Robert Fisk - Awards

Awards

Fisk has received the British Press Awards' International Journalist of the Year seven times, and twice won its "Reporter of the Year" award.

He received Amnesty International UK Press Awards in 1998 for his reports from Algeria and again in 2000 for his articles on the NATO air campaign against the FRY in 1999.

• In 1991, Fisk won a Jacob's Award for his RTÉ Radio coverage of the Gulf War.
• In 1999, Fisk won the Orwell Prize for journalism.
• In 2001, he was awarded the David Watt Prize for "outstanding contributions towards the clarification of political issues and the promotion of their greater understanding" for his investigation into the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire in 1915.
• In 2002, he was the fourth recipient of the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.
• In 2006, Fisk was awarded Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize along with $350,000.
• In 2011, Fisk was awarded the International Prize at the Amalfi Coast Media Awards in Italy.
• Fisk is also a recipient of the College Historical Society's Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse.