Upon returning to China, Hu, the health desk editor at the Shanghai Star and a public health reporter for China Daily, shared some of what she learned with her colleagues. She held presentations on subjects such as medical reporting and media ethics and also helped the National Committee on United States-China Relations develop a media education project on HIV/AIDS reporting in China.

All the money in his bank account.

When Cheryl Corley began her radio career, she spliced tape with a razor blade.

Woodstock meets American Idol.

We all deal with conflict on a daily basis, and in a newsroom, it can be exacerbated by tight deadlines.

Being a good leader is like conducting a symphony: You don't necessarily know how to play each instrument but you do know how to make the instruments work together to produce music.

Show me the money! This exclamation may have worked in the movie Jerry Maguire, but Hollywood tactics are not likely to have the effect you're hoping ...

Badly-run news organizations will fail.

Thank you.

I was propelled into journalism by a passion for Russia and by extension the Soviet Union. As a young reporter I met Andrei Sakharov, a gentle giant in the field of human rights. In his cramped Moscow apartment I literally sat at his feet with my microphone. He was courageous and I simply could not fail him and the many others working with him.

Since the time I held my father’s hand as a child, I got to know poverty, suffering and the struggles of Guatemalan families from the marginal areas of the city.

Today I feel like Cinderella at the ball in the well-known fairy tale. I would like to thank all those who have made it possible. I would also like to express my heart-felt gratitude to Hal Foster, a journalist formerly with the Los Angeles Times, who made my story known in the United States and other countries of the world.

Dear colleagues and friends, good afternoon.

I want to express my deepest gratitude to the International Women’s Media Foundation for this Lifetime Achievement Award that I’m honored to receive.

Lilianne Pierre-Paul, who won the IWMF’s Courage in Journalism Award in 1990, describes herself as a “journalist of the people.” Since 1977, she has defied Haiti’s elites by writing and broadcasting in Creole, the native language of Haiti.

Winning the IWMF’s Courage in Journalism Award in 1991 helped Marites Vitug survive a huge libel suit that had been filed against her by a Filipino timber tycoon with ties to a leading politician. The suit was filed in response to stories Vitug wrote in 1987-1988 for the Manila Chronicle and the Far Eastern Economic Review about the plunder of the Philippines’ last tropical rain forest. When she wrote the stories, Vitug was a freelance investigative reporter. Both the newspaper and the magazine stood behind her stories, but she still had major legal costs.

Cecilia Valenzuela won the IWMF’s Courage in Journalism Award in 1993 in recognition of her many investigative stories about then-Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and his strongman intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos.