Golden Pen of Freedom til medieleder fra Myanmar
Than Htut Aung, leder for Eleven Media Group i Myanmar, ble i dag tildelt Golden Pen of Freedom for 2013, under World Newspaper Congress/World Editors Forum i Bangkok.
Than Htut Aung og Eleven Media Group, er kjent for sin kompromissløse holdning til sensur og sin sterke dedikasjon til demokratiske rettigheter. "I have my own strong set of principles for how to conduct business in the media, and despite everything I’ve never changed these,” sa Aung i sin takketale. “I always resisted the harassment and defended my journalism, my ethics, my standards. No matter what the military regime tried to do, I never let them touch these principles." Her kan du lese mer om tildelingen og de ulike talene.