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Article

1 Oct 2006

Author:
Norm Cohen, New York Times

Yahoo tries to mend some fences

...[B]arely seven months after being excoriated for giving information about a professional journalist to Chinese authorities, Yahoo has donated $1 million to Stanford University's John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists. The gift, announced last month, will support journalists "from countries where there are restrictions on freedom of the press, either by governmental agencies or other forces."... Yahoo was criticized by human rights advocates and U.S. lawmakers of both parties during a February hearing when it was revealed that in 2004, a Chinese division of the company had turned over to the Chinese authorities information on a journalist, Shi Tao... Shi...was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Srinija Srinivasan, Yahoo's editor in chief, said...that Yahoo was "profoundly distressed by the arrest" of Shi, but said that the gift was "not about regret."