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2011 Courage in Journalism Awards
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In treacherous Tijuana, editor Adela Navarro Bello’s risks are life-or-death
Washington Post, October 26, 2011
By Anne-Marie O’Connor
Tijuana, Mexico — “When will this end?” Adela Navarro Bello, editor of the Tijuana newsweekly Zeta, asked with a look of ire. In Nuevo Laredo, the beheaded body of a blogger, Maria Elizabeth Macias Castro, 39, had been dumped near a computer keyboard with a note signed by a major drug cartel mocking the pseudonym — “Girl From Laredo” — that she had hoped would protect her. >> Read more.
The Dangers of Journalism: When reporting puts you in harm's way
CNN, October 28, 2011
The Most Dangerous Cartel on Earth
ABC News/Yahoo News, October 13, 2011
By Christiane Amanpour, Matthew Drake, David Miller & C. Michael Kim
Woodruff: Being Thankful for a Free Press
PBS NewsHour, October 27, 2011
By Judy Woodruff
For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation. A group of women reporters and I came together to get it off the ground in 1990. With democracy seemingly breaking out around that time in several parts of the globe -- Eastern Europe, South Africa, the Philippines -- we wanted to reach out to any women journalists trying to create a free press in these countries emerging from under the yoke of oppressive governments. >> Read more.
Adela Navarro Bello una periodista valiente
Univision, October 30, 2011
International journalists honored with courage awards
Los Angeles Times
, October 25, 2011
Journalist Adela Navarro Bello of Mexico clutched nervously at the midsection of her orange dress. Parisa Hafezi, from Iran, admitted feeling short on the courage she required. Chiranuch Premchaiporn, from Thailand, needed a deep breath and lots of water. For a few seconds at Monday's gathering in a ballroom at the Beverly Hills Hotel, these women seemed uncertain in the face of pressure, except for the fact of why they were there in the first place. The three are this year’s recipients of the Courage in Journalism awards given by the International Women's Media Foundation, which staged its annual banquet to honor the winners. >> Read more.
Now That's an Inspiring Woman
Glamour magazine, November 2011
By Cindi Leive
Kate Adie and Parisa Hafezi: Profiles of Courage in Journalism
Ms. magazine, October 28, 2011
By Holly Derr
On October 24, the International Women’s Media Foundation honored four women journalists for risking their lives to cover the news. Adela Navarro Bello, general director of Tijuana’s weekly news magazine Zeta, reports on Mexico’s drug cartels despite the fact that her former colleague and editor, Héctor Félix Miranda, was murdered for doing so. >> Read more.
Courage in Journalism
Huffington Post, October 24, 2011
By Tabby Biddle
On Monday night in Los Angeles, the International Women's Media Foundation will honor four brave women journalists who have risked their lives to cover news in their countries. "These courageous women have endured terrible hardships, without questioning their own safety," said IWMF Board Co-Chair Barbara Cochran. "We are honored to tell the world their stories." What follows is my interview with Parisa Hafezi, bureau chief for Reuters in Iran, who is being honored for her courage to report on the violent protests in Iran after the 2009 election. >> Read more.
Periodista mexicana premiada por su valor por informar sobre carteles droga
ABC.es/EFE, October 25, 2011
La Fundación Internacional de Mujeres en los Medios de Comunicación (IWMF) ha premiado a la directora general del semanario mexicano Zeta, Adela Navarro, por su valor por no dejar de informar sobre los cárteles de droga mexicanos a pesar de que dos de sus editores fueron asesinados y ella está amenaza. >> Read more.
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Courage Award International Female Journalists
GlobalGirl Media, November 1, 2011
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Female journalists face danger reporting the news
Yahoo News India/ANI, November 1, 2011
The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) has acknowledged and accepted that women journalists continue to face danger while reporting news from around the world. It recently cited the example of 41-year-old Iranian journalist Parisa Hafezi, who has been beaten, harassed and detained for what she describes as just doing her job. >> Read more.
