Network Voices

Diana Nastasia is the regional coordinator for Eastern Europe for the IWMF Global Report on Women in the News Media. She shares her thoughts on the project.

Zadie Neufville is the regional coordinator for the Caribbean for the IWMF Global Report on Women in the News Media. She shares her thoughts on the project.

Marielba Núñez is the regional coordinator for northern Latin America for the IWMF Global Report on Women in the News Media. She shares her thoughts on the project.

Rosemary Okello-Orlale is the regional coordinator for Eastern Africa for the IWMF Global Report on Women in the News Media. She shares her thoughts on the project.

Val Oliveira is the regional coordinator for the United Kingdom and Germany for the IWMF Global Report on Women in the News Media. She shares her thoughts on the project.

Cai Yiping is the regional coordinator for Asia for the IWMF Global Report on Women in the News Media. She shares her thoughts on the project.

Ranjita Biswas is the editor of Trans World features in India. Biswas, who has worked for more than two decades as a journalist, has covered a wide range of subjects with a focus on women and gender issues and HIV/AIDS.

D’Almeida is the deputy editor-in-chief of Radio Klédu in Mali. She has worked for the Malian private radio station for more than five years and reports on the environment and agriculture, as well as human rights issues. D’Almeida participated in the IWMF Africa Leadership Institute in Uganda in February 2009.

Funke Adetutu is a reporter for BusinessDay Newspapers, Nigeria’s leading daily business newspaper. She is based in Lagos.

When Serbian national forces began their attack on Sarajevo in 1992, Gordana Knezevic was deputy editor of the newspaper Oslobodjenje. For the next three-and-a-half years, she worked with editor-in-chief Kemal Kurspahic to keep publishing the newspaper. Six staff members were killed and 10 were wounded, but the paper was published without missing a day. Knezevic and Kurspahic won Courage in Journalism Awards from the International Women’s Media Foundation in 1992.

Teresa Rehman is the principal correspondent for Tehelka Magazine in northeastern India, a conflict-torn region with a high incidence of HIV/AIDS. She is the 2007 recipient of the Sarojini Naidu Prize for best reporting on women and is working on a Ph.D. on folk media.

Miriam Zimba is the managing editor of The Times of Zambia. She is a participant in the IWMF initiative Reporting on Women in Agriculture: Africa, and her newsroom is a Center of Excellence.

Bilbassy-Charters is a correspondent for the Middle East Broadcasting Center in Washington, D.C. She is a former correspondent for Al Arabiya TV, where she covered the White House and the U.S. Department of State. She shared her thoughts on the Middle East.

Rocio Sanchez is a reporter for Letra S: Salud, Sexualidad y Sida, a journalistic supplement that is published on a monthly basis in La Jornada, a national newspaper in Mexico. Sanchez has been reporting on HIV/AIDS since 2003. She received the first national award for health journalism in 2003 from Mexico’s Ministry of Health and Merck Sharp & Dohme Co.

Here are some of the more than 4,000 women journalists who are members of the IWMF Network. IWMF members report the news from more than 30 countries around the globe - from Kosovo to Colombia, India to Zimbabwe, Algeria to the United States. You can read their inspiring stories and Q&As by clicking on their names below. You can also share your thoughts and comments, and expand your professional network by getting in touch with these IWMF colleagues.