Yaara Bou Melhem named young journalist of the year
SBS reporter Yaara Bou Melhem has been named the 2011 
Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the year.
Bou Melhem won the award for Freedom’s Call – her video investigation into the people’s democracy movement in Syria.
“Yaara took significant personal risks by venturing into Syria and her work has shone a light on the lengths to which the Syrian government would go to silence its critics,” Judges said.