This Can Get Mark Zuckerberg Arrested
Huffington Post, October 31, 2011
Mark Zuckerberg faces 15 brutal years in a Thai prison. According to the Computer Crimes Act of Thailand, a website owner is responsible for anything written on their site, not just the actual author of the content. So if anyone posts anything on Facebook that is considered illegal in Thailand, Zuckerberg could be held responsible. >> Read more.
Female journalists face danger reporting the news
CBS News, October 31, 2011
By Marissa Calhoun
Over the past 11 years, 41-year-old Iranian journalist Parisa Hafezi has been beaten, harassed and detained for what she describes as just doing her job. Hafezi is Bureau Chief for Reuters in Tehran. There, Hafezi is responsible for overseeing the day to day operations of a 14-person news division tasked with reporting, among many other things, the truth about the Iranian government. She is also one of four female journalists from news organizations all over the world being honored by the International Women's Media Foundation for her courage in the field of journalism. >> Read more.
Iranian Journalist Parisa Hafezi, winner of 2011 Courage in Journalism Award
Payvand Iranian News, October 30, 2011
Three brave women journalists who have risked their lives covering the news have been named the International Women’s Media Foundation’s 2011 Courage in Journalism Award winners. >> Read more.
Editor of Tijuana's Zeta weekly honored
San Diego Union-Tribune, October 29, 2011
Tijuana editor Adela Navarro Bello, who has endured death threats for her publication's coverage of drug traffickers, was honored this week by the International Women’s Media Foundation. Navarro, 43, is editor of the Tijuana weekly Zeta, which has reported extensively on drug traffickers operating in the Baja California region. She was one of four journalists honored by the group during ceremonies in New York and Los Angeles.
>> Read more.
Journalist Chiranuch Premchaiporn Faces Prison Threat
Notes of Life, October 29, 2011
By Shannon Firth
On Thursday, Chiranuch Premchaiporn was given a Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation for refusing to delete comments critical of Thai royalty posted to Prachatai, the online newspaper, where she is the webmaster. >> Read more.
Celebrating Four Brave Journalists (Who Happen To Be Women)
BroadsideBlog, October 29, 2011
By Caitlin Kelly
It’s such an honor for me to sit in the same room as women whose work exemplifies the very best of what we try to do as journalists — uncover and tell important stories, telling truth to power, sometimes in the face of absolutely terrifying pressures. This year, so far, 36 journalists have been killed worldwide just for trying to do their jobs, and many others have been kidnapped, tortured, beaten, shot at and surveilled, their husbands and wives and children threatened with harm by government agents and others. >> Read more.
Three Women Journalists Receive Courage In Journalism Awards
Broowaha, October 29, 2011
By Tony Berkman
The International Women's Media Foundation has honored 3 women journalists who risked their lives to cover the news in their homelands of Iran, Mexico and Thailand with the Courage in Journalism Awards. A fourth award, the Lifetime Achievement Award was given to the BBC's Kate Adie. Katie in her job has covered the news from Afghanistan, the Tiananmen Square protests, the war in Bosnia, has slept in graves, has been shot in the elbow and still has shrapnel in her foot [the Huffington Post.] >> Read more.
Women of Courage Honored
Global Journal, October 28, 2011
By Ami Field
“In Mexico journalists are becoming an endangered species,” said Adela Navarro Bello as she stood on stage in New York to accept a Courage in Journalism Award from The International Women’s Media Foundation. Navarro Bello is general director of Zeta, a newsmagazine in Tijuana, Mexico, that has continued to cover the drug cartels despite the fact that two editors at the magazine have been killed in recent years. Zeta's co-founder, Hector Felix Miranda, was murdered in 1988 and in 2004, co-editor Francisco Ortiz Franco was shot and killed with his two children in the car. >> Read more.
Dangers for journalists
Nogales International, October 28, 2011
By Jonathan Clark
A United Nations report released this week ranked Mexico as the fifth most dangerous country in the world for journalists, with 13 newspeople killed there so far in 2011 and 70 since 2000. As an Associated Press story noted, some watchdog groups have ranked Mexico even higher on the most-dangerous list, while others have put the death toll lower. Either way, there's no question that asking the wrong questions can get a Mexican reporter killed, or at least in big trouble. And while these watchdogs track the number of journalists who have been murdered or gone missing, there's really no way to know how many have been threatened or intimidated into altering their work. >> Read more.
