IWMF's PROGRAMS
The Global Digital News Frontier grants are providing women entrepreneurs financing and professional support to launch innovative start ups.
Read about the 2012 start-ups selected to receive $20,000 each in seed money
here.
April 30 is the deadline for the Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship, named after IWMF Courage in Journalism Award winner and Boston Globe correspondent who was killed in Iraq in May 2003. The 2011-2012 Neuffer Fellow was Jackee Batanda from Uganda.
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
The IWMF established fellowships to train journalists in South Africa to write investigative reports on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. With support from the M*A*C AIDS Fund, these experienced journalists conducted interviews and wrote in-depth research for their publications.