Kyiv Independent journalist named winner of Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism.

Kyiv Independent journalist Asami Terajima is the winner of the 2023 Kurt Schork Local Reporter Award, the Thomson Reuters Foundation announced on Oct.

3. Terajima regularly reports from the front line and was selected for shining "a light on the brutal realities of war through the eyes of Ukrainian soldiers," the announcement wrote. Born in Osaka, Japan in 2000, Terajima's family moved to Ukraine during her childhood and she grew up in Kyiv.

Terajima began her career in journalism in 2020 as a business reporter for the Kyiv Post and was one of the founding members of the Kyiv Independent. The judges described her work as "a compelling [and] very useful addition to coverage of the biggest story in a generation." In May 2023, Terajima won the 2023 George Weidenfeld Prize, an award given "for "excellent investigative and courageous research activities" as part of the prestigious German Axel Springer Prize.

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The Kurt Schork Awards also selected Syrian Kurdish journalist Hisham Arafat as the winner of the News Fixer Award, and French journalist Lea Polverini as the winner of the Freelance Award.

Terajima and Polverini will speak in a panel session, moderated by international correspondent Yalda Hakim, at the Thomson Reuters Foundation's annual Trust Conference on Oct.

19 in London. The awards are named in honor of the American freelance journalist Kurt Schork, who was killed on assignment for Reuters in Sierra Leone in 2000. Now in their 22nd year, the Kurt Schork Awards recognize "brave journalists for their reporting on conflict, corruption, and injustice," according to the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

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The soldiers are identified by their first names or call signs for security reasons amid the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine.

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