International Editor of the Year Award is a prize awarded yearly to journalists and press

News media

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 editors

Editors

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 outside the United states

United States

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 by World Press Review

World Press Review

World Press Review is an independent, nonpartisan New York based magazine founded in 1974 and initially published by Stanley Foundation and Teri Schure, with an online edition which was launched in 1997...

 (Worldpress.org) magazine.

The award has been presented by World Press Review Since 1975 to an editor

Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...

 or editors outside the United States whose work, according to the magazine "best exemplifies the principles of journalism

Journalism

Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

."

According to Worldpress.org editorial, the award is granted to journalists "in recognition of enterprise, courage and leadership in advancing the freedom

Freedom of the press

Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the freedom of communication and expression through vehicles including various electronic media and published materials...

 and responsibility of the press, enhancing human rights

Human rights

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 and fostering excellence in journalism."

Award winners

• 1982 Arun Shourie
  Arun Shourie
  Arun Shourie is an Indian journalist, author, intellectual and politician. He has been an economist with the World Bank , a consultant to the Planning Commission, India, editor of the Indian Express and Times of India and a minister in the government of India . He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay...
  
  , editor of Indian Express in India
  India
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• 1983 Gershom Schocken
  Gershom Schocken
  Gershom Gustav Schocken was an Israeli journalist and politician who was editor of Haaretz for more than 50 years and a member of the Knesset for the Progressive Party between 1955 and 1959.-Biography:...
  
  , editor of Haaretz
  Haaretz
  Haaretz is Israel's oldest daily newspaper. It was founded in 1918 and is now published in both Hebrew and English in Berliner format. The English edition is published and sold together with the International Herald Tribune. Both Hebrew and English editions can be read on the Internet...
  
   in Israel
  Israel
  The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
  
• 1999 Paul Kamara
  Paul Kamara
  Paul Kamara is a Sierra Leonean journalist, football manager, and cabinet minister.-Background:Kamara was born on 12 August 1956 in Kambia District, Sierra Leone. He is Catholic and a former priest, and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sierra Leone...
  
  , editor of For Di People
  For Di People
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  in Sierra Leone
  Sierra Leone
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• 2004 Shukria Barakzai
  Shukria Barakzai
  Shukria Barakzai is an Afghan politician, journalist and entrepreneur, and a prominent Muslim feminist.-Early life:She was born in 1972 in Kabul, Afghanistan...
  
  , founder of Aina-E-Zan (Women’s Mirror), a weekly newspaper in Afghanistan
  Afghanistan
  Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
  
   that campaigns for women's rights
  Women's rights
  Women's rights are entitlements and freedoms claimed for women and girls of all ages in many societies.In some places these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behaviour, whereas in others they may be ignored or suppressed...
  
  .
• 2005-6 Three Mexican
  Mexican people
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   journalists, Raúl Gibb Guerrero, Dolores Guadalupe García Escamilla and Alfredo Jiménez Mota.

External links

• http://www.worldpress.org/
• http://www.worldpress.org/award.cfm
• List of receipents from 1975-2004, http://www.worldpress.org/award2.cfm