Q 1. He was the editor of the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and was murdered in Bogotá on 17 December 1986. He was a victim of drug trafficking mafias. In 1997 UNESCO instituted an award that honours a person, organisation or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world. Who are we talking about?
Q 2. It is a non-profit organisation that promotes and defends freedom of information and freedom of the press. It continuously monitors attacks on freedom of information worldwide. It was founded in 1985 by Robert Ménard, Rémy Loury, Jacques Molénat and Émilien Jubineau, in France. It has a consultant status at the United Nations. It compiles and publishes World Press Freedom Index. Identify the organisation.
Q3. Multimedia journalist Carlos Miller launched ‘PINAC’ and published under the trade names PINAC News dedicated to documenting police abuses throughout the United States. It focuses on rights of civilians who photograph and film police misconduct and other similar activities. He believes in the right of people to document the activities of public officials in the performance of their duties. PINAC is an abbreviation. What does it mean?
Q4. According to the dictionary, this term means someone who seeks to expose corruption of businesses or government to the public. The former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt used this term in a speech in 1906 and made it popular among the journalists. His quote was both memorable and was about William Randolph Hearst and yellow journalism. Identify the term.
Q5. He was a Hungarian war photographer and probably the greatest adventure photo journalist in history. He was embedded with Allied troops in Europe during World War II. As a Hungarian national, he was the only ‘enemy alien’ granted this access, Hungary being an Axis power. He famously said, “if your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” Who are we talking about?
Answers 1) Guillermo Cano (UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize)
2) Reporters without Borders (RWB), or Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF)
3) Photography is Not a Crime
4) Muckraker
5) Robert Capa
