TV Press Freedom Media Awardees USAGM
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- TV Press Freedom Media Awardees USAGM
- November 19, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script TV Press Freedom Media Awardees HEADLINE: ‘Relentless’ Efforts of Journalists Under Fire Recognized TEASER: The International Press Freedom Awards honor media on the front lines, from Ukraine to Cuba PUBLISHED AT:11/18/22 BYLINE: VOA News CONTRIBUTOR: Myroslava Gongadze, Ihar Tsikhanenka Graham Keeley, Iryna Solomko VIDEOGRAPHER: Myroslava Gongadze, Alfonso Beato Pavlo Terekhov VIDEO EDITOR: DATELINE: Warsaw Poland, Barcelona, Spain, New York, NY SCRIPT EDITORS: Reifenrath, VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, Wires AFP, Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _X_ RADIO __ TRT: VID APPROVED BY: TYPE: TV EDITOR NOTES: For VOA Press Freedom. Questions/review to Jessica Jerreat, Ihar Production: Files are in following folders: Wires and Cuba: https://app.frame.io/projects/3a7571d0-52e9-4c82-b870-af9ea49e1d64 IPFA and IPFA SOT: https://app.frame.io/projects/ae30dd8f-b6c4-418a-b02d-530603115a58/b08d3662-117d-4304-91be-df6b1e4b3fa0 Sevgil interview and BROLL Warsaw: https://app.frame.io/projects/ae30dd8f-b6c4-418a-b02d-530603115a58/106f9bc8-9bb8-4302-814d-d4054afb4f16 )) ((INTRO)) [[The head of the Ukrainian investigative outlet Ukrainska Pravda is among the journalists recognized for their bravery in 2022 with an International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists. Ihar Tsikhanenka has more for VOA from New York City. ((Wires: AFP Shelling in Kyiv V000_323Y94D FEB 26 )) ((NARRATOR)) From the front lines of Russia’s war in Ukraine … ((BROLL: VOA shots from Gala showing Sevgil walking into ceremony, taking hand of her friend BROLL 2 00.26 to 00.35)) to a gala in New York City, Sevgil Musaieva was honored Thursday for her “relentless work” in keeping her team at Ukrainska Pravda safe and her country informed. [[BROLL Musaieva in Warsaw, walking]] Speaking with VOA in Warsaw, Poland, last week, Musaieva says the Committee to Protect Journalists’ award is recognition of the efforts of independent media across Ukraine. The war has changed how her investigative news outlet works. [[For radio, Sevgil Musaieva is editor in chief of Ukrainska Pravda.]] ((Sevgil Musaieva, Ukrainska Pravda Editor in Chief)) ((English//Female)) ((00.49—01.11)) “Before this war, we focused more on domestic issues. We covered politics, we covered corruption. We did a lot of investigations about high-level officials, for example. We covered also reforms. It has changed dramatically, because 90 percent of our coverage now is about war and coverage from the front line.” ((BROLL footage of awards)) ((NARRATOR)) The important role that independent media play globally was celebrated at the International Press Freedom Awards ceremony. [[For radio: Gulnoza Said is CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator]] ((Gulnoza Said, Committee to Protect Journalists)) ((Female//English)) ((Gulnoza Said MP4 00:10)) “We want to celebrate the fight of the journalists for greater press freedom in their countries, their work, and also the work of their teams, through them. This year, the choice was very obvious, I think. We knew that one of the awards should go to Ukrainian journalists.” ((BROLL 1 awards toward of file, city lights view and the mocked up newspaper on Vietnam awardee)) ((NARRATOR)) Alongside Musaieva, the 2022 press freedom awardees are Vietnamese blogger Pham Doan Trang, who is in jail; Iraqi Kurdistan reporter Niyaz Abdullah; and Cuba’s Abraham Jiménez Enoa. [[He goes by "Jiménez" on second reference—that's how they have it on CPJ website—Spanish names tradition]] [[BROLL Enoa in Barcelona Either COO37 and shots in apartment, making coffee, pictures on all etc or out walking in Barcelona COO43 COO50]] ((NARRATOR)) Jiménez spoke with VOA in Barcelona earlier about the pressure he came under over his coverage of human rights and the opposition. Havana authorities arrested Jiménez, forced him to make false statements on TV that he was a CIA agent, and then finally gave him an ultimatum. [[For radio: Abraham Jiménez Enoa.]] ((Abraham Jiménez Enoa, Cuban Journalist)) ((MALE, Spanish)) (( C0011/MP4 - 2.40)) “The government called me by telephone and told me I had to leave the country, or they would put me in prison and create problems for my family.” ((BROLL Cut away from Enoa interview COO25 or COO26 )) ((NARRATOR)) Although forced into exile, Jiménez says he has no regrets. (Abraham Jiménez Enoa, Cuban Journalist)) ((MALE, Spanish)) (( Timecode: 0009 Timecode: 8:51)) "I asked myself if this repression was affecting my loved ones. I felt guilty. But I carried on relating the truth because (the government) was carrying out this repression." ((BROLL Musaieva getting coffee, walking in Warsaw OR BROLL of her at gala)) ((NARRATOR)) Ukraine’s Musaieva remains similarly committed to defending the media’s right to report. She recalls interviewing people who had been trapped in occupied cities. [[For radio, Again, Sevgil Musaieva]] ((Sevgil Musaieva, Ukrainska Pravda Editor in Chief))) ((English//Female)) ((03.30-03.44)) “They told me that the hardest part during the occupation was not being without food, without electricity, without food or water. The main challenge, and it was really difficult, to be out of news all the time.” ((BROLL Musaieva working on laptop OR her at gala if that looks better)) ((NARRATOR)) With Russia’s retreat from Kherson, Ukrainians will be relying more on journalists like Musaeiva to tell their story to the world. ((Ihar Tsikhanenka, VOA News, New York City))
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date November 18, 2022 20:14 EST
- Byline Ihar Tsikhanenka
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America - English