Online startup wins press freedom award for coverage of COVID’s impact on ‘neglected’ Peel Region

The crowd gave standing ovations to keynote speaker Maria Ressa, speaking remotely while out on bail for charges in the Philippines, and two Afghan journalists who have worked for The Globe and Mail for years.

Journalist Fatima Syed, addressing the room after receiving the 2022 Press Freedom Award alongside editor and publisher Tai Huynh, said 'the absence of journalism is also an issue of press freedom.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

May 3, 2022

The Local freelance reporter Fatima Syed and editor Tai Huynh have been named joint winners of the 2022 Press Freedom Award for their coverage of the effects COVID had on immigrants and frontline workers in Ontario’s Peel Region, just outside of Toronto. Syed and Huynh, who is also publi...

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