AP's Kathy Gannon Set to Accept Syracuse University Award
The latest recipient of the Tully Free Speech Award is still on the mend.
The Tully Free Speech Award, given annually by Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, honors “journalists who have persevered in the face of threats and other obstacles.” In the case of longtime AP Middle East correspondent Kathy Gannon (pictured), the most prominent threat she face was from an unprovoked April 2014 attack in Khost, Afghanistan. While Gannon survived the gunfire, her AP colleague Anja Niedringhaus was killed.
From Gannon’s recent conversation with Syracuse Media Group editorial leader Marie Morelli:
“I just started back to work at the beginning of this year … I just have problems with my left hand.
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