Winner of last last year’s Hodson Award, New Zealander Kiraan Chetty. Nominations are open for the annual Harry Hodson award, given by the Commonwealth Round Table for a written piece of work by an undergraduate or postgraduate student from a university in the Commonwealth. The winner receives a £1000 cash prize and publication of their […]
READ MOREPatsy Robertson, the dedicated link between journalists and the Commonwealth
cja-association August 24, 2020 0 COMMENTSBy Richard Bourne The death of Patsy Robertson on August 18, only two years after the death of her friend Derek Ingram, is a reminder of how much Commonwealth journalism owes to a handful of stalwarts who see enduring value in the Commonwealth and the power of free, honest expression. However unlike Derek, Patsy, a […]
READ MOREApplications for the Journalist Fellowship Programme at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism are now open. The programme, based at the University of Oxford, is one of the world’s leading schemes for practising, mid-career journalists to take some time out from their day jobs to explore journalism in depth. Most of the Journalist […]
READ MOREKailash Budhwar, acclaimed broadcaster who guided BBC Hindi service
cja-association July 15, 2020 0 COMMENTSBy William Crawley CJA members will have heard the sad news of the death of Kailash Budhwar, former head of the BBC Hindi Service who had been a keen and regular member of the CJA almost since it was formed. He had already been missed from CJA meetings in the months before lockdown and we […]
READ MOREOne of the leading campaigners for media rights in west Africa, Chief Foanyi Nkemayang Paul, has died in hospital in Limbe, Cameroon. He was publisher of The Star newspaper, which he founded in 1991, CJA-Cameroon President and CJA Vice President for Africa. Known as one of the pillars of journalism in Anglophone Cameroon, […]
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