Award of Merit to bianets Ayca Orer
Ayca Orer of bianet is awarded the journalist of the year in Internet category by the Contemporary Journalists Association. Orers article on the medias one-sided coverage of security forces operation into prison facilites brought her the award.
The jury deems worthy Orer's article, which criticized mainstream media's coverage of security forces' operation into prison facilities which left 32 people dead in 2000.
Titled "Media Accomplices the Operation", Orer interrogates four journalists who covered the operation back then.
All expressed that media made a one-sided, unbalanced coverage and approached the incident from the official point of view of the state.
ÇGD awards went to 42 journalists working in different domains.
The association also honored Cuban leader Fidel Castro for "his constant and determined struggle for independence against imperialism and colonialism". (EÜ)
Bia news center - İstanbul
17 January 2007, Wednesday