Skip to main content
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • Videos
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Library
    • Research
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Media, Law & Policy
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
Sections
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • Videos
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Library
    • Research
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Media, Law & Policy

AP Correspondent Kathy Gannon to Be Honored with Tully Free Speech Award March 7

Tuesday, February 23, 2016, By Wendy S. Loughlin
Share
awardsNewhouse School of Public Communications

Associated Press correspondent Kathy Gannon is the recipient of the 2015 Tully Free Speech Award. Presented by the Tully Center for Free Speech in the Newhouse School, the award honors journalists who have persevered in the face of threats and other obstacles to free speech.

Kathy Gannon (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Kathy Gannon (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Gannon will receive the award at a ceremony on Monday, March 7, at 7 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3. Follow on Twitter at #TullyAward.

“Kathy Gannon’s courage and dedication to reporting exemplifies the values we hope our students and future journalists will embody,” says Roy Gutterman, associate professor and director of the Tully Center. “I have met Kathy and know she will share some important stories with us.”

Gannon serves as the AP’s senior correspondent for Pakistan and Afghanistan, having covered the region since 1988. Her time there has included the withdrawal of Russian soldiers from Afghanistan, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the Afghan civil war and the rise and fall of the Taliban. Gannon was the only Western journalist allowed in Kabul by the Taliban in the weeks preceding the 2001 U.S.-British offensive in Afghanistan.

In April 2014, Gannon was seriously wounded while covering preparations for Afghan national elections when an Afghan police officer opened fire on her car. Her colleague and close friend, AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus, was killed in the attack.

In addition to her coverage of South Central Asia, Gannon has covered the Middle East, including the 2006 Israeli war against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, and war in northern Iraq.

A native of Canada, she was previously the city editor at the Kelowna Courier in British Columbia and worked at several Canadian newspapers. She is the author of “I is for Infidel: From Holy War, to Holy Terror in Afghanistan,” an examination of the Taliban and post-Taliban period.

Gannon is the recipient of several awards, including the International Women’s Media Foundation Courage In Journalism Award; the Overseas Press Club Award; the Committee to protect Journalists Burton Benjamin Memorial Award; the John Peter and Anna Catherine Zenger Freedom of the Press Award; the Grady College McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage; the James Foley Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism; and the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression Tara Singh Hayer Memorial Award.

About the Tully Award

Endowed by the late Joan Tully ’69, the Newhouse School’s Tully Center educates students and the public about the important value of free speech through education, resources and research. As part of her bequest, Tully asked that an award be given to honor a journalist who has shown courage in facing a free speech threat. The awardee visits Syracuse University for several days to be honored at an award ceremony, accept a cash award and visit classes across campus.

Previous Tully Award recipients include Alan Rusbridger of The Guardian (UK); independent journalist Idrak Abbasov (Azerbaijan); independent journalist Lamees Dhaif (Bahrain); Umar Cheema of The News (Pakistan); Lydia Cacho of El Universal (Mexico); co-Winners Barry Bearak of The New York Times (U.S.) and freelance reporter Frank Chikowore (Zimbabwe); and Aboubakr Jamai of Le Journal Hebdomadaire (Morocco).

For more information, contact Gutterman at rsgutter@syr.edu or 315-443-3523.

  • Author

Wendy S. Loughlin

  • Recent
  • Syracuse University/SUNY-ESF Team Wins ‘JUMP into STEM’ Competition
    Tuesday, March 2, 2021, By Julie Sharkey
  • US Army Awards Meritorious Civilian Service Medal to Professor Mark Glauser
    Tuesday, March 2, 2021, By Alex Dunbar
  • ‘Is Election Disinformation Free Speech or Defamation? Courts Will Decide’
    Tuesday, March 2, 2021, By Lily Datz
  • University to Guarantee Admission to Eligible Area High School Graduates After Completing Initial Enlistment in US Military
    Tuesday, March 2, 2021, By Brandon Dyer
  • Q&A With Keith Henderson, the University’s New Chief Compliance Officer
    Monday, March 1, 2021, By News Staff

More In Media, Law & Policy

‘Is Election Disinformation Free Speech or Defamation? Courts Will Decide’

Roy Gutterman, associate professor of magazine, news and digital journalism and director of the Tully Center for Free Speech in the Newhouse School, wrote an op-ed for Syracuse.com titled “Is election disinformation free speech or defamation? Courts will decide.” Gutterman,…

Hilda A. Frimpong Becomes the First Black Student to Lead Syracuse Law Review

Second-year College of Law student Hilda A. Frimpong has been elected by her peers as the next editor in chief of Syracuse Law Review. When she assumes her duties for Volume 72 (2021-22), Frimpong will be the first Black student…

‘8 Tips for Grad Students for Planning in 2021’

Timur Hammond, assistant professor of geography and the environment in the Maxwell School, wrote an op-ed for Inside Higher Ed titled “8 Tips for Grad Students for Planning in 2021.” Hammond also serves as a faculty liaison for the Future…

‘What’s the Point of Impeachment? ‘To Lay Down a Marker for History’’

Thomas Keck, the Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics and professor of political science in the Maxwell School, wrote an op-ed for Syracuse.com titled “What’s the point of impeachment? ‘To lay down a marker for history.’” Keck,…

Faricy Explores Public Perceptions of Welfare via the US Tax Code

In their new book, “The Other Side of the Coin: Public Opinion toward Social Tax Expenditures” (Russell Sage Foundation, 2021), Syracuse University professor Christopher Faricy and Bucknell University professor Christopher Ellis examine how public opinion differs between two types of…

Subscribe to SU Today

If you need help with your subscription, contact sunews@syr.edu.

Connect With Us

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
Social Media Directory

For the Media

Find an Expert Follow @SyracuseUNews
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
  • @SyracuseU
  • @SyracuseUNews
  • @SUCampus
  • Social Media Directory
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy
  • Campus Status
  • Syracuse.edu
© 2021 Syracuse University News. All Rights Reserved.