Every year the IWMF honors brave women journalists who risk political persecution,injury and sometimes death in their efforts to expose corruption and champion human rights.

The 2012 Courage in Journalism Award and Lifetime Achievement Award winners will be announced May 3. They will be honored at Courage in Journalism events in New York on Oct. 24 and Los Angeles on Oct. 29.

With generous support from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the IWMF launched "Reporting on Agriculture and Women: Africa." The project energized the way African media cover one of the most important topics on the continent.

The IWMF helped African journalists to boost coverage of agriculture and rural development and increase women’s voices – both as journalists and as sources – in stories about agriculture

Global Research on Women

The IWMF is working on ground-breaking research on the status of women in the media worldwide. The new study, the Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media, will measure the career progress of women in the news media and use the results to help advocate for change.

The IWMF also tracks past studies on women in the news media, and will draw from this prior work in compiling the Global Report, which will be published in 2011.

4-Year Africa Project

With generous support from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the IWMF launched "Reporting on Agriculture and Women: Africa." The project is energizing the way African media cover one of the most important topics on the continent.
The IWMF is helping African journalists to boost coverage of agriculture and rural development and increase women’s voices – both as journalists and as sources – in stories about agriculture

Linda Mason

Linda Mason, Senior Vice President, Standards and Special Projects at CBS News, is responsible for two of CBS News' weekend broadcasts, "Sunday Morning" and the "CBS Evening News" weekend editions, and is the CBS News representative for National Election Pool (NEP), the consortium of news organizations that conducts exit polling on election days.

As senior vice president, Mason oversees the application of the standards and practices of CBS News and the CBS News Archives, one of the largest television and audio archives in the world. She administers the division's internship and minority recruiting programs.

She headed the internal panel that examined the mistakes of Election Night 2000 for CBS News. The result was an 87-page report cited by media critics for its in-depth and critical look at the procedures and decisions of that night. The investigation and report led to a restructuring of the CBS News Decision Desk, which Mason headed in 2004, among many other changes in CBS News election-night procedures.

Mason has also overseen "CBS Reports," a documentary series for which she served as executive producer; "The Class of 2000.” She helped develop "Before Your Eyes," a series of critically acclaimed primetime specials produced by CBS News which explored national issues through a time-intensive study of a single story. She also served as the executive in charge of "Eye to Eye," the CBS News magazine (1993-95), and the primetime specials, "60 Minutes…25 Years" (1993) and "60 Minutes at 30" (1998).

Prior to her management assignments, Mason was executive producer of "CBS News Sunday Morning" (1987-92) and of CBS News' weekend broadcasts (1986-92). Mason had been a senior producer for the "CBS Evenings News" (1980-86) during the anchorships of both Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather. She became the first female producer on the broadcast when she joined it as a field producer in 1971. She was a writer/associate producer for the "CBS Morning News,"(1968-70). Before that, Mason was a news writer at WCBS-TV, the CBS-owned station in New York. She joined CBS News in January 1966 as a radio desk assistant.

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Courage in Journalism Awards

4-Year Africa Project

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Courage in Journalism Awards

Global Research on Women

4-Year Africa Project

Funding HIV/AIDS Investigative Reporting

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