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Campbell Brown is an anchor for CNN. She announced in May 2010 that she plans to leave the network. Prior to joining CNN, Brown spent 11 yea...

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Open Society Institute

Director of Research and Training

Leadership Circle Members Fiscal Year 2008 Supporters Leadership Circle Members (As of August 24, 2009) Visionaries - $25,000 or aboveLoreen Arbu...

Colombia is one of the most dangerous beats in the world. In 2000 and 2001 alone, six reporters were killed there because of their work. In this dangerous environment, Maria Cristina Caballero developed into one of her country's toughest and most respected investigative journalists. She left Colombia in 1999 after receiving death threats. Currently a Mason Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University, Caballero writes frequently about the political situation in Colombia for U.S. publications. (March 2002)

Narda Zacchino, assistant executive editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, became a journalist in the 6th grade when she started a school newspaper. She got her first paying job in college as a copy editor for a group of weekly newspapers in San Diego. Zacchino rose from reporter to masthead editor during more than 30 years at the Los Angeles Times. (September 2002)

Akwe Amosu is executive editor/producer for AllAfrica Global Media and its website, allAfrica.com. She has worked in the print and broadcast media as an editor and reporter. Before taking her current job, she worked for the BBC World Service in London. (September 2002)

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.