When Huda Ahmed was named IWMF’s 2006-07 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow, her mother told her to “keep this happiness in your heart” in ord...

Hubbie Hussein Al-Haji said she’s lived in conflict since the day she was born.

Curiosity. Passion. A deep desire to understand the world.These attributes of Elizabeth Neuffer, a correspondent for The Boston Globe who was killed o...

For more than five years, Sally Sara traveled solo throughout Africa’s hot spots, finding and filing stories for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Just three weeks after attending the IWMF's Women Reaching for the Top: Initiatives for Media Leadership workshop, held in New York in February, Tanis...

Before finally being hired by The Boston Globe, Renee Loth, now the paper’s editorial page editor, was turned down four times for a job. Speaking on a panel of successful women in the media as part of the IWMF’s recent leadership workshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Loth said that she learned perseverance from that experience. She also credits her successful career path at The Globe to having learned the importance of “putting up your hand” and being available for career opportunities.

The voices of the panelists all belonged to women, but the subjects they discussed weren’t defined by gender.Instead, the stellar lineup of seve...

When she teaches journalists how to resolve conflict in newsrooms, Jill Geisler likes to show a film clip from the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding. In ...

April 2005

Fatmatta Kamara, a producer and editor at the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service, attended the recent Carole Simpson Leadership Institute (CSLI) and HIV/AIDS Training Institute in Ghana because she wanted to learn how to exert her leadership in a male dominated newsroom.

Employees are required to follow directions from their managers. They can choose to follow a leader.

Change is inevitable when you work in a news organization. Whether a news company changes leadership, decides to alter layout, revamps programs or attempts to increase circulation, it will have an impact on everyone in the newsroom. “It’s really hard these days to not be faced with lots of change,” said Carmen Lamar, a management consultant to media companies, at the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Leadership Institute for Women Journalists held in Chicago in July.

Dorcas Phirie has taken time to understand herself.