Daoud Kuttab: One of 60 World Press Freedom Heroes

Daoud Kuttab: One of 60 World Press Freedom Heroes

Vienna- The International Press Institute will honor, Monday, journalist Daoud Kuttab as one of 60 world press heroes as part of its 60th annual celebrations held in the Austrian capital, Vienna.

Kuttab will be joined with regional journalists Mai Chediack from Lebanon and Nizar Nayouf from Syria as well as Israeli journalist Amira Hass.

Reflecting on the award Kuttab said that there are many Arab journalists who are the true press freedom heroes. "While I may have been recognised because I am known, there are many Arab journalists who have sacrificed financially, bodily as well as with their own lives for their press efforts. They are the true heroes in our part of the world."

Kuttab started his journalistic career in Jerusalem working with the newspapers Al Fajr and AL Quds. He has also helped set up Amin.org web site and al Quds Educational TV. Kuttab was detained by the Israelis and the Palestinians for his journalistic work.

In 2000 he set up the world's first internet radio station, AmmanNet. He is the director general of COmmunity Media Network, a not for profit media organisation working in JOrdan and Palestine. He is a regular columnist in local and international media outlets. His lastest column appeared in the Washington Post last week.


list of 60 world press heroes
http://www.freemedia.at/awards/world-press-freedom-heroes/

“The Heroes of the IPI demonstrate that in spite of every obstacle and every constraint the truth ultimately prevails and is made known. The spread of democracy is relentless. And that freedom is an eternal goal for men and women everywhere. The editors and publishers you honour today and on whose behalf I have the great honour to speak, have played an essential and inspiring role in helping the people of their countries and the world achieve that freedom.”- Katharine Graham, IPI World Congress and Celebration of the 50th Anniversary, Boston, 2000.