face of attacks, threats or imprisonment
| presenter   = [[Committee to Protect Journalists]] (CPJ)
| location    = [[New York City]]
| country     = United States
| year        = 1991
| website     = [http://cpj.org/awards/ Awards website]
}}

The '''CPJ International Press Freedom Awards''' honor journalists or their publications around the world who show courage in defending [[press freedom]] despite facing attacks, threats, or imprisonment.<ref name=CPJ2010>{{cite web|url=http://www.cpj.org/awards/2010/cpj-to-honor-brave-international-journalists.php |title=CPJ to honor brave international journalists |archive-date=September 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902115010/https://www.cpj.org/awards/2010/cpj-to-honor-brave-international-journalists.php |year=2010 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> Established in 1991, the awards are administered by the [[Committee to Protect Journalists]] (CPJ), an independent, non-governmental organization based in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cpj.org/about/ |title=Frequently Asked Questions |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |archive-date=August 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819100337/http://www.cpj.org/about/ |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> In addition to recognizing individuals, the organization seeks to focus local and international media coverage on countries where violations of press freedom are particularly serious.<ref name=HR>{{cite news |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/international-press-freedom-awards-shine-48557 |title=International Press Freedom Awards Shine Spotlight on Endangered Journalists |author=Georg Szalai |archive-date=November 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127011450/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/international-press-freedom-awards-shine-48557 |date=November 23, 2010 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>

Every November four to seven individuals or publications are honored at a banquet in New York City and given an award.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9Q6QMP80.htm |title=Committee to honor 4 journalists for courage |author=Anita Snow |date=October 6, 2011 |agency=Associated Press |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623215646/http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9Q6QMP80.htm |archive-date=June 23, 2015 |work=Bloomberg BusinessWeek |access-date=August 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> The ceremony also honors the winner of the Burton Benjamin Memorial Award for "lifelong work to advance press freedom".<ref name="2011 awards"/> Past hosts have included crime correspondent and former hostage [[Terry A. Anderson]],<ref name=AP2210 /> ''[[Amanpour]]'' host [[Christiane Amanpour]],<ref name=OD>{{cite web |url=http://www.odwyerpr.com/blog/index.php?/archives/3664-CPJ-Fetes-Journalists,-Rather-at-Waldorf-Banquet.html |title=CPJ Fetes Journalists, Rather at Waldorf Banquet |author=Jack O'Dwyer |date=December 5, 2011 |archive-date=October 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001124200/http://www.odwyerpr.com/blog/index.php?%2Farchives%2F3664-CPJ-Fetes-Journalists%2C-Rather-at-Waldorf-Banquet.html |publisher=O'Dwyer's |access-date=August 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> and ''[[NBC Nightly News]]'' anchors [[Brian Williams]] and [[Tom Brokaw]].<ref name=CPJ2010 /><ref name=HR/> In 1998, the ceremony was briefly disrupted by protesters who unfurled a banner calling for the release of former [[Black Panther Party|Black Panther]] [[Mumia Abu-Jamal]] from [[Pennsylvania]]'s death row.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=APAB&d_place=APAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F8B7168E12357CC&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=Five journalists honored by international press freedom group |agency=Associated Press |date=November 25, 1998 |website=NewsLibrary.com |access-date=August 10, 2012 |archive-date=October 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012192437/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=APAB&d_place=APAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F8B7168E12357CC&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |url-status=live }} (Subscription required)</ref>

==History==
