In the PR World we have a ‘difficult to define’ relationship with journalists – we hate it when they don’t publish our puff pieces and love them to bits when they do.
In any event journalism as an industry is under threat and it is behove upon us as PR Professionals to support and promote the journalism industry upon which we rely more than we will admit.
So, MYPR does a weekly feature on journalists along with giving journalists the OPTION to promote their work via a FREE FEATURED JOURNALIST SUBMISSION on MyPR of their latest article – we are not asking the journalist to just post a few sentences or paragraphs but also to give a personal narrative about their article and why they wrote it.
That submission form is at the bottom of this article or can be found HERE.
In addition to the above MyPR also has a dedicated section where journalists can request the help of an expert.
These articles about journalists popped up this past week:
Journalism Awards:
Columbia Scholastic Press Association awards El Estoque with highest honor: El Estoque was awarded a Gold Crown on Friday, March 21 by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, the highest award the association grants. CSPA, a Columbia University-operated association aimed at educating and guiding student journalists and their educators, grants the award is granted to several student publications, yearbooks and literary magazines from around the U.S. every year. Members of El Estoque’s staff claimed the certificate in person at the CSPA Conference from March 17 to 21 at Columbia University, where adviser Julia Satterthwaite also accepted her award for National High School Journalism Adviser of the Year.
Tele journalist up for press award: Gordon McCracken has been nominated for a top prize at this year’s Scottish Press Awards. Gordon is one of five reporters from across Scotland shortlisted for the Regional Journalist of the Year accolade at this year’s ceremony.
Toronto Star journalists receive CAJ nominations for excellence in investigative reporting: Five Toronto Star journalists have been nominated for this year’s Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) awards honouring excellence in investigative reporting.
The Star journalists are among a number of reporters with the Torstar family who have been nominated across seven different categories.
In March, the Star also received 15 nominations for this year’s National Newspaper Awards related to coverage of the rainstorm that flooded Toronto last summer, the complicated legacy of Alice Munro and Canada’s “exploitative clinical trial industry,” among other stories.
ST’s multimedia story on stateless individuals bags top prize at SPH journalism awards: Two months after The Straits Times featured him in a multimedia report about stateless individuals and the challenges they face, Mr Ricqo Rafiezuwan became a permanent resident in Singapore.
The 25-year-old also landed a job as an operation executive after more than 80 people contacted ST and the family service centre that supports him to offer their help.
For the impact that their work had on Mr Rafiezuwan, and for raising awareness about the plight of stateless individuals here, the team behind the multimedia story bagged the inaugural Editor-in-Chief Award at SPH Media’s annual English, Malay and Tamil Media (EMTM) Group awards ceremony on April 4.
UL journalism students secure multiple nominations at national media awards: Journalism students at University of Limerick have secured 12 nominations at the National Student Media Awards.
Limerick Voice, the award-winning multimedia news platform, has been shortlisted in several different categories including, Best Newspaper, Best Layout and Design and Website of the Year. The Magazine ‘Eclectic’, produced by second year journalism students, has also been nominated for Magazine of the Year.
Limerick Voice newspaper and online editor Jack McKay and Magdalena Tanneberger have both been nominated for Editor of the Year. Sports reporter John O’Donnell has been nominated for Sportswriter of the year along with Jack McKay and fourth year journalism student Leah Hogarty and Alison Reeves have been shortlisted for Podcast of the Year. Features Editor, Annemarie Roberts and multimedia reporters Emma McCarthy and Alan White were nominated in the category ‘Journalism Relating to Health.’
‘Fisayo Soyombo’s Burkina Faso Investigation Longlisted for 2nd Global Prize in 3 Months: ‘Fisayo Soyombo, founder/editor-in-chief of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), is on the 10-man longlist for the 2025 edition of One World Media’s Journalist of the Year award.
It is the third time in six years that he has been longlisted for the award, previously known as the International Journalist of the Year (IJOY), having been consecutively longlisted for the award in 2020 and in 2021. On both occasions, he went ahead to earn a place on the three-man shortlist, before seeing the award go to BBC’s John Sudworth and Drew Ambrose of Al Jazeera English respectively.
This year, Soyombo is joined on the longlist by Asami Terajima of The Kyiv Independent, Claudia Smolansky of Latin American investigative network Connectas, Kenyan Cynthia Gichiri of Africa Uncensored, the BBC’s Mohamed Shalaby and Roli Srivastava of The Migration Story.
Glidden native earns journalism award for work at Buena Vista University: A multidisciplinary storyteller from Glidden was recently recognized for his journalistic skills.
Carter Soyer, a Glidden-Ralston High School alumni, was awarded the Pat Pisarik Student Journalist of the Year through the Iowa College Media Association (ICMA) awards ceremony.
The Pat Pisarik Student Journalist of the Year award is given to an outstanding journalist serving collegiate media. The award was named in honor of the late Pat Pisarik, who was a founding member of ICMA and a longtime journalism professor at Loras College in Dubuque.
