Entries for July 1993

Nan Robertson was a reporter and feature writer for The New York Times for more than 30 years in New York, Washington and Paris. "Toxic Shock," based on her own nearly fatal struggle with the disease, was a cover story in the New York Times Sunday Magazine and won Robertson the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for feature writing - making her the third woman at the paper to win journalism's highest award since the Pulitzers were established in 1917. 

When the siege of Sarajevo continued into a second year of bloody civil war, Radio and Television Bosnia-Herzegovina's broadcasts to the outside world also continued because of dedicated journalists like Mirsada Sakic-Hatibovic and Arijana Saracevic. The two women put their lives in constant jeopardy, providing battlefront reports and up-to-the-minute accounts of hostilities that impacted the city's multi-ethnic population.

Cecilia Valenzuela received international attention for her courageous reporting of the military, the Shining Path and national security issues in her native Peru. After producing a television report on human rights violations in 1991, she was fined and sentenced by the Superior Court in Lima to one year in prison, which was conditionally suspended.

The issue of domestic violence is the centerpiece of the award-winning portfolio of American photojournalist Donna Ferrato. In focusing on battered women, Ferrato decided to live among families where violence was prevalent, providing more genuine portraits, but also placing her in considerable danger.