The first awards were given in 1991 to American photojournalist [[Bill Foley]] and his wife, journalist [[Cary Vaughan]]; Cameroonian reporter [[Pius Njawé]]; Chinese dissidents [[Arrest and trial of Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao|Wang Juntao]] and [[Arrest and trial of Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao|Chen Ziming]]; Russian television news anchor [[Tatyana Mitkova]]; and Guatemalan reporter [[Byron Barrera]].<ref name="1991-1996 awards"/> In 2014, the organization awarded its twenty-fourth group of journalists.<ref name="2014 awards" /> On three occasions, an award was also given to a news organization of which multiple staffers have been at risk: Tajikistan newspaper ''[[Navidi Vakhsh]]'' (1994), several reporters of which murdered during the [[Civil war in Tajikistan|1992–1997 civil war]];<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=1509 |title=Killing the Messenger |date=November 2005 |author=Sherry Ricchiardi |work=American Journalism Review |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060510211034/http://ajr.org/article.asp?id=1509 |archive-date=May 10, 2006 |access-date=May 28, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> Guatemalan newspaper ''[[Siglo Veintiuno]]'' (1995), which was subject to police and army raids for its uncensored coverage of government corruption and human rights violations;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.freemedia.at/awards/jose-ruben-zamora.html |title=José Rubén Zamora, Guatemala |publisher=International Press Institute |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104174519/http://www.freemedia.at/awards/jose-ruben-zamora.html |archive-date=November 4, 2012 |access-date=August 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> and Turkish newspaper ''[[Özgür Gündem]]'' (1996), which was subject to a campaign of publication bans, assassinations, and arrests for its reporting on the conflict between the [[Turkish Armed Forces]] and the [[Kurdistan Workers' Party]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cpj.org/awards96/yurtcu.html |title=The International Press Freedom Awards: Ocak Isik Yurtçu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120903164743/https://cpj.org/awards96/yurtcu.html |archive-date=September 3, 2012 |year=1996 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>

Occasionally, imprisoned laureates accept their awards at a later ceremony, such as China's [[Jiang Weiping]], who was awarded in 2001 but attended the ceremony in 2009,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/awards/2009/jiang-weiping-china.php |title=Jiang Weiping, China |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |archive-date=September 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902082151/http://cpj.org/awards/2009/jiang-weiping-china.php |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> and Azerbaijan's [[Eynulla Fatullayev]], who was awarded in 2009 but attended the ceremony in 2011.<ref name="2011 awards"/> Sri Lankan reporter [[J. S. Tissainayagam]] was also awarded in 2009 while imprisoned, but was released in time to attend the 2010 ceremony, quipping in his acceptance speech: "Ladies and gentlemen, my apologies for being late."<ref name=HR />

The award was given posthumously on three occasions: to [[David Kaplan (producer)|David Kaplan]], an [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] producer killed by a sniper in [[Sarajevo]] in 1992;<ref name=AP2210>{{cite news |url=https://apnews.com/8fbcb364553a818ac2bd87e413c34cf3 |title=ABC Producer's Widow Accepts Press Freedom Award |date=October 22, 1992 |publisher=Associated Press |archive-date=June 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150602015232/http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1992/ABC-Producer-s-Widow-Accepts-Press-Freedom-Award/id-8fbcb364553a818ac2bd87e413c34cf3 |access-date=August 12, 2012 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref> to [[Paul Klebnikov]], a Russian ''[[Forbes]]'' journalist shot to death in 2004 by unknown attackers;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cpj.org/awards04/klebnikov.html |title=CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2004: Paul Klebnikov |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |archive-date=June 3, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603093001/https://cpj.org/awards04/klebnikov.html |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> and to [[Atwar Bahjat]], an Iraqi journalist for [[Al Arabiya]] who was abducted and murdered in February 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ifex.org/international/2006/11/20/cpj_honours_four_journalists_with/ |title=CPJ honours four journalists with International Press Freedom Awards |date=November 20, 2006 |archive-date=December 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111210182859/http://ifex.org/international/2006/11/20/cpj_honours_four_journalists_with/ |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |access-date=August 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> A number of other laureates had been threatened or attacked in the year preceding their award, such as Guatemalan journalist Byron Barrera (1991), whose wife was murdered in an attack on their car,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dcz12K9bASEC&q=Byron+Barrera&pg=PA23 |page=23 |isbn=978-0842025591 |title=Communication in Latin America: journalism, mass media, and society |author=Richard R. Cole |year=1996 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |access-date=August 10, 2012}}</ref> and [[Željko Kopanja]] (2000), who lost his legs in a car bomb.