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IWMF
The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF), located in Washington, D.C., is an organization working internationally to elevate the status of women in the media. The IWMF has created programs to help women in the media develop practical solutions to the obstacles they face in their careers and lives. The IWMF's work includes a wide range of programs including international reporting fellowships in Africa and Latin America and providing grant opportunities for women journalists, research into the status of women in the media, and the Courage in Journalism, Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism, and Lifetime Achievement Awards. The IWMF advocates for press freedom internationally and often forms petitions asking international governments to release journalists in captivity and offer protection to journalists in danger. History In March 2011, the IWMF organized an international conference of women leaders at George Washington University in order to commemorate the or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynsey Addario
Lynsey Addario (born November 13, 1973) is an American Photojournalism, photojournalist. Her work often focuses on conflicts and human rights issues, especially the role of women in traditional societies. In 2022, she received a Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF). Life and work Lynsey Addario was born and raised in Westport, Connecticut, to parents Camille and Phillip Addario, both Italian-American hairdressers. She graduated from Staples High School (Connecticut), Staples High School, in Westport in 1991 and from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995.[4] She also holds two Honorary degree, Honorary Doctorate Degrees, one from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Humanities, and another from Bates College in Maine. Addario began photographing professionally with the ''Buenos Aires Herald'' in Argentina in 1996 with, as she says, "no previous photographic training". In the late 1990s, she moved back to the United States and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerise Castle
Cerise Castle is an American journalist. She received the IWMF Courage in Journalism Award for her investigative series on deputy gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Career Castle previously worked as an associate producer for ''Vice News Tonight''. In 2020 she was hired as a producer at KCRW. While reporting a Los Angeles George Floyd protest in May 2020, Castle was shot with a rubber bullet by LAPD. During her rehabilitation, she spent six months investigating the history of deputy gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LACSD). Castle accepted a buyout to leave her position at KCRW in February 2021. In a statement posted to Twitter and an interview on ''LA Podcast'', she stated she had experienced racist microaggressions during her time as an employee. In March 2021, she published her LACSD gangs series, "A Tradition of Violence: The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department" in ''Knock LA''. Her reporting state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brankica Stanković
Brankica Stanković ( sr-cyr, Бранкица Станковић; born October 1975) is a prominent Serbian investigative journalist reporting on topics of crime and political corruption in Serbia. She is the main writer of the investigative television news programme ''Insajder'' (Serbian for "Insider") produced by the B92 television between 2004 and 2015, and by Stanković's own news production company since 2016. Her reports led to much controversy, and she routinely receives death threats. For that reason, she has been placed under 24 hours police protection since December 2009. Early career Stanković was born in Belgrade, Serbia (then SFR Yugoslavia) in October 1975.Brankica Stanković profile on official site Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arwa Damon
Arwa Damon (born September 19, 1977) is an American journalist who is a senior international correspondent for CNN, based in Istanbul. From 2003, she covered the Middle East as a freelance journalist, before joining CNN in 2006. She is also president and founder of INARA, a humanitarian organization that provides medical treatment to refugee children from Syria. Early life and education Born in Boston, to an American father and Syrian mother, Damon spent her early childhood years in Wayland, Massachusetts. Damon is the granddaughter of Muhsin al-Barazi, the former Syrian Kurd Prime Minister of Syria, who was executed in the August 1949 Syrian coup d'état. At the age of six, Damon and her family moved to Morocco, followed by Istanbul, Turkey three years later, where her father was a teacher and middle school director at Robert College. He went from there to Işıkkent School in Izmir, and was then headmaster of the American Community School at Beirut from 2003 until his r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solange Lusiku Nsimire
Solange Lusiku Nsimire (1972 – October 14, 2018) was a journalist and women's rights activist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She was the first woman to run a written newspaper in South Kivu Province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Aviva StahlSolange Lusiku Nsimire — The Congolese journalist who fought corruption and championed women ''Women's Media Center'', November 27, 2018. Nsimire started editing ''Le Souverain'', an independent newspaper based in Bukavu, in 2007.Eleanor KlibanoffA Congolese Mother Of Six Is Honored For Her Death-Defying Journalism National Public Radio National Public Radio (NPR, stylized in all lowercase) is an American privately and state funded nonprofit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It differs from other ..., October 27, 2014. Accessed July 27, 2020. She managed to resuscitate the newspaper from a moribund state, but faced repeate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cindi Leive
