The Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio Group has released a 2007 Gender Analysis study. According to the study, out of more than 10,000 radio stations, only about 15 percent have women general managers. For full details, click the link below to read the report. Read the PDF of the MIW Report.

Peta Thornycroft, the recipient of a 2007 IWMF Lifetime Achievement Award, wrote an article for Newsweek magazine about the situation in Zimbabwe. "We forgot to remember that Mugabe's democratic urges are never more than brief spasms," she wrote.  Read Thornycroft's piece in Newsweek.

Leila Fadel, the Baghdad bureau chief for McClatchy newspaper company, was interviewed by Bill Moyers on April 18. Six Iraqi women from the McClatchy bureau that Fadel leads won a 2007 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award. Click here to watch the interview and read the transcript.

Chinese authorities have detained reporter Jamyang Kyi, a television broadcaster at the state-run television station in Qinghai. Kyi, also a well-known singer, has written about subjects such as women's rights and the trafficking of girls. Her computer and a list of contacts was confiscated by authorities.  Read an article in The New York Times.

Two women journalists working for a radio station in Mexico were shot and killed earlier this month. Teresa Bautista Flores and Felicitas Martínez worked for La Voz que Rompe el Silencio (The Voice that Breaks the Silence). It is not yet clear if the journalists' deaths were related to their work.  Read the RSF report.

Lydia Cacho, a 2007 recipient of the IWMF Courage in Journalism Award, was named the 2008 winner of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. She will be recognized in a ceremony in Mozambique on World Press Freedom Day.  Read more on the UN Web site.

Reporters Without Borders reports that a pedophilia-related presentation by 2007 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award winner Lydia Cacho was blocked by Mexican authorities. A wall poster announcing a presentation about Cacho's new book was removed; authorities said it "did not meet safety standards." Additionally, local newspapers and radio stations canceled interviews with her. Cacho's new book, Memories of Infamy, includes an account of her December 2005 arrest and the various attacks and intimidation attempts to which she was subjected after the publication of her book, The Demons of Eden, in 2004.   Read the RSF article.

Two journalists who covered the North Caucasus were murdered in Russia last week. Ilyas Shurpayev, a correspondent for Russian state television's Channel One, was found strangled and stabbed in his Moscow apartment on March 21. Gadzhi Abashilov, head of the state radio and television company Dagestan, was shot dead in Makhachkala, also on March 21. Read the CPJ alert.

Miller, an IWMF board member and foreign editor of the Los Angeles Times, was interviewed March 24 on The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer. Miller joined other editors and reporters to speak about media coverage of the war in Iraq now that the U.S. military death toll has hit 4,000. Read the interview transcript.

The Justice and Journalism Fund provides direct support to journalists or news organizations in various media for projects on social justice issues. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or legal U.S. residents. Application deadline is Sept. 30.  Visit the USC Annenberg Web site for details.

Entries are now being accepted for the Claudio Accardi Award, which provides financial assistance to young people who report on war. The award is open to young journalists, including freelancers, as well as aspiring journalists and students enrolled in journalism schools. Deadline is Sept. 10. Visit the Web site for details.

The Rory Peck Trust is now accepting entries for its international awards, which recognize freelance cameramen and camerawomen. Deadline is Sept. 2. Visit the Web site for details or to apply.

The Open Society Institute is now accepting applications for a fellowship that will enable innovative professionals -- including journalists and academics -- to work on projects that inspire meaningful public debate, shape public policy and generate intellectual ferment within the OSI. Fellowship applications are considered on a rolling basis, so there is no exact deadline. Visit the OSI Web site for details.

Panos Institute South Asia is now accepting applications for media fellowships on conflict reporting in Northeast India. Print, radio and television journalists are invited to apply. The fellowship will run from July 2008 - June 2009. Deadline is June 5. Visit the Panos Web site for details.

Applications are now being accepted for Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships, which offer a cultural and professional exchange program for journalists. Applicants must be full-time journalists and citizens of a developing country. Deadline is Aug. 1.