Yoani Sanchez, 60th World Hero(ine) of Press Freedom

Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez has been declared the 60th World Press Freedom Hero by the Vienna-based International Press Institute. Sanchez had already received a few prizes for her dogged dissenter's work in Cuba, like the prestigious Spanish Prize Ortega y Gasset.
Will she be allowed to travel to Vienna on September 13 to receive the award?
For more info: gp to http://www.freemedia.at/singleview/5130/

Grotius.fr prend son envol/takes off

Started on a shoe-string by RFI (Radio France Internationale) journalist Jean-Jacques Louarn the humanitarian news website Grotius.fr has been given a great facelift last week. The site is hipper without being gimmicky. It is user-friendly and above all provides a great selection of news and opinions on humanitarian assistance and human rights, becoming therefore one of the major French "crossroads" for this kind of stories.

News from Mozambique brought to you by "information-doers" and the new social media

Would we have known about the riots in Mozambique without the new media and social networks? Mohamed Keita, of the Committee to Protect Journalists, provides an interesting analysis.
http://cpj.org/blog/2010/09/new-media-brings-crisis-in-mozambique-to-the-world.php#more