Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism
The Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism purports to honor journalists "who continue to tell challenging truths in difficult times".[1]
Funded byAssociation for Investment in Popular Action Committees and private donations, the Serena Shim Award has come under question for it's independence from the former Bashar al-Assad regime of Syria[2] and Pro-Kremlin[3] propaganda by supporting bloggers on the left and right of the political media landscape.[4]
History
[edit]The Award was established to honor Serena Shim, a journalist who died in a car crash in 2014. Shim had worked for PressTV and Iranian National news outlet.[5]
Funding
[edit]The Award comes with a cash prize of around 5,000 US Dollars with the value of total prizes awarded esitmated at over a quarter million dollars.[6] While funding sources are not disclosed investigations have revealed close ties to the Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees.[7]. Researchers from Bellingcat found that the Sera Shim Award and Association share the same web servers. Further tax records to awardees list Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees as the source of income.[8]
Awardees
[edit]Based on list published by the Serena Shim Award website, past winners include:
- Dimitri Lascaris
- Patrick Henningsen
- Rachel Blevins
- Ahmed Kaballo
- Belén Fernández
- John Pilger
- Garland Nixon
- George Galloway
- Camila Escalante
- Christelle Néant
- Ollie Vargas
- Antiwar.com
- Scott Ritter
- Kim Ives
- Jeremy Kuzmarov
- Brian Berletic
- Oscar Leon
- Alina Lipp
- George Eliason
- Kit Klarenberg
- Jackson Hinkle
- Dan Kovalik
- Ajit Singh
- Ambassador Peter Ford
- Consortium News
- Alan MacLeod
- Richard Medhurst
- Danny Haiphong
- Margaret Kimberley
- Glen Ford
- Steven Sahiounie, Mideast Discourse
- The Grayzone
- Ryan Cristian, The Last American Vagabond
- Ben Norton
- Anya Parampil
- Aaron Maté
- Rick Sterling
- Dan Cohen
- South Front
- Alastair Crooke
- Kim Iversen
- Caitlin Johnstone
- name deleted at request of recipient
- Ajamu Baraka
- Julian Assange
- Black Agenda Report
- Sharmine Narwani
- Information Clearing House
- Venezuela Analysis
- Resumen Latinoamericano
- Dilyana Gaytandzhieva
- Finian Cunningham
- Gareth Porter
- Kevork Almassian/Syriana Analysis
- Moon of Alabama
- Whitney Webb
- MintPress News
- Max Blumenthal
- The Jimmy Dore Show
- Rania Khalek
- Vanessa Beeley
- Eva Bartlett[9]
External Links
[edit][1]https://serenashimaward.org/
References
[edit]- ^ "Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism". Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism. Retrieved 2025-01-14.
- ^ "The 'Echo Chamber' of Syrian Chemical Weapons Conspiracy Theorists - New Lines Magazine". web.archive.org. 2021-11-04. Retrieved 2025-01-14.
- ^ Center, G. E. GEC Special Report: August 2020 Pillars of Russia’s Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem.
- ^ Davis, Charles (2019-09-30). "Pro-Assad Lobby Group Rewards Bloggers On Both The Left And The Right". bellingcat. Retrieved 2025-01-14.
- ^ "Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism". Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism. Retrieved 2025-01-14.
- ^ "The 'Echo Chamber' of Syrian Chemical Weapons Conspiracy Theorists - New Lines Magazine". web.archive.org. 2021-11-04. Retrieved 2025-01-14.
- ^ Davis, Charles (2019-09-30). "Pro-Assad Lobby Group Rewards Bloggers On Both The Left And The Right". bellingcat. Retrieved 2025-01-14.
- ^ "Messing with the Truth: Disinformation in the West Spread by Eva Karene Bartlett". voxukraine.org. Retrieved 2025-01-14.
- ^ "Laureates". Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism. 2019-03-05. Retrieved 2025-01-14.