The issue of domestic violence is the centerpiece of the award-winning portfolio of American photojournalist Donna Ferrato. In focusing on battered women, Ferrato decided to live among families where violence was prevalent, providing more genuine portraits, but also placing her in considerable danger.

Barbara Walters blazed a distinguished path in television for female journalists as the first woman to co-host a network morning broadcast on NBC's Today Show.

Barbara Walters blazed a distinguished path in television for female journalists as the first woman to co-host a network morning broadcast on NBC's Today Show.

In the year leading up to Kenya's 1992 elections, Catherine Gicheru wrote a series of exclusive reports for the independent daily, The Nation, that exposed involvement of high government officials in the assassination of a local political figure. In retaliation for Gicheru's articles, the Kenyan government banned the paper from covering the Electoral Commission, which oversaw the 1992 presidential election.

When Serbian national forces began their attack on Sarajevo in 1992, Kemal Kurspahic editor-in-chief of Oslobodjenje, vowed to publish for as long as the city stood. Six staff members were killed and 10 wounded, but true to his word, the paper continued to be published - without missing a day - for the three-and-a-half year siege of Sarajevo.

Margaret Moth began her journalism career in her native New Zealand and joined CNN in 1990. She covered the Persian Gulf War, the rioting that followed Indira Gandhi's assassination and the civil war in Tbilisi, Georgia, for CNN before volunteering for the dangerous mission of filming in Sarajevo.

As reporter and editor of Tribuna Enerhetyky, the newspaper of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy plant in Ukraine, Lyubov Kovalevskaya obtained secret docum...

Marites Vitug was a reporter for The Manila Chronicle when she wrote of the plunder of the Philippines' last tropical rain forest by a greedy businessman and a corrupt politician. Her exclusive articles, which appeared in Dow Jones' Far East Economic Review as well as a number of Filipino publications, brought her death threats and a series of libel suits that threatened imprisonment. Despite this, she continued to report about the threats to the rain forest.

Caryle Murphy is a 20-year veteran reporter at The Washington Post. She astonished the world with her courageous reporting from Kuwait, where she hid for 26 days after the invasion by Saddam Hussein in 1990. Eluding Iraqi forces, she managed to file first-hand accounts and send them to her paper with people who were able to get out. Her byline and identity were kept secret until after she safely escaped. Murphy continued her assignment in the Middle East to cover the ensuing war in the Gulf.

As a result of her father's political imprisonment, Florica Ichim was refused education and employment. But she overcame these obstacles and ultimately began her journalism career in the late 1960s. When Ichim refused to join the Communist Party in 1975, she was forced to leave Romania Libera, the paper where she worked. But, ironically, just two days after the December 1989 revolution in Romania, Ichim was elected executive editor by the staff of the newspaper.

Maria Jimena Duzan risked her life by daring to probe for the truth and stand firm for press freedom in a country known for violence against journalists. At age 30, she was already foreign editor, columnist, and chief investigator for the Bogota daily, El Espectador. Hard-hitting and incisive, Duzan took on the dangerous task of writing about the drug trade in Colombia. Her column, "My Zero Hour," was one of the last in the country to use a byline when criticizing drug cartels.

As a reporter for the independent Radio Haiti International in the 1980s, Liliane Pierre-Paul earned a reputation as one of the most outspoken critics of the Duvalier regime. Her fight for liberty persisted through subsequent Haitian governments, which continued to feel the sting of her criticism.

Maria Jimena Duzan risked her life by daring to probe for the truth and stand firm for press freedom in a country known for violence against journalists. At age 30, she was already foreign editor, columnist, and chief investigator for the Bogota daily, El Espectador. Hard-hitting and incisive, Duzan took on the dangerous task of writing about the drug trade in Colombia. Her column, "My Zero Hour," was one of the last in the country to use a byline when criticizing drug cartels.