Soyer is currently a senior studying digital media at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake. He anticipates graduating this upcoming December.
$15,000 for North Carolina’s best investigative reporting: The A-Mark Prize for Investigative Journalism will award a first-place prize of $5,000 to the winning journalist and $2,500 to their news organization. Second place awards $3,000 to the journalist and $1,500 to the news organization. Third place awards $2,000 to the journalist and $1,000 to the newsroom.
Namibian journalists shine at One Economy Foundation’s media awards: The Namibian print, digital media and radio journalists scooped awards at One Economy Foundation’s media awards in Windhoek on Friday.
Journalists were awarded on their efforts in impactful reporting of sexual reproductive health, gender-based violence and mental health.
The Namibian’s Shelleygan Petersen emerged as the winner of the print category with ‘Workplaces fail nursing mothers’, followed by The Namibian’s Tracy Tafirenyika with ‘Police investigate student sex exploitation’.
Tough Times Ahead:
Norman C. Miller, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, dies at age 90: Miller died at his Pasadena home on March 29 after battling chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure, according to his son Scott.
Miller, a devout Catholic, is survived by his children Charlie, Mary Ellen Wasson and Scott, as well as eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. His wife, Mollie, and daughter Teresa died a few years ago.
Journalism’s Reinvention Is Happening—Just Not Where You Think: News runs on a basic narrative: villains and heroes, an Aristotelian three-act structure. Observers now put the media business well into act three, near the desperate end. The villain, again, is technology. The majority of ad dollars that powered newspapers for generations have been hoovered up by platforms like Google and Meta and X. Media consultant Matthew Goldstein, writing in the Press Gazette, doesn’t mince words when describing what’s coming: an “extinction-level event” for news publishers and broadcasters. In 2023, Bell Canada Enterprises eliminated 1,300 jobs, including a 6 percent cut at Bell Media, which owns CTV. Global News in Canada slashed thirty-five jobs in 2024, and the following month, its parent, Corus Entertainment, announced it was laying off another 300 people. By now, vis-à-vis income and job security, it makes more sense to be a poet or blacksmith than a journalist.
VOA Journalists Receive Career Support: Times have been tough for the dedicated journalists at Voice of America. The Trump Administration’s decision to end federal grant funding to the U.S. Agency for Global Media led to a shutdown of VOA and a massive furlough of all staff. It happened in just a matter of days and was shocking.
When newsrooms shrink, we all lose: In my four decades as a journalist in Chicago, I had the privilege of witnessing and reporting on the vibrant tapestry of our city — business, education, neighborhood issues and politics. The good, bad and ugly.
Journalists Under Threat:
Protection Orders Being Used to Silence Journalists and Activists: Companies and state officials are increasingly abusing protection orders to try to stop journalists and activists from doing their work.
When journalist Bongani Hans of Independent Newspaper received a protection order last week to stop him publishing allegations against a Durban solar energy company, it was the ninth recent case to enlist such an order to gag journalists, activists and whistleblowers.
Companies and state officials are increasingly abusing protection orders to try to stop journalists and activists from doing their work, cynically accusing them of harassment and invasion of privacy.
As well as the Hans case, the Campaign for Free Expression has recorded these others…
How a U.S. journalist survived assassination plots by Iran: Earlier this month, two men were convicted in a plot to kill Masih Alinejad, an Iranian American journalist and women’s rights activist living in New York. Her attempted assassination was orchestrated by the Iranian government, part of more than a decade of violent plots targeting its critics abroad. Lisa Desjardins speaks with Alinejad about how she sees these times in the U.S. and Iran.
Goldberg on risk of legal action from Trump administration: ‘I don’t get bullied’: Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor in chief, brushed off the risk of a legal threat from the Trump administration after he reported on a Signal group chat featuring top Trump administration officials.
“Jeffrey, I don’t have to tell you this, the administration has taken legal action against news organizations,” NBC News’s Kristen Welker said Sunday on “Meet the Press,” following clips of Trump administration officials slamming Goldberg. “Are you concerned that this administration will come after you?”
Colombian journalist threatened for reporting on possible corruption: “In a speech before the Departmental Assembly [of Santander], Representative David Castrillón filed a delicate complaint. He stated that journalist Domingo Navarro, from Cimitarra, [department of] Santander, had received death threats ‘for reporting alleged acts of corruption.’
The deputy, from the Independent Social Alliance Political Party (ASI, for its initials in Spanish) and People in Movement, said in his statement that this threat is allegedly due to the journalist’s complaints about the health crisis the municipality is experiencing.”
Accolades for Journalists:
Sir Keir Starmer praises local and regional journalism: PRIME Minister Sir Keir Starmer paid tribute to the local and regional media at a special reception at 10 Downing Street on Monday.
Around 100 journalists from across the UK attended the prestigious event, including Tristan Harris, the head of editorial at Bullivant Media Group Ltd and the editor of the Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Standards.
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