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/ipf/kopanja.html |title=International Press Freedom Awards: Zeljko Kopanja |work=NewsHour |publisher=PBS |archive-date=May 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529051144/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/ipf/kopanja.html |access-date=August 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> Other laureates have been killed after their awards, such as Irish crime reporter [[Veronica Guerin]] (1995), awarded a year before her murder,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/86191.stm |title=The second fall of Veronica Guerin |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=May 6, 1998 |archive-date=September 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920171821/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/86191.stm |access-date=September 30, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> and Palestinian cameraman [[Mazen Dana]] (1991), awarded two years before being fatally shot by a US soldier in Iraq.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/aug/19/iraqandthemedia.iraq |title=US troops 'crazy' in killing of cameraman |author=Jamie Wilson |date=August 19, 2003 |archive-date=March 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328233931/http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/aug/19/iraqandthemedia.iraq |work=The Guardian |access-date=August 1, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> Eritrean journalist [[Fesshaye Yohannes]] (2002) died while still imprisoned; owing to conflicting reports and the secrecy of his confinement, the cause and year of his death remain unclear.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/2007/02/in-eritrea-a-prominent-journalist-dies-in-a-secret.php |title=In Eritrea, a prominent journalist dies in a secret government prison |date=February 9, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902082805/http://www.cpj.org/2007/02/in-eritrea-a-prominent-journalist-dies-in-a-secret.php |archive-date=September 2, 2012 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |access-date=August 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>

==Recipients==
This list includes the recipients of the award as recorded at the official CPJ website. It is sortable by year, name, and country; owing to naming conventions in different countries, not all names are sorted by last name. Names in italics are publications which have received the award.

[[File:2012-01-18 Татьяна Миткова crop.jpeg|thumb|upright|1991 recipient [[Tatyana Mitkova]]|alt=A woman with black hair, Tatyana Mitkova, sitting at a table]]
[[File:Veran Matić, novembar 2011 crop.JPG|thumb|upright|1993 recipient [[Veran Matić]]|alt=A man with glasses and a graying beard, Veran Matić, sitting at a table]]
[[File:Goenawan Muhammad 3.jpg|thumb|upright|1998 recipient [[Goenawan Mohamad]]|alt=An older man, Goenawan Mohamad, smoking]]
[[File:Dmitry Muratov, 2012.JPG|thumb|upright|2007 recipient [[Dmitry Muratov]]|alt=A man with a full beard, Dmitry Muratov, speaking at a podium]]
[[File:Andrew Mwenda crop.jpg|thumb|upright|2008 recipient [[Andrew Mwenda]]|alt=A man in a suit and sunglasses, Andrew Mwenda, smiling]]
[[File:Mansoor al-Jamri in July 2011.jpg|thumb|upright|2011 recipient [[Mansoor Al-Jamri]]|alt=A man wearing a suit with short black and white hair, Mansoor Al-Jamri, reading a paper]]

[[File:Shahidul Alam (38123779086).jpg|thumb|upright|2020 recipient [[ Shahidul Alam]]|alt= Alam in 2017 ]]
[[File:Beatrice Mtetwa of Zimbabwe - 2014 IWOC Awardee.png|thumb|upright|alt=A woman with glasses, Beatrice Mtetwa, sitting in a chair|2005 recipient [[Beatrice Mtetwa]]]]

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;"
|+Key
|style="background-color:#D8BFD8"|{{dagger|alt=Award received posthumously}}
|Award received posthumously
|-
|}
{|class="sortable wikitable"
|+ Recipients by year and country
|-class="unsortable"
! scope="col"| Year
! scope="col"| Honorees
! scope="col"| Country
! scope="col" style="text-align:center" class="unsortable" |Ref.
