Joe Lauria editor-in-chief of Consortium News, talks before presenting the, Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award, posthumously, to John Pilger (1939 - 2023), handed to Pilger’s partner Jane Hill in the presence of John Pilger’s son Sam Pilger and granddaughter. Joe Lauria tells us that he was able to inform John Pilger that he had won the award before his death the previous year. Further he outlines the rarity, history and high significance the Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award for John Richard Pilger, journalist, filmmaker, author, for a lifetime of exposing injustice / afflicting the powerful and defending Press Freedom in his films, books and articles. Presented by the Consortium for Independent Journalism publishers of Consortium. To Joe Lauria’s left seated is Ken Loach film and television director, Victoria Brittain editor and journalist, Christopher Hird who produced the last four of John Pilger’s films at Dartmouth Films, Richard Creasey, former head of documentaries at ATV Central Independent TV, and Anthony Hayward, host, journalist and author. British Film Institute, London, 28 Oct 2024
Date: 28/10/2024
Location: Southbank, London, UK
Photographer: Richard Keith Wolff
