Bartamaha (Mogadishu):- Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism has honored an Associated Press reporter in Somalia with its award that recognizes those who display conscience and integrity in communications.

Mohamed Olad Hassan has endured repeated death threats, intimidation and a shrapnel wound from a mortar explosion near his home in the Somali capital of Mogadishu in 2007. In December 2009, he narrowly escaped with his life when a bomb exploded at a graduation ceremony he wascovering, killing two dozen people.

Harvard announced Friday that Nieman Fellows in the class of 2011 selected Hassan as the 2010 winner of the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism.

The fellows said they “admire his intrepid reporting in the face of mortal danger.”

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Source:-AP.

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