|-
|scope="row" rowspan="5"| 1991
| {{sortname|Bill|Foley}} and {{sortname|Cary|Vaughan}}
| {{USA}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards">{{cite web|url=http://www.cpj.org/attacks96/frontmatter/ipfa.html |title=Journalists Receive 1996 Press Freedom Awards |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |archive-date=June 5, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605095952/https://www.cpj.org/attacks96/frontmatter/ipfa.html |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| [[Pius Njawé]]
| {{CMR}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| [[Arrest and trial of Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao|Wang Juntao]] and [[Arrest and trial of Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao|Chen Ziming]]
| {{PRC}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Tatyana|Mitkova}}
| {{RUS}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
|{{sortname|Byron|Barrera}}
| {{GUA}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
|rowspan="5"| 1992
|style="background-color:#D8BFD8"| {{sortname|David|Kaplan|David Kaplan (producer)}} {{dagger|alt=Award received posthumously}}
| {{USA}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Mohammed|Al-Sager||Sager, Mohammed Al}}
| {{KUW}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Sony|Esteus}}
| {{HAI}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Gwendolyn|Lister|Gwen Lister}}
| {{NAM}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| [[Thepchai Yong]]
| {{THA}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
|rowspan="5"| 1993
| {{sortname|Omar|Belhouchet}}
| {{ALG}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| [[Đoàn Viết Hoạt]]
| {{VIE}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Nosa|Igiebor|Nosa Igiebor (journalist)}}
| {{NGA}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Veran|Matić}}
| {{SRB}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Ricardo|Uceda}}
| {{PER}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
|rowspan="5"| 1994
| [[Iqbal Athas]]
| {{LKA}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Aziz|Nesin}}
| {{TUR}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Yndamiro|Restano|Yndamiro Restano Díaz}}
| {{CUB}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Daisy Li|Yuet-Wah}}
| {{flag|Hong Kong|1959}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| ''[[Navidi Vakhsh]]''
| {{TJK}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
|rowspan="5"| 1995
| {{sortname|Yevgeny|Kiselyov}}
| {{RUS}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|José Rubén|Zamora Marroquín|José Rubén Zamora}} and ''[[Siglo Veintiuno]]''
| {{GUA}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Fred|M'membe}}
| {{ZAM}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| [[Ahmad Taufik]]
| {{IDN}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Veronica|Guerin}}
| {{IRL}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
|rowspan="4"| 1996
| {{sortname|Yusuf|Jameel}}
| {{IND}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Jesús|Blancornelas}}
| {{MEX}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Daoud|Kuttab}}
| {{PSE}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Ocak Işık|Yurtçu}} and ''[[Özgür Gündem]]''
| {{TUR}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1991-1996 awards" />
|-
|rowspan="5"| 1997
| {{sortname|Christine|Anyanwu|Chris Anyanwu}}
| {{NGA}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1997 awards">{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/awards/1997/ |title=1997 Press Freedom Awards |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |archive-date=August 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075311/http://www.cpj.org/awards/1997/ |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| {{sortname|Ying|Chan|Yuen-Ying Chan}} and [[Shieh Chung-liang]]
| {{HKG-CHN}}, {{ROC-TW}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1997 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Freedom|Neruda}}
| {{CIV}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1997 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Viktor|Ivančić}}
| {{CRO}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1997 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Yelena|Masyuk}}
| {{RUS}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1997 awards" />
|-
|rowspan="5"| 1998
| {{sortname|Grémah|Boucar}}
| {{NER}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1998 awards">{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/awards/1998/ |title=International Press Freedom Awards 1998 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |archive-date=August 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075310/http://www.cpj.org/awards/1998/ |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| {{sortname|Gustavo|Gorriti}}
| {{PER}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1998 awards" />
|-
| [[Goenawan Mohamad]]
| {{IDN}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1998 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Pavel|Sheremet}}
| {{BLR}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1998 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Ruth|Simon}}
