Firle Davies, a journalist for the British Broadcasting Corporation, is the recipient of the 2009-10 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship from the International Women’s Media Foundation.
A reporter for more than two decades, Davies has worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan and Zaire, among other countries. She has covered topics such as war, genocide and ethnic violence. During her fellowship, Davies hopes to put into context her years of covering conflict and human rights and social justice issues.
Davies is the fifth recipient of the annual fellowship, which gives a woman journalist working in print, broadcast or online media the opportunity to focus exclusively on human rights journalism and social justice issues.
The fellowship is named for Elizabeth Neuffer, a Boston Globe reporter and the winner of a 1998 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award who was killed while on assignment in Iraq in 2003.