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The
Special
Award 2014 Winner

The Special Award 2014

Alan Rusbridger
Yavuz Baydar
The Guardian and censored, United Kingdom and Turkey
In addition to awards for reporting, investigation,innovation and commentary, the judges this year made two special awards for valor and professionalism in defending the values of a free press. They go to:
Alan Rusbridger - editor of The Guardian and He endured many months of official threats and denunciations to publish the basic facts of Edward Snowden files with cool precision and much eloquence in argument.
Yavu Baydar - sacked as ombudsman of the Istanbul daily Sabah for his outspoken - and censored - criticism of the paper’s Gezi Park riot.
In making the award to Alan Rusbridger, the judges commended also the fine performance of Wolfgang Buchner of Der Spiegel and of other European editors who brought “scrupulous standards of factual scrutiny and calm judgment to contentious revelations with courage and determination in resisting suppression."
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