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   Zecharias Zelalem (zekuzelalem@dair-community.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 11:57:27 JST Zecharias Zelalem

   • The Continent

   Hi friends. I finished runner up for the Martin Adler Prize, at the 2024 Rory Peck Journalism Awards. At this year's awards hosted at the London BFI Southbank, Palestinian journalists swept the prizes & rightfully so! It's the first time in the 30 year history of the awards that one story claims all the awards. It was a huge honor to meet them in person.

   My year long coverage of Ethiopia's Amhara war for @thecontinent, Al Jazeera & The Globe and Mail sealed my place there.

   Unforgettable night.

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     Zecharias Zelalem (zekuzelalem@dair-community.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 12:12:19 JST Zecharias Zelalem

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     All in all, it was an honor to meet old friends and be acquainted with new ones again. Got to hear from those who personally documented genocide of their families in Gaza. Many spoke about seeing loved ones and colleagues be killed.

     This was their night, and we're glad the Rory Peck Awards acknowledged them and didn't do what the Pulitzer prize committee did last year by completely erasing them.

     AFP coverage of their London journalists winning gold in London:

     https://www.afp.com/en/agency/awards/gaza-journalists-afp-win-video-award-powerful-war-coverage

     Timnit Gebru (she/her) and Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3 repeated this.
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     Zecharias Zelalem (zekuzelalem@dair-community.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 12:15:35 JST Zecharias Zelalem

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     • Weird Socks

     @ohmu with this finish...I'm a bit less random now🤣🤣 thank you so much!!

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     Weird Socks (ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 12:15:36 JST Weird Socks

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     @ZekuZelalem

     Congratulations to the Random Black Dude in a Suit!
     You do excellent work!

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     Zecharias Zelalem (zekuzelalem@dair-community.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 12:15:53 JST Zecharias Zelalem

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     • Rob Ricci

     @ricci Thank you!!!!🙏🏿

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 12:15:54 JST Rob Ricci

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     @ZekuZelalem Congratulations on your high finish!

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     Zecharias Zelalem (zekuzelalem@dair-community.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 12:21:08 JST Zecharias Zelalem

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     Here's footage of our segment of the ceremony...along with the speeches we gave.

     Aseel Mousa finished her speech with "from the river to the sea" and there were sponsors from Google and others seated right there watching it all😆

     But none of us were censored thankfully. We all acknowledged genocide.

     Londoners were kind, accommodating and especially generous with their wine.

     Thank you fediverse family, for your support throughout my year of reporting!

     Selam.
     -ZZ.

     https://youtu.be/wcaxGhjL9Yc?si=-ZsH3wjw6nR6qcWU