The 2024 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), has been awarded to Nicaraguan journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro, editor-in-chief of Confidencial, currently in exile in Costa Rica.
Arrested, jailed, killed, forced into exile, released with restrictions… each year, WAN-IFRA’s Golden Pen of Freedom Award symbolises the challenges faced by all too many journalists throughout their careers – and lives…