AFPC-USA: 2024 Press Freedom Forum (Washington, DC)

Protecting a Free Press from Ever-Growing Dangers
WASHINGTON --The Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the USA (AFPC-USA) honored Jonathan Karl of ABC News with its 2024 Press Freedom Award and presented two Russian exiled journalists with Press Freedom Grants at its forum this year marking World Press Freedom Day.
Some 100 journalists, corporate partners, leaders of foundations and NGOs attended this year’s event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., with a focus on protecting journalists from ever-growing dangers around the globe and highlighting the increasing numbers forced into exile simply for doing their jobs.
The AFPC-USA awarded two Press Freedom Grants to exiled Russian journalists Mikhail Rubin and Elizaveta Kirpanova, both of whom had to leave their homes and country because of the dangers they faced for writing the truth about Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
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