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Teresa Rehman, who was a participant in the South Asia Initiative on Women and HIV/AIDS Policymaking, received the 2010 Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award from the President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil. The Ramnath Goenka Foundation recognizes the best of India’s journalists. Read more on the Ramnath Goenka website.

IAPA Announces 2009 Winners for Excellence in Journalism in the Americas

The Inter American Press Association announced the winners of the Excellence in Journalism in the Americas awards. The IAPA annually honors journalists and newspapers throughout the Americas for their contributions to excellence in journalism and the defense of freedom of expression. Several women throughout the Americas were winners.
See the list of winners.

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IRP Offers Gatekeeper Trip to Liberia

The International Reporting Project is currently accepting applications for the 2010 IRP Gatekeeper Trip to Liberia. Over the course of 10 days (Nov. 7-18) senior U.S. editors and producers will be exposed to an assortment of topics including health, environment, economic recovery and development, women’s rights and refugee resettlement. The application deadline is Sept. 13. More information about the trip and the application are on the IRP website.

World Pulse Seeks Columnists for Global Correspondents Network

World Pulse is beginning a new initiative called the Global Correspondents Network and is looking for columnists who would be able to contribute regular columns for its print and online magazine on a range of pressing social issues. Contact Putsata Reang at putsata(at)worldpulse.com for more information.

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Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow

Pakistani Journalist Rabia Mehmood is the 2010-11 IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow. She covers courts, crime, human rights and politics in the Lahore bureau of Express 24/7 Television in Pakistan.>

Rabia Mehmood

Leadership Institute

Participants in the 2009 IWMF U.S. Leadership Institute learned how to become leaders in the media. The IWMF checked in with a few of them recently to find out how the institute impacted their careers.

2009 institute participant Melodie Warner

Courage in Journalism Awards

The IWMF has announced winners of the 2010 Courage and Lifetime Achievement Awards. Award ceremonies will be held in New York and Los Angeles in October.

Read the press release.

Courage in Journalism Awards

Agriculture Mentor

Reporting on Agriculture and Women: Africa project trainers visited visited Howard G. Buffett's farm in Pana, Ill., to learn about agricultural techniques and food production in the United States.

Buffett demonstrates farm equipment

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IWMF Speaks Out for Courage Award Winner

The IWMF has written a letter to Iranian and United Nations authorities on behalf of Iranian journalist Jila Baniyaghoob, winner of a 2009 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award. Baniyaghoob was sentenced to one year in jail and banned from practicing journalism for 30 years by the Revolutionary Court in Tehran.

Her lawyer placed an appeal on June 27, arguing that Baniyaghoob has twice been found innocent of charges and should not be placed in jeopardy again.

The IWMF is calling for the dismissal of charges against Baniyaghoob and for the release of her husband, journalist Bahman Ahmadi Amoyee, who is in prison in Iran.

Read our letter and sign the petition.

Reporting on Agriculture: Voices from the Field

The IWMF features exemplary articles from the Reporting on Women and Agriculture: Africa project that are submitted by local trainers in the target countries of Mali, Uganda and Zambia. Articles demonstrate the goals of the project, which trains reporters to effectively cover agriculture, the role of women in transforming food production and rural development in African countries.

The current featured article is a Daily Monitor article about a woman whose small-scale, rural project has grown into an important agricultural endeavor.

Read about the article.

IWMF Network Voices

"I think women journalists here are expanding their capacities and stretching themselves intellectually and professionally to encompass different forms of media…"

Tayyibah Taylor, United States

Tayyibah Taylor is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Azizah, a magazine for Muslim-American women. She attended the IWMF U.S. Leadership Institute for Women Journalists in 2008. More...

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