Foreign Press Association
The Foreign Press Association ( FPA ) in 11 Carlton House Terrace , London , is a Foreign Correspondents' Club.
It is a umbrella organization for foreign journalists,[a] offering support, social events, and a venue for press briefings in London.
History
[edit]- The FPA was founded in 1888 and claims to be one of the oldest clubs for foreign correspondents in the world.[1] The organization has 700 members representing around 1,000 media from some 70 countries.[2]
- In 1913 it was merged with the Society of Foreign Journalists.
Chair
[edit]- 1888-1911: Gabriel de Wesselitzky »Novoye Vremya (newspaper)«
- 1911-1919:Joseph Louis Condurier de Chassaigne, Le Figaro[3]
- 1936-1940 Adalbert de Segonzac [4]
- 1941-1942: Gabriel Keller[5]
- 1943 to 1950: Andrew Rothstein
- 1960: Claude Veillet - Lavallee France-Soir
- 1964: Nasim Ahmed ( Al - Jamhour Al - Jadid , Beirut , El Gomhouria)
- 1969-1971: Henry Gustav Alexander (1914-1986) [6]
- 1974-1982: Claus Toksvig
- 1983-1988: Roland Hill (journalist)[7]
- 2006 to 2007 Annalisa Piras was the first Italian president of the London Foreign Press Association[8]
- 2007–2009: Nazenin Ansari
- 2011: Mustapha Karkouti (*October 3 , 1943 at Latakia , Syria)
- 2014: Paola Totaro
- Jan. 2018-14 January 2020: Bénédicte Paviot
- 2020-2021: Kate McCure, Australian Media
- 2022: Daniel Faitaua
- 2023: Dagmar Seeland (* September 1964), Stern Magazine, Germany
The Foreign Press Association Media Awards
[edit]'Dialogue of Cultures'
[edit]- 2006: photojournalist Gabriele Torsello, known as 'Kash'. Making his first public appearance since being released by the Taleban on 3 November.
TV News Story of the Year
[edit]- 2010: Nick Martin, Mexican Girls, Channel 4 News
- 2024: Yousef Hammash, Inside the Gaza Siege, Channel 4 News
- 2024: Stuart Ramsay, Toby Nash, Dominique Van Heerden, The struggle to reach America, Sky News
- 2024: Darshna Soni, Undercover inside Reform UK's campaign, Channel 4 News
TV Feature/Documentary
[edit]- 2010: Antony Thomas, Saeed Kamali Dehghan, For Neda, Mentorn and HBO
- 2024: Daniele Hamamdjian, Kieron O’Dea, Marc D’Amours, Inside the ‘Little Gaza’ of the West Bank, & Living under Israeli Lockdown in Hebron, Global News, Canada
- 2024: Tiziana Prezzo, Child Slavery in the UK
Radio
[edit]- 2010: Tim Whewell, Keith Morris, Crossing Continents: Uganda, BBC Radio Current Affairs
- 2024: Gabi Biesinger, 85 years of “Kindertransport” to Great Britain, ARD, German Radio
Financial/Economic Story of the Year
[edit]- 2010: James Sterngold, Who Cares About Another $200 Million, Bloomberg Businessweek
- 2024: Alaric Nightingale, Julian Lee, Alex Longley, Angus Bennett, Leila Hussain, Russia’s Shadow Fleet, Bloomberg, David Collins, Will Roe
- 2024: Cocaine Inc: how British drugs cash is turned into solid gold in Dubai, The Sunday Times Magazine
- 2024: Amanda Chicago Lewis, Secrets of a ransomware negotiator, 1843 Magazine
- 2024: Fatima Lianes, Fanon Kabwe, Diego Barrero, Fran Pigni, Dying Earth – Beyond the Oil Age, Al Jazeera English
Environment
[edit]- 2010: Lindsey Hilsum, Rare Earth, China, Channel 4 News
- 2024: Jenny Kleeman, Why are so many young people getting cancer?, The Sunday Times Magazine
- 2024: Callum Macrae, Mark Williams, People & Power – A Crude Mistake?, Al Jazeera English
- 2024: Grace Malie, Tuvalu: Losing Paradise
Web Innovation
[edit]- 2010: BBC News website Election 2010 team, General Election Live, BBC News Website
Sports
[edit]- 2010: Alex Perry, Playing the Rebel Game, TIME
Travel/Tourism Story of the Year
[edit]- 2010: Horatio Clare, Rock of Ages, Conde Nast Traveller
- 2024: Miles Johnson, What happened to Russia's seized superyachts?, Financial Times,
