An interactive map illustrates the regions of the world where the IWMF is conducting research for its Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media. Learn about regional coordinators for each part of the world by clicking on the map.

The Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media measures the career progress of women in the news media, and the IWMF will use the results of the research to help advocate for change. The report will be published in 2010.

• See the interactive map.
• Learn more about the project.

The International Women's Media Foundation is seeking a part-time, unpaid intern for the fall semester. The intern will undertake research projects on international women journalists, work to update database contacts and complete other duties as needed. Preferred applicants are students in accredited colleges or universities with a focus on international studies and/or journalism. For specific duties and details, or to submit a cover letter, please contact Tara Hayward at thayward@iwmf.org.

Jila Baniyaghoob, a 2009 winner of an IWMF Courage in Journalism Award, wrote an open letter to her husband, journalist Bahman Ahamadi Amoee, while he is in prison in Iran. He and Baniyaghoob were imprisoned in June during the country’s post-election protests; Baniyaghoob was released in August. Read the letter.

Katty Kay, a Washington correspondent and anchor for BBC World News America, spoke on The Diane Rehm Show on Sept. 9. Kay and Claire Shipman, senior national correspondent for ABC News' Good Morning America, discussed their new book, Womenomics, which asserts that women want a better work-life balance. Listen to the broadcast.

Below are two maps that display the regional coordinators and their regions.

Click here for Map 1

Regions: North America, Northern Latin America, Southern Latin America, Carribean, Nordic Europe, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, West Africa, North Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa and Middle East.

Click here for Map 2

Regions: Southern Africa, South Asia, Asia, and Oceana

Click on a region to see the coordinator's information:

Ranjita Biswas is the editor of Trans World features in India. Biswas, who has worked for more than two decades as a journalist, has covered a wide range of subjects with a focus on women and gender issues and HIV/AIDS.

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is accepting applications for the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Projects must use digital, open-source technology, distribute news in the public interest and be tested in a local community. Deadline is Oct. 15. Read more on the News Challenge Web site.

Journalists, advocates, researchers and others are invited to apply for Soros Justice Fellowships, which fund innovative projects that advance the Open Society Institute's criminal justice reform priorities in the United States. Deadline is Oct. 14. Visit the Soros Web site for details.

The Russia Supreme Court ordered on Sept. 3 a new investigation into the death of Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist who was a 2002 winner of an IWMF Courage in Journalism Award. The court’s decision reversed an earlier ruling in which four men were acquitted in Politkovskaya’s death. Read more in The New York Times.

Diane Sawyer will begin anchoring ABC World News in January. She will be the second woman to hold this position on current network television; Katie Couric is the CBS Evening News anchor. Sawyer will succeed ABC’s Charlie Gibson. Read the Washington Post article.

Euna Lee and Laura Ling, America journalists who were detained in March in North Korea, speak out for the first time about the circumstances surrounding their arrest. The journalists were released in August. Read the account on the Current TV Web site.

BBC Journalist Firle Davies is the 2009-10 IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow. She has spent most of her career working in Africa.

by Peggy Simpson Firle Davies’ grandparents emigrated to Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) from a grim postwar England in the 1950s. Both of her parents b...

The editorial staff of The Post in Zambia was summoned on contempt charges prompted by an op-ed commenting on the prosecution of Chansa Kabwela, the paper’s news editor. The Post published an op-ed last week by Cornell University law professor Muna Ndula that was critical of Kabwela being prosecuted for circulating obscene materials. The charges facing the rest of the staff carry a maximum penalty of six months in prison. 

• Learn more and sign the IWMF petition for Kabwela. 
• Read the CPJ alert.

Kim Bolan, a 1999 winner of the IWMF Courage in Journalism Award, is a finalist for an online topical reporting/blogging award from the Online News Association for her blog, The Real Scoop. Bolan has worked at The Vancouver Sun since 1984. Award winners will be announced Oct. 3. Read more about the Online Journalism Awards.