Serena Shim Award
 Serena Shim Award    | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Interest of | • Brian Berletic • George Eliason • George Galloway • Jackson Hinkle • Kit Klarenberg • Jeremy Kuzmarov • Alina Lipp • Garland Nixon • Scott Ritter |
| Honours non-mainstream journalists who continue to tell challenging truths in difficult times. | |
The Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism is a Prize honouring independent journalists who continue to tell challenging truths in difficult times.
About The Award
Awarded by the Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees, the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism is an umbrella non-profit based in the San Francisco area, with some connections to the Syria Solidarity Movement. Paul Larudee, the group’s treasurer, describes himself as a former US government advisor to Saudi Arabia and Palestine activists.[1]
The funds provided by this Award, a cash amount in the range US$2500–5000[2], is meant to "enable these courageous journalists to continue their work in an environment that penalises them for their clarity of vision and willingness to expose the powerful."[3]
Honouring Serena Shim
Serena Shim (1985-2014) was an American journalist working for Iranian broadcaster Press TV. Reporting from the Turkish-Syrian border, she reported about fighters from ISIS crossing from Turkey into Syria, disguised in trucks carrying the symbols of NGOs and the World Food Programme. Serena told her employers that she was threatened by Turkish intelligence and accused of espionage. Two days later, she was suddenly killed in a suspicious car accident in October 2014, the circumstances of which have remained murky since that time. When she was threatened by the Turkish intelligence, she continued to report despite her well-founded fears, and paid the ultimate price for her uncompromised integrity in journalism.
Bellingcat
Bellingcat described the Serena Shim Award as "a shadowy group that supports Syrian dictator Bashar-al Assad is giving thousands of dollars" to fellow travellers - "far-right activists, conspiracy websites, YouTube personalities, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange."[4]
The Bellingcat attention means that the Prize has been thoroughly searched by Western intelligence agencies, and that they have come up with nothing illegal, even filing errors.
Awardees
- Garland Nixon
- George Galloway
- Camila Escalante
- Christelle Néant
- Ollie Vargas
- Antiwar.com
- Scott Ritter
- Kim Ives
- Jeremy Kuzmarov
- Brian Berletic
- Oscar Leon
- Alina Lipp
- George Eliason
- Kit Klarenberg
- Jackson Hinkle
- Dan Kovalik
- Ajit Singh
- Ambassador Peter Ford
- Consortium News
- Alan MacLeod
- Richard Medhurst
- Danny Haiphong
- Margaret Kimberley
- Glen Ford
- Steven Sahiounie, Mideast Discourse
- The Grayzone
- Ryan Cristian, The Last American Vagabond
- Ben Norton
- Anya Parampil
- Aaron Maté
- Rick Sterling
- Dan Cohen
- South Front
- Alastair Crooke
- Kim Iversen
- Caitlin Johnstone
- name deleted at request of recipient
- Ajamu Baraka
- Julian Assange
- Black Agenda Report
- Sharmine Narwani
- Information Clearing House
- Venezuela Analysis
- Resumen Latinoamericano
- Dilyana Gaytandzhieva
- Finian Cunningham
- Gareth Porter
- Kevork Almassian/Syriana Analysis
- Moon of Alabama
- Whitney Webb
- MintPress News
- Max Blumenthal
- The Jimmy Dore Show
- Rania Khalek
- Vanessa Beeley
- Eva Bartlett[5]
References
- ↑ https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/09/30/pro-assad-lobby-group-rewards-bloggers-on-both-the-left-and-the-right/comment-page-2/
- ↑ https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/09/30/pro-assad-lobby-group-rewards-bloggers-on-both-the-left-and-the-right/comment-page-2/
- ↑ https://serenashimaward.org/
- ↑ https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/09/30/pro-assad-lobby-group-rewards-bloggers-on-both-the-left-and-the-right/comment-page-2/
- ↑ "Laureates of the Serena Shim Award"
