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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 26, 2008
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For more information:
Lindsey Wray
(202) 496-1992
LWray@iwmf.org
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International Women’s Media Foundation Names New Board Members, Co-Chairs
January 24, 2008
Washington, D.C. – The International Women's Media Foundation has announced three new members of its board of directors:
- Jennifer Moyer, chief operating officer for Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, the online publishing subsidiary of The Washington Post Company. Moyer is a former vice president of Finance and Business Development and controller for WPNI.
- Tom Mshindi, managing director of the Monitor Publications Ltd. in Kampala, Uganda. Mshindi has trained and worked as a journalist, development communications specialist and senior media manager in Kenya and abroad.
- Carolan K. Stiles, founder and president of Blue Creek Foundation, which focuses on core environmental issues around water quality. Stiles is a sixth-generation member of a small media family that technically retains voting control over its 150-year-old newspaper company, McClatchy Inc.
Leading the IWMF's board of directors are Liza Gross, managing editor for presentation and operations at The Miami Herald, and Akwe Amosu, senior policy analyst for Africa at the Open Society Institute. Amosu replaces Eleanor Clift, a contributing editor at Newsweek, who will remain on the IWMF board. Ysabel Duron of KRON4-TV in San Francisco serves as vice chair. Secretary is Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and treasurer is Peggy White.
Outgoing board members will serve on an advisory council for the IWMF. They are:
- Kathy Bushkin Calvin, executive vice president and chief operating officer, United Nations Foundation
- Emily Nwankwo, media consultant based in Nairobi, Kenya
- Larry Olmstead, president and executive consultant of Leading Edge Associates
- Margaret Scott Schiff, vice president for finance and human resources for The Washington Post
For full bios of members of the IWMF's 2008 board of directors, visit www.iwmf.org/about/board.php. Founded in 1990, the International Women's Media Foundation is a vibrant global network dedicated to strengthening the role of women in the news media worldwide as a means to further freedom of the press. The IWMF network includes women and men in the media in more than 130 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.iwmf.org.
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