| {{ERI}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1998 awards" />
|-
| rowspan="5" | 1999
| {{sortname|Jesús Joel|Díaz Hernández}}
| {{CUB}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1999 awards">{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/awards/1999/ |title=International Press Freedom Awards 1999 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |archive-date=August 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075308/http://www.cpj.org/awards/1999/ |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| {{sortname|Jesús|Barraza Zavala}}
| {{MEX}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1999 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Baton|Haxhiu}}
| {{flag|Kosovo|UNMIK}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1999 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Jugnu|Mohsin}} and [[Najam Sethi]]
| {{PAK}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1999 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|María Cristina|Caballero}}
| {{COL}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="1999 awards" />
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2000
| {{sortname|Željko|Kopanja}}
| {{BIH}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2000 awards">{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/awards/2000/ |title=International Press Freedom Awards 2000 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075307/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2000/ |archive-date=August 28, 2012 |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| {{sortname|Modeste|Mutinga}}
| {{COD}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2000 awards"/>
|-
| {{sortname|Steven|Gan}}
| {{MYS}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2000 awards"/>
|-
| {{sortname|Mashallah|Shamsolvaezin}}
| {{IRN}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2000 awards"/>
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2001
| [[Jiang Weiping]]
| {{PRC}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2001 awards">{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/awards/2001/ |title=International Press Freedom Awards 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075306/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2001/ |archive-date=August 28, 2012 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| {{sortname|Geoffrey|Nyarota}}
| {{ZIM}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2001 awards"/>
|-
| {{sortname|Horacio|Verbitsky}}
| {{ARG}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2001 awards"/>
|-
| {{sortname|Mazen|Dana}}
| {{PSE}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2001 awards"/>
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2002
| {{sortname|Ignacio|Gómez}}
| {{COL}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2002 awards">{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/awards/2002/ |title=International Press Freedom Awards 2002 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075304/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2002/ |archive-date=August 28, 2012 |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| [[Tipu Sultan (journalist)|Tipu Sultan]]
| {{BAN}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2002 awards"/>
|-
| {{sortname|Irina|Petrushova}}
| {{KAZ}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2002 awards"/>
|-
| {{sortname|Fesshaye|Yohannes}}
| {{ERI}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2002 awards"/>
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2003
| {{sortname|Abdul Samay|Hamed}}
| {{AFG}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2003 awards">{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/awards/2003/ |title=International Press Freedom Awards 2003 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075300/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2003/ |archive-date=August 28, 2012 |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| {{sortname|Aboubakr|Jamaï}}
| {{MAR}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2003 awards"/>
|-
| {{sortname|Musa|Muradov}}
| {{RUS}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2003 awards"/>
|-
| {{sortname|Manuel|Vázquez Portal}}
| {{CUB}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2003 awards"/>
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2004
| {{sortname|Svetlana|Kalinkina}}
| {{BLR}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2004 awards">{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/awards/2004/ |title=International Press Freedom Awards 2004 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075257/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2004/ |archive-date=August 28, 2012 |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| [[Aung Pwint]] and [[Thaung Tun (filmmaker)|Thaung Tun]]
| {{BIR}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2004 awards"/>
|-
| {{sortname|Alexis|Sinduhije}}
| {{BDI}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2004 awards"/>
|-
|style="background-color:#D8BFD8"| {{sortname|Paul|Klebnikov}} {{dagger|alt=Award received posthumously}}
