1996 Awards – Yurtcu
There was little for Turkish editor Ocak Isik Yurtçu to celebrate last July 24, Journalists Day in Turkey. “Nobody in the world has been sentenced to so many years in prison for articles others have written,”he said from his jail cell in an interview with the daily Yeni Yuzyil. Yurtcu, former editor in chief of…
1996 Burton Award – Sulzberger
| Send Letter of Appeal | Case Index | CPJ Website | 1996 Burton Benjamin Memorial Award Honoree ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER Chairman and Chief Executive Officer The New York Times Company Twenty-five years ago Arthur Ochs Sulzberger made a decision that profoundly strengthened the free American press. He decided that The New York Times should…