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==Awards, honours and degrees == Fisk received the [[British Press Awards]]' [[British International Journalist of the Year award|International Journalist of the Year]] seven times,<ref name="Robert Fisk Awards 001">{{cite book|last=Keatinge|first=Patrick|title=Ireland in International Affairs: Interests, Institutions and Identities: Essays in Honour of Professor N.P. Keatinge, FTCD, MRIA|date=2 December 2002|publisher=Institute of Public Administration|isbn=978-1-902448-76-3|page=217}}</ref> and twice won its "Reporter of the Year" award.<ref>{{cite news |title=Times reporter wins award |date=15 December 1987 |work=[[The Times]] |location =London}}</ref> He also received [[Amnesty International UK Media Awards]] in 1992 for his report "The Other Side of the Hostage Saga",<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://find.galegroup.com/inda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=INDA&userGroupName=ucalgary&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=FQ4200478768&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title=Fisk wins Amnesty award|date=7 June 1992|work=The Independent on Sunday|access-date=19 January 2018|page=18}}</ref> in 1998 for his reports from [[Algeria]]<ref name="Robert Fisk Awards - 1998 Amnesty Media Awards 002">{{cite news|url=https://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/awards/1998.html |title=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) Media Awards 1998 β Winners β Short-list β Judges |access-date=18 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010513170831/http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/awards/1998.html |archive-date=13 May 2001 }}</ref> and again in 2000 for his articles on the [[Operation Allied Force|NATO air campaign against the FRY in 1999]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/awards/2000.shtml |title=Amnesty international media awards β Media Awards Winners 2000 |access-date=20 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010513172219/http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/awards/2000.shtml |archive-date=13 May 2001 }}</ref> * 1984 [[Lancaster University]] honorary degree<ref name="lancu">{{cite web|author=Lancaster University|publisher=Lancaster University|title=Honorary Degrees|access-date=9 June 2013|url=http://www.lancs.ac.uk/about-us/ourpeople/honorary-degrees/#eighties}}</ref> * 1991 [[Jacob's Award]] for coverage of the [[Gulf War]] on [[RTΓ Radio 1]]<ref>"In the wars". ''The Irish Times'' (Dublin). 19 November 1991.</ref> *1994 Foreign Reporter of the Year at the British Press Awards for coverage on Algeria, the Hebron massacre, and Bosnia <ref name=":2">{{Cite web|date=28 November 2016|title=Press Awards|url=http://www.pressawards.org.uk/page-view.php?pagename=1990-1999-Winners|access-date=15 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161128031418/http://www.pressawards.org.uk/page-view.php?pagename=1990-1999-Winners|archive-date=28 November 2016}}</ref> *1995 Foreign Reporter of the Year at the British Press Awards<ref name=":2" /> * 1999 [[Orwell Prize]] for journalism<ref>[http://theorwellprize.co.uk/winners/filter/type-Journalism%20Prize/year-1999/ List of 1999 winners] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120214206/http://theorwellprize.co.uk/winners/filter/type-Journalism%20Prize/year-1999/ |date=20 November 2010 }}. The Orwell Prize for Journalism.</ref> * 2001 David Watt Prize for an investigation of the 1915 [[Armenian genocide]] by the [[Ottoman Empire]]<ref>{{cite news |title= Fisk wins award for political journalism |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/fisk-wins-award-for-political-journalism-678347.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081211132859/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/fisk-wins-award-for-political-journalism-678347.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 11 December 2008 |date=20 July 2001 |work=[[The Independent]]|location =London}}</ref> * 2002 [[Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marthagellhorn.com/previous.htm|title=Previous Winners|publisher=[[Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism]]}}</ref> * 2003 [[Open University]] honorary doctorate<ref name="OU">{{cite news |url=http://www.open.ac.uk/students/ceremonies/files/ceremonies/file/Doctor%20of%20the%20University%201973-2011.pdf |publisher=The Open University |title=Doctor of the University 1973β2011 |access-date=10 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213042428/http://www.open.ac.uk/students/ceremonies/files/ceremonies/file/Doctor%20of%20the%20University%201973-2011.pdf |archive-date=13 December 2013 }}</ref> * 2004 [[University of St Andrews]] honorary degree<ref name="uandy">{{cite web|author=University of St Andrews|publisher=The University of St Andrews|date=21 June 2004|title=Honorary degrees June 2004|access-date=9 June 2013|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2004/title,42816,en.php|archive-date=13 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213152542/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2004/title,42816,en.