The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) announced the winners of the 2024 International Press Freedom Award, including Guatemalan journalist Quimy de León, co-founder of the news agency specializing in environmental and human rights issues Prensa Comunitaria. The award is given to journalists who have "withstood extraordinary challenges to continue reporting on their communities."
De León's work at Prensa Comunitaria has led to relentless threats from corporate and governmental forces, CPJ said in a Sept. 19 statement. In 2017, De León founded Ruda, a feminist digital magazine devoted to sexual and reproductive rights.
The organization will also award Shrouq Al Aila, a journalist covering the conflict in the Gaza Strip (Palestine); Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist and editor for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Russia, United States); and Samira Sabou, a freelance investigative journalist (Niger), CPJ said. In addition, the organization will posthumously honor Christophe Deloire, who was director general of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), with the 2024 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award.
The awards will be presented in New York City on November 21.