Cynthia Leive ( ; born January 21, 1967) is a journalist, media leader and advocate for women. A cultural critic, she is the former editor-in-chief of both ''Glamour'' and ''Self'' magazines, and the author or producer of numerous books including the 2018 ''New York Times'' bestseller "Together We Rise," about the making of the March for Women's Lives. Leive has interviewed heads of state, Hollywood and fashion's biggest personalities, and iconic leaders from all walks of life. She is currently a senior fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Career Leive's career began at The Paris Review, where she was an intern while still a student at Swarthmore College. After graduating, Leive took an editorial assistant position at ''Glamour'' and worked alongside Ruth Whitney, who was at the helm of the magazine for 31 years. After 11 years, Leive left ''Glamour'' as deputy editor and joined ''Self'' magazine as editor-in-chief. During Leive's tenure, ''Self’s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anja Niedringhaus
Anja Niedringhaus (12 October 1965 – 4 April 2014) was a German photojournalist who worked for the Associated Press (AP). She was the only woman on a team of 11 AP photographers that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for coverage of the Iraq War. That same year she was awarded the International Women's Media Foundation's Courage in Journalism prize. Niedringhaus had covered Afghanistan for several years before she was killed on 4 April 2014, while covering the presidential election, after an Afghan policeman opened fire at the car she was waiting in at a checkpoint, part of an election convoy. Early life and education Niedringhaus was born in Höxter, North Rhine-Westphalia, and began working as a freelance photographer at age 17 while still in high school. In 1989, she covered the collapse of the Berlin Wall for the German newspaper '' Göttinger Tageblatt''. Career Niedringhaus began full-time work as a photojournalist in 1990 when she joined the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahira Montcourt
Nahira is a village in Kamrup, situated in north bank of river Brahmaputra The Brahmaputra is a trans-boundary river which flows through Tibet, northeast India, and Bangladesh. It is also known as the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibetan, the Siang/Dihang River in Arunachali, Luit in Assamese, and Jamuna River in Bangla. It ... . Transport Nahira is accessible through National Highway 31. All major private commercial vehicles ply between Nahira and nearby towns. See also * Naitar * Nampara Majarkuri References {{reflist Villages in Kamrup district ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masrat Zahra
Masrat Zahra (born 8 December 1993) is a Kashmiri freelance photojournalist from Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. She covers stories about local communities and women. She won the 2020 "Anja Niedringhaus Courage" in Photojournalism award from International Women's Media Foundation and Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and the Ethical Journalism 2020. Biography Masrat Zahra was born on 8 December 1993 in Hawal, Jammu and Kashmir, into a Kashmiri Muslim family. Her father is a truck driver and mother is a homemaker. She studied journalism at the Central University of Kashmir. She photographs the Kashmir conflict and her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New Humanitarian, TRT World, Al Jazeera, The Caravan, The Sun, The News Arab and The World Weekly. She experiences constant resistance based on her job and gender as she is one of a small group of female photojournalists in the region. In April 2018, Zahra was labelled as a police informer after she shared an image from an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journalism
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles. Journalistic media include print, television, radio, Internet, and, in the past, newsreels. The appropriate role for journalism varies from countries to country, as do perceptions of the profession, and the resulting status. In some nations, the news media are controlled by government and are not independent. In others, news media are independent of the government and operate as private industry. In addition, countries may have differing implementations of laws handling the freedom of speech, freedom of the press as well as slander and libel cases. The proliferation of the Internet and smartphones has brought significant changes to the media la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulchehra Hoja
Gulchehra "Guli" A. Hoja (born 1973) is a Uyghur–American journalist who has worked for ''Radio Free Asia'' since 2001. In November 2019, Hoja received the Magnitsky Human Rights Award for her reporting on the ongoing human rights crisis in Xinjiang and in 2020, Hoja received the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation and was listed among The 500 Most Influential Muslims. Early life Hoja was born in 1973 in Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Her father was a noted author and archaeologist who served as the head of the archeology department of Xinjiang Regional Museum; His writing focused on Uyghur language and history and his archeological work included field work on mummies found in the Tarim Basin. Hoja's mother worked both as a professor of pharmacology and as a pharmacist. She has one brother, who is one-and-one-half years younger than her. Her grandfather was a widely known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
