GIPA-Friedman Prize Award Ceremony
Organizer: Georgian Institute of Public Affairs
Funded through the Democracy Outreach Program,U.S. Embassy in Georgia and European Journalism Center (EJC)
June 13, 2017
Venue: Fabrika, 8 Ninoshvili, Tbilisi, Georgia
19:00 - 19:15
Opening - Nino Ivanishvili, Dean, Caucasus School of Journalism and Media Management
19:15-19:25
Performance: Freedom of Expression
19:25-19:40
Russian Intervention In US Elections, Josh Friedman, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist.
19:40-19:50
We Will Just Keep Doing Stories, Dave Bloss, Regional Editor For The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)
19:50-20:00
Overview of GIPA-Friedman Prize Contest, Margarita Antidze, Senior Correspondent, Reuters
20: 00 -
Award Ceremony for Best Journalism Work
Josh Friedman is on the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists and served as an early chair of CPJ. He is on the advisory board of the Dart Center on Journalism and Trauma. He travels frequently to Asia, Latin America and Europe to lecture on journalism. Friedman has received numerous journalism awards including the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 1985 for his coverage of the famine in Ethiopia. Four years ago, the European Journalism Center, the Dutch Foreign Ministry and the Georgian
Institute for Public Affairs created an annual prize in his name to honor excellence in journalism. Friedman retired from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014. During his years there he taught international reporting and was director of international programs and the Cabot Prizes. He reported for Newsday from 1982 until 2001. He was editor-in-chief of the Soho Weekly News in New York and a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica from 1964 to 1966.
