Aye Aye Win is a Burmese journalist. Aye Aye Win was born in

Yangon Yangon ( my, ရန်ကုန်; ; ), formerly spelled as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government ...

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on 20 December 1953. She is the daughter of journalist U Sein Win, who worked for the

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(AP) for 20 years, advocated for press freedom in Burma, and was sentenced to three terms in prison. In 1979, she graduated from school and was trained in journalism by her father. In 1983, she took her father's phone calls while he was breaking the story of the assassination attempt on South Korean president

Chun Doo-hwan Chun Doo-hwan (; or ; 18 January 1931 – 23 November 2021) was a South Korean army general and military dictator who ruled as an unelected strongman from 1979 to 1980 before replacing Choi Kyu-hah as president of South Korea from 1980 to 198 ...

.Veteran journalist Aye Aye Win on the challenges reporting in Myanmar
''Global Journalist''. 9 January 2014. In 1988, her father moved to the ''Kyoto News'', leaving AP. Win joined the Associated Press in 1989 and was the only female foreign correspondent in Burma at the time. She worked for the Associated Press there for 25 years. She was chief of bureau in Myanmar for AP and during her tenure endured official warnings, surveillance, and threats. She announced her retirement in 2015. Win was awarded the Associated Press' Gramling Award in 2004, and shared in the Managing Editors' prize in 2008 for the coverage of

Cyclone Nargis Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Nargis ( my, နာဂစ်, ur, نرگس ) was an extremely destructive and deadly tropical cyclone that caused the worst natural disaster in the recorded history of Myanmar during early May 2008. The cyclone m ...

. In 2008 Win also received the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation, who described her as the "axe-handle of the foreign press." She was awarded the Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism in 2013.

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Veteran journalist Aye Aye Win on the challenges reporting in Myanmar (interview)
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