| {{USA}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2004 awards"/>
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2005
| {{sortname|Galima|Bukharbaeva}}
| {{UZB}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2005 awards">{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/awards/2005/ |title=International Press Freedom Awards 2005 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075255/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2005/ |archive-date=August 28, 2012 |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| {{sortname|Beatrice|Mtetwa}}
| {{ZIM}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2005 awards"/>
|-
| {{sortname|Lúcio Flávio|Pinto}}
| {{BRA}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2005 awards"/>
|-
| [[Shi Tao (journalist)|Shi Tao]]
| {{PRC}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2005 awards"/>
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2006
| {{sortname|Jesús Abad|Colorado}}
| {{COL}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2006 awards">{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/awards/2006/ |title=International Press Freedom Awards 2006 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075254/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2006/ |archive-date=August 28, 2012 |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| {{sortname|Jamal|Amer}}
| {{YEM}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2006 awards"/>
|-
| {{sortname|Madi|Ceesay}}
| {{GAM}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2006 awards"/>
|-
|style="background-color:#D8BFD8"| {{sortname|Atwar|Bahjat}} {{dagger|alt=Award received posthumously}}
| {{IRQ}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2006 awards"/>
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2007
| {{sortname|Mazhar|Abbas}}
| {{PAK}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2007 awards">{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/awards/2007/ |title=International Press Freedom Awards 2007 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |archive-date=August 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075253/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2007/ |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| {{sortname|Dmitry|Muratov}}
| {{RUS}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2007 awards"/>
|-
| {{sortname|Adela|Navarro Bello}}
| {{MEX}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2007 awards"/>
|-
| [[Gao Qinrong]]
| {{PRC}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2007 awards"/>
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2008
| {{sortname|Bilal|Hussein|dab=photojournalist}}
| {{IRQ}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2008 awards">{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/awards/2008/ |title=International Press Freedom Awards 2008 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |archive-date=August 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075250/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2008/ |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| {{sortname|Danish|Karokhel}} and [[Farida Nekzad]]
| {{AFG}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2008 awards"/>
|-
| {{sortname|Andrew|Mwenda}}
| {{UGA}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2008 awards"/>
|-
| {{sortname|Héctor|Maseda Gutiérrez}}
| {{CUB}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2008 awards"/>
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2009
| {{sortname|Mustafa Haji|Abdinur}}
| {{SOM}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2009 awards">{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/awards/2009/ |title=International Press Freedom Awards 2009 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |archive-date=August 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075247/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2009/ |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| {{sortname|Naziha|Réjiba}}
| {{TUN}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2009 awards"/>
|-
| {{sortname|Eynulla|Fatullayev}}
| {{AZE}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2009 awards"/>
|-
| {{sortname|J. S.|Tissainayagam}}
| {{LKA}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2009 awards"/>
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2010
| {{sortname|Mohammad|Davari}}
| {{IRN}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2010 awards">{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/awards/2010/ |title=International Press Freedom Awards 2010 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |archive-date=August 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120824080320/http://cpj.org/awards/2010/ |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| {{sortname|Nadira|Isayeva}}
| {{RUS}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2010 awards"/>
|-
| {{sortname|Dawit|Kebede}}
| {{ETH}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2010 awards"/>
|-
| {{sortname|Laureano|Márquez}}
| {{VEN}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2010 awards"/>
