Maria Elena Salinas, an IWMF board member and an anchor at Univision, wrote a column about the 2009 Courage in Journalism Award winners and the importance of journalism in getting stories out. Read Salinas’ piece.

Newsrooms are changing and women journalists need to be flexible to survive in them, said Peggy White, publisher of Double X and a member of the IWMF board, at a recent networking event held at the Americas Society in New York.

The International Women’s Media Foundation will bring together women journalists in December for the South Asia Initiative on Women and HIV/AIDS Policymaking. The initiative will help enable women leaders from media, civil society and parliament to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Six journalists – two each from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan – will participate in activities and events designed to help them cover the HIV/AIDS epidemic in their home countries. The program will be held Dec. 7-10 in Washington, D.C.

The IWMF is partnering with the Centre for Development and Population Activities and the Center for Women Policy Studies for the initiative, which is supported by the Ford Foundation.

• Read the press release to learn more about the program and the selected journalists.

For immediate releaseNovember 5, 2009 For more information:Lindsey Wray(202) 496-1992LWray@iwmf.org IWMF Launches New Initiative for Journalists fro...

Maria Elena Salinas, a member of the IWMF board of directors and an anchor for Univision, talks about her career and the rise of Spanish-language news in an intervew with Mediabistro. Read the Mediabistro article.

Voice of America featured 2009 Courage in Journalism Award winner Agnes Taile on In Focus. 2002 Courage winner Sandra Nyaira was also interviewed for the broadcast. Watch the VOA segment.

Rozanna Yami, a woman journalist in Saudi Arabia, was pardoned by the country’s King Abdullah for her involvement in a talk show for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation during which a Saudi man talked about his sexual exploits. Yami had been sentenced to 60 lashes on Oct. 24. Read the article in the Los Angeles Times.

Jila Baniyaghoob, a 2009 winner of an IWMF Courage in Journalism Award, received an International Press Freedom Award from Canadian Journalists for Free Expression. Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper of 2009 Courage winner Iryna Khalip, also received an award. Both will be recognized at a CJFE awards ceremony in December.  Read the CJFE release.

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has prepared a comprehensive online guide for journalists covering the H1N1 flu story. The site offers tools for reporters and editors. Visit the Covering Pandemic Flu Web site.

Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent and a member of the IWMF board of directors, will receive a Reporter of the Year Award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York. Helen Thomas, a 1995 winner of the IWMF Lifetime Achievement Award, will be recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award. The awards will be presented Nov. 12. Read more on the organization’s Web site. 

The 2009 IWMF Courage and Lifetime Achievement award winners persevere when reporting, despite threats and attacks on their lives. They spoke about their experiences as journalists at a panel discussion on Oct. 26 at The National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

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Click on the links below to view the acceptance speeches:

• Iryna Khalip
• Agnes Taile
• Amira Hass
  

 

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University has announced a fellowship program in January 2010. Professional journalists with at least two years of business journalism experience are invited to apply. Application deadline is Nov. 2. Read more or apply.

Kathy Gannon, a Canadian journalist who won the IWMF Courage in Journalism Award in 2002, wrote about Afghanistan in Foreign Affairs magazine. Read the article.