Journalist recognised for coverage of endurance scandal
British journalist Pippa Cuckson has received an honour for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism for her reporting of the scandal surrounding endurance inwards the Middle East.
The honour was announced past times the International Alliance of Equestrian Journalists.
“Cuckson has long been a credit to her profession, but it is her intrepid reporting of the scandal surrounding the endurance sport inwards the Middle East for which the bureau wishes to recognize her amongst the honour for 2013,” it said inwards a statement.
The honour was established inwards 2012 to abide by members of the equestrian community for outstanding contributions to the industry.
Cuckson’s career has included xx years on the editorial squad at Horse & Hound magazine, latterly equally deputy editor.
Following a seven-year interruption working inwards the racing industry, she returned to journalism equally a freelance author inwards 2009, contributing regularly to The Daily Telegraph, Horse & Hound, Horse Sport International, as well as Chronicle of the Horse.
Cuckson’s delineate concern close the high charge per unit of measurement of Equus caballus fatalities, injuries as well as doping cases inwards Middle East endurance goes dorsum to the belatedly 1990s, when she was deputy editor of Horse & Hound.
She attended the endurance combat at the FEI opened upwardly forum inwards 2012 as well as discovered that things had larn significantly worse inwards the final decade.
She carried out an investigation that resulted inwards a serial of stories that led the agency inwards the reporting of the issue.
Her inquiries included days spent reading through FEI Tribunal reports on doping cases from the United Arab Emirates. She found that a meaning number of cases were linked to stables owned past times Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, or his immediate family.
Cuckson does non stance her commitment to the number equally a crusade.
“I am simply doing what whatever intelligence reporter ought to last doing, because this number provides a snapshot of the 2 issues that volition ultimately destroy equestrian sport equally nosotros know it – our responsibilities to horses when nosotros purpose them equally a slice of sporting machinery; as well as how the moral range of stakeholders seizes upwardly when they larn a sniff of large money.”
Cuckson volition last presented amongst the honour at the alliance’s full general coming together during the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games inwards Normandy, France.
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