- 2024: David Rose, 11,000 metres from daylight -- the inside story of the remotest ever cave dive, The Sunday Times Magazine
- 2024: Sue-Lin Wong, The cruise that will get you chased by the Chinese coastguard, 1843 Magazine
Feature Print/Web
[edit]- 2010: Dan McDougall, The Return of the Bloody Diamonds, Live Magazine, Mail on Sunday
Print & Web News
[edit]- 2010: Ed Crooks, BP: Inside Story, Financial Times, FT Weekend Magazine
- 2024: Mark MacKinnon, The Fearless, The Globe & Mail, Canada
- 2024: Michael Neudecker, Die Wut der Abgehängten (The anger of those left behind), Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany
- 2024: Niels Posthumus, Merlin Daleman 'De brexit heeft een aanzuigende werking op bootmigranten' ('Brexit has a pull effect on boat migrants'), Trouw, Netherlands
Woman Journalist of the Year
[edit]- 2010: Marie Colvin, Swift and Bloody: the Taliban's revenge, The Sunday Times
PRINT&WEB News Story of the Year
[edit]- 2024: Will Coldwell, A teenaged migrant piloted a dinghy that sank in the Channel. Then he was charged with manslaughter, Prospect
- 2024: Stephen Grey, Maayan Lubell, Ryan McNeill, Hunted by Hamas, Reuters
- 2024: Neggeen Sadid, Why I opened a secret school for Afghan girls, 1843 Magazine
RADIO/PODCAST of the Year
[edit]- 2024: Chloe Hadjimatheou, Claudia Williams, Hannah Varrall, Gary Marshall, Jasper Corbett, The Gas Man, Tortoise Media
- 2024: Fiona Hamilton, David Collins, Stephen Drill, Cocaine Inc., The Times, The Sunday Times & News Corp Australia
- 2024: Poonam Taneja, Bloodlines, BBC Asian Network, BBC Sounds, CBC Podcasts
FPA Member
[edit]- 2010: Catherine Mayer, Here Comes the Junior Partner, TIME
Journalist of the Year
[edit]- 2006: Dominic Waghorn of Sky News, for his report "China: Human Rights", in which interviewees risked their lives and Waghorn was physically assaulted three times to get his extraordinary report.
- 2010: Antony Thomas, Saeed Kamali Dehghan, For Neda, Mentorn and HBO
See also
[edit]- Hollywood Foreign Press Association: 1943-June 12, 2023 rebranded to Golden Globe Foundation a nonprofit organization of journalists and photographers who reported on the US-American entertainment industry for predominantly foreign media markets is founding and conducting the annual Golden Globe Awards.
- Bundespressekonferenz
- Edgar Ansel Mowrer became president of the Foreign Press Association (ment is the de:Verein der Ausländischen Presse in Deutschland)
Notes
[edit]- ^ A foreign journalist is a journalist that has not the citizenship of a referring state and is subjext to alien law of the referring state.
References
[edit]- ^ "Foreign Press Association – The Parliamentary Press Gallery". Parliamentary Press Gallery. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
- ^ Cathie Burton, Alun Drake, Hitting the Headlines in Europe: A Country-by-country Guide to Effective Media Relations, 2004, [1]
- ^ Sonja Hillerich, Deutsche Auslandskorrespondenten im 19. Jahrhundert: Die Entstehung einer transnationalen journalistischen Berufskultur, 2018, p. 78
- ^ French Writer Adalbert de Segonzac January 4, 2002, [2]
- ^ The Swiss observer : the journal of the Federation of Swiss Societies in the UK, edited by: Federation of Swiss Societies in the United Kingdom, 1950, [3]
- ^ Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss, Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 2016, [4]
- ^ S. J. Goldsmith, Britain in the Eye of the World: The Foreign Press Association in London 1888–1988, London 1988, p. 5
- ^ Anna Politkovskaya had attended the FPA Media Awards in 2001, [5]
- ^ fpalondon, [6]
- ^ The Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2024 - Winners, [7]
- ^ The Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2010 - Winners, [8]