Kevin Sites Receives the 2006 Daniel Pearl Award
The Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone team is proud to announce that Kevin Sites has been chosen to receive the 2006 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. The Los Angeles Press Club presents the award each year in honor of Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and slain by militants in Pakistan in 2002.
By Robert Padavick, Tue Mar 7, 11:48 PM ET
Kevin Sites is proud to receive the 2006 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism.
The Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone team is proud to announce that Kevin Sites has been chosen to receive the 2006 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism.
The Los Angeles Press Club presents the award each year in honor of Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and slain by militants in Pakistan in 2002.
Portions of the Los Angeles Press Club's news release are below.
Los Angeles Press Club to Honor War Correspondent Kevin Sites at 2006 Southern California Journalism Awards
Yahoo!'s First News Correspondent to Receive 5th Annual Daniel Pearl Award for Courage
The Los Angeles Press Club has announced that Kevin Sites, war correspondent for Yahoo! News' "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone", has been chosen to receive the 2006 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism.
Past Pearl Award recipients include the late Michael Kelly of the Atlantic Monthly, Time Magazine journalists Michael Weisskopf and James Nachtwey, and investigative journalist/editor Jesus Blancornelas.
In recommending Sites for the award, Daniel Pearl's parents, Ruth and Judea, said, "His style of work, the solitary commitment to truth, the selection of the newsworthy, the focus on the human faces, and the human fate — it all mirrors the works of Danny."
Upon learning he had been selected for the Pearl Award, Sites said, "As a journalist, few things are more gratifying than being recognized by your colleagues. They are the people who live this life, who best understand the sacrifices it requires, who sometimes endure the scorn but also know the rewards of telling stories that mean something. Daniel Pearl lived that life and paid the ultimate sacrifice for it. To be honored in his name will be a constant reminder to work to his standards every day."
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