Entries for February 2009

The International Center for Journalists has two fellowships for young journalists who wish to report from Germany and Austria. Deadeline is March 1. For more information, visit www.icfj.org/burns or www.icfj.org/austria

The International Center for Foreign Journalists offers two fellowships for young journalists who want to report from German and Austria. For more information, visits www.icjf.org/burns and www.icfj.org/austria.

 

The International Center for Journalists offers several opportunities for young journalists to report from Germany and Austria. Deadline is March 1. For more information, visit www.icfj.org/austria and www.icfj.org/burns.

Alifiya Khan, a twenty-four year old correspondent at The Hindustan Times has won the Anupama Jayaraman Award for her reporting on human rights and social justice. For further details, contact the Network of Women in Media, India at award.aj@gmail.com.

Reporting on Agriculture and Women: Africa in Mali, Uganda and Zambia

Three men were acquitted of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and winner of an IWMF Courage Award in 2002.  Best known for her stories about the war in Chechnya, Politkovskaya was found shot in her Moscow apartment in 2006.  Sources believe she was murdered because her investigations uncovered information that threatened influential figures within Russia.  A fourth man was also tied to the defendants, but not to the murder.  Read the article in the New York Times.

For immediate releaseFebruary 23, 2009 For more information:  In Johannesburg, South Africa:Fikile Nkambule+27 11 341 0767 fnkambule@frayintermedia.c...

Miriam Zimba is the managing editor of The Times of Zambia. She is a participant in the IWMF initiative Reporting on Women in Agriculture: Africa, and her newsroom is a Center of Excellence.

For immediate releaseFebruary 5, 2009 For more information, contact:Lindsey Wray(202) 496-1992LWray@iwmf.org International Women’s Media Foundation ...

The International Women’s Media Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2009-10 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship, which is open to women journalists whose focus is human rights and social justice.

Named for the 1998 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award winner and Boston Globe correspondent who was killed in Iraq in May 2003, the fellowship allows one woman journalist to spend an academic year in a tailored program with access to Boston-area universities as well as the Boston Globe and New York Times. 

Applications will be accepted until April 15, 2009, and the fellowship will run from September 2009 – May 2010.

• Read the press release.
• Learn more about the fellowship.
• Click here to apply.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 2, 2009 For more information:Lindsey Wray(202) 496-1992LWray@iwmf.org IWMF Accepting Applications for Elizabeth Neuffe...