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2004 Golden Doves for Peace, IRIAD<ref>{{Cite web |title=Golden Doves for Peace |url=https://www.archiviodisarmo.it/golden-doves-for-peace.html |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=www.archiviodisarmo.it}}</ref> * 2004 [[Carleton University]] honorary degree<ref name="carl">{{cite web|author=Carleton University|publisher=Carleton University|date= 31 May 2013|title=Honorary Degrees Awarded Since 1954|access-date=9 June 2013|url=http://www1.carleton.ca/senate/honourary-degrees/honorary-degrees-awarded-since-1954/}}</ref> * 2005 [[University of Adelaide]] [[Edward Said#Edward Said memorial lectures|Edward Said Memorial lecture]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adelaide.edu.au/esml/about/|title=About the Edward Said Memorial Lecture|publisher=University of Adelaide|access-date=17 October 2009|archive-date=13 October 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013020509/http://www.adelaide.edu.au/esml/about/|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2006 [[Ghent University]] honorary degree Political and Social Sciences<ref name="UGhent">{{cite web|author=Ghent University|publisher=Ghent University|year=2006|title=Honorary Doctorates (Dutch)|access-date=1 January 2017|url=http://www.ugent.be/nl/univgent/collecties/archief/geschiedenis/overzichten/eredoctoren.htm#2000%20-%202009}}</ref> * 2006 [[American University of Beirut]] honorary degree<ref name="aub">{{cite web|author=American University of Beirut|publisher=American University of Beirut|year=2006|title=Honorary Doctorates|access-date=10 June 2013|url=http://www.aub.edu.lb/doctorates/recipients/2006/Pages/fisk-profile.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801032120/http://www.aub.edu.lb/doctorates/recipients/2006/Pages/fisk-profile.aspx|archive-date=1 August 2013}}</ref> * 2006 [[Queen's University Belfast]] honorary degree<ref name="qub">{{cite web|author=Communications & External Affairs Office |publisher=Queen's University Belfast |year=2006 |title=Destinguished journalist receives Queen's honorary degree |access-date=10 June 2013 |url=http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/ceao/News/ArchivedPressReleases/2006PressReleases/07-2006PressReleases/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604111009/http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/ceao/News/ArchivedPressReleases/2006PressReleases/07-2006PressReleases/ |archive-date= 4 June 2013}}</ref> * 2006 [[Lannan Literary Awards|Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize]] worth $350,000<ref>{{cite web |title=2006 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize awarded to Robert Fisk |publisher=Lannan Foundation |url=http://www.lannan.org/lf/cf/detail/2006-lannan-cultural-freedom-prize-awarded-to-robert-fisk/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070522170120/http://www.lannan.org/lf/cf/detail/2006-lannan-cultural-freedom-prize-awarded-to-robert-fisk/ |archive-date=22 May 2007}}</ref> * 2008 [[University of Kent]] honorary degree<ref name="ukent">{{cite web|publisher=The University of Kent|date=7 July 2008|title=University Honorary Degrees July 2008|access-date=7 June 2013|url=http://www.kent.ac.uk/news/stories/honorarydegreesjuly2008/2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130615084132/http://www.kent.ac.uk/news/stories/honorarydegreesjuly2008/2008|archive-date=15 June 2013}}</ref> * 2008 [[Trinity College Dublin]] honorary doctorate<ref>{{cite web|title=Five recipients to receive honorary degrees at Trinity College Dublin |url=http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/news/news.php?headerID=954&vs_date=1 |date=12 July 2008 |access-date=2 February 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211145843/http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/news/news.php?headerID=954&vs_date=1 |archive-date=11 December 2015 }}</ref> * 2009 [[College Historical Society]]'s Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse<ref name="jta">{{cite news|last=Ihle|first=Jon|publisher= Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date= 8 January 2009|title=Trinity College awards harsh Israel critic|access-date=7 June 2013|url=http://www.jta.org/2009/01/08/news-opinion/world/trinity-college-awards-harsh-israel-critic}}</ref> * 2009 [[Liverpool Hope University]] honorary degree<ref name="uhope">{{cite web|last=Schofield|first=Ben|publisher=Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk|date=16 July 2009|title=Liverpool Bishops honoured by Liverpool Hope University|access-date=9 June 2013|url=http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2009/07/16/liverpool-bishops-honoured-by-liverpool-hope-university-99623-24165522/}}</ref><ref name="uhope2">{{cite news|last=Fisk|first=Robert|work=The Independent|date=18 July 2009|title=Some lessions in sacrifice from Liverpool in two world wars|access-date=9 June 2013|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/fisk/robert-fiskrsquos-world-some-lessons-in-sacrifice-from-liverpool-in-two-world-wars-1751587.html|location=London}}</ref> * 2011 International Prize at the Amalfi Coast Media Awards, Italy<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/robert-fisk-wins-international-prize-2299315.html "Robert Fisk wins International Prize"]. ''The Independent'' (London). 18 June 2011.</ref>
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