Sandra Nyaira is a 2002 winner of the IWMF’s Courage in Journalism Award. The former political editor at The Daily News in Zimbabwe, she is pursuing a master’s degree in international journalism at the City University of London. She spoke with the IWMF about the challenges facing women journalists in Zimbabwe.

Aferdita Kelmendi, a 1999 winner of the IWMF's Courage in Journalism Award, is the director of Radio/TV 21, which broadcasts 24 hours a day from Pristina, Kosovo. She spoke with the IWMF about what she has been doing since she won the award and how she has incorporated conflict resolution techniques into her interviewing style.

IWMF: You're in town for a meeting at the U.N. Would you just talk a little bit about that?

For three decades, Veronica Lopez has been instrumental in creating some of Latin America's most successful magazines, including Cosas, Caras and The Saturday Magazine of El Mercurio in Chile and Semana in Colombia. She met Virginia Herrera when Herrera came to work for her soon after graduating from journalism school. The two have been working on a new magazine concept since 2000. They spoke with the IWMF about women in the Latin American media and their mentoring relationship.

IWMF: What is the state of freedom of the press in both Zambia and Nigeria?

One of Yu Ning’s first assignments for Caijing, an independent magazine covering China’s financial markets, was an investigation of Macat Optics and Electronics Co., Ltd., a company that had been accused of inflating its profits. Though she had been a reporter covering business for six years, this type of reporting was a new challenge for the then 32-year-old and she was nervous.

Placing her hands on top of her head, Helen Donovan, executive editor at The Boston Globe, made a sweeping motion.At the IWMF’s networking breakfast M...

In sub-Saharan Africa, where people often keep an HIV-positive diagnosis to themselves because of continuing social stigma and lingering myths, HIV/AIDS remains a taboo subject. But Ntombi Yoko, the host of a program on a community radio station in Cape Town, South Africa, is open about her HIV-positive status on the air each day, where thousands of people listen to her discuss HIV/AIDS. Being open about her status, says Yoko, is being faithful to the title of her show, Positive Living.

The first Elizabeth Neuffer Forum on Human Rights and Journalism, held May 10 at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, was a call to pay attention to human rights abuses around the globe, particularly those against women.

Hu Yan was five years old when she began to accompany her mother, a doctor, on her visits to tend to sick farmers in China’s Jiangsu Province. Following her mother during endless hours tending to patients suffering from everything from small pox to sprains, Hu had a first-hand look at her country’s poor health care system.

Halima Balarabe didn’t start out wanting to be a journalist. After graduating from Ahmadu Bello University with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature, she joined Nigeria’s National Youth Service, a government-funded work placement program, and was assigned to the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria in Kaduna.

If there’s one thing that Hu Yan, a reporter and editor from Shanghai, China, has learned in her journalism career, it’s to "never be shy to ask stupid questions."

Last week’s raid by Kenyan police that dismantled the Nairobi-based Standard Group’s printing press and halted business at its television station, KTN, was the result of controversy about a story in The Standard newspaper on Feb. 26. The story reported that President Mwai Kibaki had met in secret with an opposition leader. Members of the government say the story was inaccurate.