The Afghanistan Journalists Centre (AfJC) has jointly awarded five journalists its highest honor of Journalist of the Year for 2024, including a former reporter for Rukhshana Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tahir Ahmadi was one of the five recipients of the award announced Friday at a ceremony in Belgium’s capital, Brussles. <\/strong>His report published by Rukhshana Media on the challenges faced by Afghan migrants in Pakistan was recognized by the judging panel as one of the best reports of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr Ahmadi has also covered under a pseudonym, numerous stories in Afghanistan at great personal risk on human rights violations, women’s and children’s rights, and the migration from Afghanistan since the Taliban returned to power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His work with Rukhshana Media ended after he migrated out of Afghanistan himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other four recipients honored for their work are ToloNews reporters Mitra Majeedy, Nasir Ahmad Salehi, and Farid Mohammadi, and the editor of Hasht-e Subh Daily Amin Kawah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mitra Majeedy\u2019s report on the plight of child laborers in Kabul was especially noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Afghanistan Journalist of the Year has been awarded by the AfJC annually since 2014 with both local and international media outlets able to nominate journalists for the award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The AfJC tracks and publishes reports on the situation of journalists, media, and media operations in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Due to restrictions on the media since the Taliban takeover of the country, the organization now conducts many of its programs outside Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Afghanistan Journalists Centre (AfJC) has jointly awarded five journalists its highest honor of Journalist of the Year for 2024, including a former reporter for Rukhshana Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override":[{"single_blog_custom":"","sidebar":"","second_sidebar":"","share_position":"","share_float_style":"","post_date_format":"","post_date_format_custom":"","post_reading_time_wpm":"","zoom_button_out_step":"1","zoom_button_in_step":"1","number_popup_post":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"","single_post_gallery_size":""}],"trending_post_position":"","trending_post_label":"","sponsored_post_label":"","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[900,896],"tags":[5004,5733,5825,998],"class_list":["post-24549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-uncategorized-en","tag-afghanistans-media","tag-journalist","tag-journalist-center","tag-rukhshana-media"],"yoast_head":"\n