Against The Grain
Geoffrey Nyarota, founder and former editor in chief of "The Daily News" in Zimbabwe, was awarded the World Association of Newspapers 2002 Golden Pen of Freedom in recognition of his outstanding service to the cause of press freedom in the face of constant persecution. He has recently served as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and has been awarded with the Percy Qoboza Foreign Journalist Award from the National Association of Black Journalists, USA (1989 and 2003) and the prestigious Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Award - UNESCO (2002).