|
International Women’s Media Foundation
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 org ... [...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 of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the journalist, occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles. The appropriate role for journalism varies from country 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, libel cases. The proliferation of the Internet and smartphones has brought significant changes to the media landscape since the turn of the 21st century. This has created a shif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arwa Damon
Arwa Damon (born September 19, 1977) is a Syrian - American journalist who was most recently 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. She left CNN in June 2022 to focus on her humanitarian work. Early life Damon was born in Boston on September 19, 1977 to an American father and Syrian mother. She spent her early childhood years in Wayland, Massachusetts. Damon is the granddaughter of Muhsin al-Barazi, the former 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. Damon skipped sixth grade and graduated with honors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerise Castle
Cerise Castle is an American journalist. She received the IWMF Courage in Journalism Award and the American Mosaic Journalism Prize 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 Depar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynsey Addario
Lynsey Addario (born 1973) is an American 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, in Westport in 1991 and from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1995. 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 freelanced for the Associated Press in New York City, only to mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessikka Aro
Jessikka Aro (born 19 December 1980) is a Finnish journalist working for Finland's public service broadcaster Yle and an author of a non-fiction book ''Putin's Trolls''. In September 2014, she began to investigate pro-Russian Internet trolls, but became a victim of their activities herself. This harassment led to three people being convicted in October 2018. In 2019 she was notified that she was to receive an International Women of Courage Award from the U.S. Department of State but this was rescinded just before the ceremony. Russian trolls Aro saw the actions of Kremlin-connected internet trolls as "a threat to Finnish people's freedom of speech" telling ''Deutsche Welle'' (DW) she "was really astonished to find out that it's quite big—super big actually." After a visit to St Petersburg to investigate the Internet Research Agency, where she interviewed employees at the troll factory who create fake online accounts and produce fake stories, she encountered a significant backl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yakeen Bido
Yakeen may refer to: * ''Yakeen'', a 1969 Indian film directed by Brij * ''Yakeen'', a 2005 Bollywood thriller film directed by Girish Dhamija {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Free Asia
Radio Free Asia (RFA) is a news service that publishes online news, information, commentary and broadcasts radio programs for its audiences in Asia. The service, which provides editorially independent reporting, has the stated mission of providing accurate and uncensored reporting to countries in Asia that have poor media environments and limited protections for speech and press freedom. RFA operates as a non-profit corporation, headquartered in Washington, D.C., with news bureaus and journalists in Asia, Europe, and Australia. RFA was established by the US International Broadcasting Act of 1994 with the stated aim of "promoting democratic values and human rights", and countering the narratives and monopoly on information distribution of the Chinese Communist Party, as well as providing media reports about the North Korean government. It has historically been funded and supervised by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (formerly Broadcasting Board of Governors), an indep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uyghur Americans
Uyghur Americans () are Americans of Uyghurs, Uyghur ethnicity. Most Uyghurs emigrated from Xinjiang, China, to the United States from the late 1980s onwards, with a significant number arriving after July 2009. History Uyghurs' history in the United States dates back to the 1960s with the arrival of a small number of immigrants. In the late 20th century, after a series of Xinjiang conflicts, more millions of Uyghurs fled from Xinjiang to Kazakhstan, Turkey, Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries and places. A 2010 estimate put the Uyghur population in the United States at more than 8,000, however, the Uyghur American Association has said that more have moved to the United States in the 2010s because of the crackdown of July 2009 Ürümqi riots in China in July 2009. As of 2022, the Uyghur American Association estimates there are about 10,000 Uyghurs in the United States while the East Turkistan Government in Exile estimates there are between 10,000 and 15 ... [...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; Her 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] |
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 Southwestern China, Northeastern India, and Bangladesh. It is known as Brahmaputra or Luit in Assamese, Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibetan, the Siang/Dihang River in Arunachali, and ... . 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 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 sha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
