ABSTRACT
The new york-based Committee to Protect Journalists convenes to honor journalists from around the world who have demonstrated extraordinary courage and independence. Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) offers an additional award, in memory of Burton Benjamin, an esteemed CBS News producer and a chairman of CPJ; it usually honors the already much-honored. In 1997, the recipient of the Benjamin award was Ted Koppel of ABC News, who refreshingly chose to examine the varieties of courage that journalism might demand and that its practitioners might or might not supply. Between the two worlds of journalism, the journalism of safe places and the journalism of dangerous places, there is a small clan that belongs truly to neither. CPJ makes clear, remains perilous ground for independent journalism. Governments combine the ancient legal weapons of licensing and criminal libel with secret-police methods. The Insider offers little guts and glory; it is all moral quandaries—not only Wigand's, but those faced or avoided by television newspeople.
