Named for a former Club president who fervently advocated for press freedom, the John Aubuchon Press Freedom Awards are given each year to one journalist in the United States and one journalist overseas who bravely pushes to disclose the truth in trying circumstances.
Domestic honoree: Linda Tirado, an author and freelance photographer, was taking pictures of a street protest in Minneapolis on May 30 when a policeman’s foam bullet hit her left eye, costing Tirado most of her sight in that eye. Tirado is among the journalists around the country who were injured, harassed or arrested while covering protests that took place nationwide after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
