TEHRAN–Paul Sonne, winner of the Stan Swinton scholarship from the OPC Foundation in 2008, who was working for the European edition of the Wall Street Journal in London, appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal‘s U.S. edition in late December from Tehran.
Working with colleague Farnaz Fassihi, Sonne described how the Iranian regime is filtering out unwanted content from the satellite television channels that reach millions of Iranians. The regime has jammed the broadcasts of the BBC’s Persian channel as well as the Voice of America and other Western networks with Persian-language programming. Another one of our winners on the front lines.