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2011
| {{sortname|Mansoor|al-Jamri||Jamri, Mansoor al}}
| {{BHR}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2011 awards">{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/awards/2011/ |title=CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2011 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828075243/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2011/ |archive-date=August 28, 2012 |access-date=August 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| {{sortname|Natalya|Radina}}
| {{BLR}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2011 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Javier|Valdez Cárdenas}}
| {{MEX}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2011 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Umar|Cheema}}
| {{PAK}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2011 awards" />
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2012
| {{sortname|Mauri|König||Konig, Mauri}}
| {{BRA}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2012 awards">{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/awards/2012/ |title=CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2011 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120922035005/http://www.cpj.org/awards/2012/ |archive-date=September 22, 2012 |access-date=September 22, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| [[Dhondup Wangchen]]
| {{CHN}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2012 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Azimzhan|Askarov}}
| {{KGZ}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2012 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Mae|Azango}}
| {{LBR}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2012 awards" />
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2013
| {{sortname|Janet|Hinostroza}}
| {{ECU}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2013 awards">{{cite web|url=http://www.cpj.org/awards/2013/ |title=CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2013 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |access-date=October 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321012852/http://cpj.org/awards/2013/ |archive-date=March 21, 2015 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| {{sortname|Bassem|Youssef}}
| {{EGY}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2013 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Nedim|Şener}}
| {{TUR}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2013 awards" />
|-
| [[Nguyễn Văn Hải]]
| {{VNM}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2013 awards" />
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2014
| {{sortname|Mikhail|Zygar}}
| {{RUS}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2014 awards">{{cite web|url=http://www.cpj.org/awards/2014/ |title=CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2014 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |access-date=October 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315073339/http://cpj.org/awards/2014/ |archive-date=March 15, 2015 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| {{sortname|Ferial|Haffajee}}
| {{ZAF}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2014 awards" />
|-
| {{sortname|Siamak|Ghaderi}}
| {{IRN}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2014 awards" />
|-
| [[Aung Zaw (editor)|Aung Zaw]]
| {{BIR}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2014 awards" />
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2015
| [[Zulkiflee Anwar Haque]]
| {{MYS}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2015 awards">{{cite web|url=http://www.cpj.org/awards/2015/|title=CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2015|publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists|access-date=September 23, 2016|archive-date=April 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415090610/https://cpj.org/awards/2015/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently]]
| {{SYR}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2015 awards" />
|-
| [[Cándido Figueredo Ruíz]]
| {{PRY}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2015 awards" />
|-
| [[Zone 9 Bloggers]]
| {{ETH}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2015 awards" />
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2016
| [[Mahmoud Abou Zeid]]
| {{EGY}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2016 awards">{{cite web|url=http://www.cpj.org/awards/2016/|title=CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2016|publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists|access-date=September 23, 2016|archive-date=April 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415090615/https://cpj.org/awards/2016/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Malini Subramaniam ]]
| {{IND}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2016 awards" />
|-
| [[Can Dündar]]
| {{TUR}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2016 awards" />
|-
| [[Óscar Martínez (journalist)|Óscar Martínez]]
| {{SLV}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2016 awards" />
|-
|rowspan="4"| 2017
