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Richard Engel, the NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent, will receive the L.A. Press Club's 2011 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity on June 26th at the Millennium Biltmore. The award was created in 2002 by the press club and the family of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter from Los Angeles who was slain in Pakistan. "We are thrilled and honored to see this year's award go to Richard Engel, whose broad and insightful coverage of the Middle East, especially through its recent transition, has been pivotal to our understanding of the people of the region, their aspirations and their struggle for freedom and dignity," Pearl's parents, Ruth and Judea Pearl, said in a statement. Past recipients have included Anna Politkovskaya, Michael Kelly, Kevin Sites, Bob Woodruff, Anne Garrels, Michael Weisskopf, Robyn Dixon and Jesus Blancornelas.
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