In 2003, The Committee to Protect Journalists presented Jamaï its International Press Freedom Award,[6] "an annual recognition of courageous journalism".[14] The following year, he spent a year at Yale University in the US as a Yale World Fellow.[4] In 2005 he was named Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum in Davos. He was named a Nieman Fellow of Harvard University in 2007,[15] and in 2008 he was awarded the Tully Center Free Speech Award, of the Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University.