| [[Pravit Rojanaphruk]]
| {{THA}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2017 awards">{{cite web|url=https://cpj.org/awards/|title=CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2017|publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists|access-date=2017-08-24|archive-date=September 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927225021/https://cpj.org/awards/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Ahmed Abba]]
| {{CMR}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2017 awards" />
|-
| [[Patricia Mayorga]]
| {{MEX}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2017 awards" />
|-
| [[Afrah Nasser]]
| {{YEM}}
|style="text-align:center" |<ref name="2017 awards" />
|-
| rowspan="4" |2018
|[[Amal Habani]]
|{{SDN}}
|<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://cpj.org/awards/2018/|title=International Press Freedom Awards 2018|publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists|access-date=2019-01-27|archive-date=January 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127095052/https://cpj.org/awards/2018/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh]]
|{{VNM}}
|<ref name=":0" />
|-
|[[Luz Mely Reyes]]
|{{VEN}}
|<ref name=":0" />
|-
|[[Anastasia Stanko]]
|{{UKR}}
|<ref name=":0" />
|-
| rowspan="4" |2019
|[[Neha Dixit]]
|{{IND}}
|<ref name="2019_awards">{{Cite web|url=https://cpj.org/awards/2019/|title=International Press Freedom Awards 2019|publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists|access-date=2019-07-20|archive-date=April 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419160308/https://cpj.org/awards/2019/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Patrícia Campos Mello]]
|{{BRA}}
|<ref name="2019_awards" />
|-
|[[Lucía Pineda Ubau]] and [[Miguel Mora (journalist)|Miguel Mora]]
|{{NIC}}
|<ref name="2019_awards" />
|-
|Maxence Melo Mubyazi
|{{TZA}}
|<ref name="2019_awards" />
|-
| rowspan="4" |2020
|[[ Shahidul Alam]]
|{{BGD}}
|<ref name="2020_awards">{{Cite web|url=https://cpj.org/awards/2020/|title=International Press Freedom Awards 2020|publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists|access-date=2021-08-23|archive-date=April 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419194350/https://cpj.org/awards/2020/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Mohammad Mosaed]]
|{{IRN}}
|<ref name="2020_awards" />
|-
|[[Dapo Olorunyomi]]
|{{NGA}}
|<ref name="2020_awards" />
|-
|[[Svetlana Prokopyeva]]
|{{RUS}}
|<ref name="2020_awards" />
|-
| rowspan="4" |2021
|[[Katsiaryna Barysevich]]
|{{BLR}}
|<ref name="2021_awards">{{Cite web|url=https://cpj.org/awards/2021/|title=International Press Freedom Awards 2021|publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists|access-date=2021-08-23|archive-date=November 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120055931/https://cpj.org/awards/2021/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Anastasia Mejía]]
|{{GUA}}
|<ref name="2021_awards" />
|-
|[[Matías Guente]]
|{{MOZ}}
|<ref name="2021_awards" />
|-
|[[Aye Chan Naing]]
|{{MMR}}
|<ref name="2021_awards" />
|-
| rowspan="4" |2022
|[[Abraham Jiménez Enoa]]
|{{CUB}}
|<ref name="2022_awards">{{Cite web|url=https://cpj.org/awards/2022/|title=International Press Freedom Awards 2022|publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists|access-date=2022-11-19|archive-date=November 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221119210227/https://cpj.org/awards/2022/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Niyaz Abdullah]]
|{{IRQ}}
|<ref name="2022_awards" />
|-
|[[Sevgil Musayeva]]
|{{UKR}}
|<ref name="2022_awards" />
|-
|[[Phạm Đoan Trang]]
|{{VIE}}
|<ref name="2022_awards" />
|-
| rowspan="4" |2023
|[[Nika Gvaramia]]
|{{GEO}}
|<ref name="2023_awards">{{Cite web |url=https://cpj.org/awards/cpjs-2023-international-press-freedom-awards/ |title=International Press Freedom Awards 2023 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |access-date=2023-11-18 |archive-date=November 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231118023717/https://cpj.org/awards/cpjs-2023-international-press-freedom-awards/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|[[Shahina K. K.]]
|{{IND}}
|<ref name="2023_awards" />
|-
|[[María Teresa Montaño]]
|{{MEX}}
|<ref name="2023_awards" />
|-
|[[Ferdinand Ayité]]
|{{TOG}}
|<ref name="2023_awards" />
|-
| rowspan="4" |2024
| [[Shrouq Al Aila]]
| {{PLE}}
| <ref name="cpjs-2024">{{cite web |url=https://cpj.org/awards/cpjs-2024-international-press-freedom-awards/ |title=CPJ’s 2024 International Press Freedom Awards |language=en |accessdate=2025-01-27 }}</ref>
|-
| [[Alsu Kurmasheva]]
| {{USA}}{{RUS}}
| <ref name="cpjs-2024" />
|-
| [[Quimy de León]]
| {{GUA}}
| <ref name="cpjs-2024" />
|-
| [[Samira Sabou]]
| {{NIG}}
| <ref name="cpjs-2024" />
|-
|}

==References==
{{Reflist|33em}}

==External links==
{{Portal|Freedom of speech}}
* {{Official website|http://cpj.org/awards/}}

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[[Category:Awards established in 1991]]
[[Category:Free expression awards]]
[[Category:American journalism awards]]
[[Category:1991 establishments in New York City]]