Entries for February 2008

Winners of the 2007 George Polk Awards were announced. Awards went to reporters from newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Among the winners was Leila Fadel, the Baghdad bureau chief for McClatchy newspaper company. Six Iraqi women from the McClatchy bureau that Fadel leads won a 2007 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award. Read more in The New York Times.

Two CBS News journalists were kidnapped in Basra and remain missing. The journalists, a British citizen and an Iraqi, were taken from their hotel Feb. 10 by armed men. At least 15 journalists, all Iraqi, are currently held hostage in Iraq, according Reporters Without Borders, which continues to be the world's most dangerous country for the media. Read an article in The Washington Post.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 11, 2008 For more information: February 8, 2008 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Supreme Leader of the Islamic Rep...

Barbara Cochran, a member of the IWMF's Advisory Council and president of the Radio-Television News Directors Association and Radio and Television News Directors Foundation, is the 2008 recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award in Broadcasting from the University of Georgia's DiGamma Kappa student society. Cochran will be honored at a Feb. 5 ceremony. Read more on RTNDA’s Web site.