Risky times for hard news and views

Risky times for hard news and views
By Clarence Page
November 30, 2005


NEW YORK CITY. -- After this year's International Press Freedom Awards dinner, a former reporter remarked to me the honorees' inspiring stories made her "think about getting back into real journalism again," with her accent on "real."
"Me, too," I responded spontaneously, feeling unusually humbled by the realities of many of our overseas colleagues. It's been a rough year for American journalists. But things could be worse; we could be trying to work in China, Zimbabwe, Uzbekistan or rural Brazil.
In those countries, death, jail, beatings, exile or intimidation color daily working conditions of this year's recipients of the Press Freedom Awards, given by the Committee to Protect Journalists, of which I am a board member.

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