LAHORE: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has awarded veteran journalist and Editor Dawn Zaffar Abbas with the 2019 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award for “extraordinary and sustained achievement in the cause of press freedom”. The prestigious CPJ’s Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award – previously known as the Burton Benjamin Memorial Award – was renamed in 2017 to honor a former board member who passed away in 2016. Abbas, a seasoned journalist, started his career in 1981 when he worked as a junior reporter for the Karachi-based newspaper The Star. In 1988, he began working at the Herald, a prestigious monthly magazine, as its investigative reporter. In 2010, he was named Dawn‘s editor-in-chief, replacing Abbas Nasir.

Source: Pakistan Today July 17, 2019 06:11 UTC