Iranian, Mexican, Thai women win journalism award
San Francisco Examiner, October 27, 2011
By Maria Sanminiatelli, AP
A single mother who was harassed and beaten for reporting on the 2009 Iranian uprising, a Mexican journalist whose work means daily defiance of the drug cartels, and a Thai woman facing 20 years in prison for criticizing the monarchy on her website each received a courage award Tuesday from a women's media group. The International Women's Media Foundation also gave its Lifetime Achievement Award to the BBC's Kate Adie, whose decades on the job have taken her from Afghanistan, to the Tiananmen Square protests to the war in Bosnia. She has slept in graves, been shot in the elbow and still has shrapnel in her foot. >> Read more.
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Four women recognised by IWMF for their courage
TrustMedia, October 27, 2011
Source: IFEX
Four inspiring women journalists from around the world are being honoured this week in New York and Los Angeles by the International Women's Media Foundation. The winners of this year's Courage in Journalism Awards are Adela Navarro Bello, the editor of "Zeta" newspaper in Mexico, Parisa Hafezi, the Reuters bureau chief in Iran and Chiranuch Premchaiporn, a web editor of Thai news website "Prachatai." >> Read more.
Newsers Pack the Waldorf to Honor Women Reporters
TVNewser, October 27, 2011
By Chris Ariens
PBS’ Judy Woodruff was the mistress of ceremony at an awards luncheon of the of International Women’s Media Foundation today at the Waldorf-Astoria. Four women journalists were honored for their work confronting danger while doing their jobs. Among them: Adela Navarro Bello, general director and columnist for Zeta news magazine in Mexico, Reuters Iran bureau chief Parisa Hafezi and Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director and webmaster of the Prachatai online newspaper in Thailand. Kate Adie, a BBC anchor, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award. >> Read more.
IWMF Honours Four Women for Courageous Journalism
Center for International Media Assistance, October 26, 2011
By Joel Gunter, Journalism.co.uk
Three women journalists were recognised for their courage last night for work in Iran, Mexico and Thailand. Adela Navarro Bello, general director and columnist for Zeta news magazine in Mexico, Parisa Hafezi, bureau chief for Reuters in Iran, and Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director of Prachatai online newspaper in Thailand, collected this year's Courage in Journalism awards in Los Angeles, organised by the International Women's Media Foundation. >> Read more.
Mexican editor wins International Women’s Media Foundation courage in journalism award
Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, October 26, 2011
By Veronica Porras
Mexican journalist Adela Navarro Bello has been named one of winners of the International Women’s Media Foundation’s 2011 Courage in Journalism Awards. The awards, which honor women journalists who risk their lives reporting on violence in their countries, will be presented Thursday, Oct. 27, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, according to IWMF. The award winners also were recognized in Los Angeles on Monday, Oct. 24. >> Read more.
IWMF Honors Legendary War Reporter
WomensRadio, October 25, 2011
By Pat Lynch
Kate Adie is a legendary BBC war correspondent and pioneer for women reporters covering war zones around the world. The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) is honoring Kate with its IWMF Lifetime Achievement Award for her courageous reporting for the past 40 years. >> Read more.
IWMF honors four women for courageous journalism
Journalism.co.uk, October 25, 2011
By Joel Gunter
Three women journalists were recognised for their courage last night for work in Iran, Mexico and Thailand. Adela Navarro Bello, general director and columnist for Zeta news magazine in Mexico, Parisa Hafezi, bureau chief for Reuters in Iran, and Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director of Prachatai online newspaper in Thailand, collected this year's Courage in Journalism awards in Los Angeles, organised by the International Women's Media Foundation. >> Read more.
Woman of Courage: An Interview with the BBC's Kate Adie
BlogHer, October 25, 2011
By Mona Gable
I once wanted to be a foreign correspondent. Oh, the thrill of having bombs explode all around you while you’re hunkered down in a ditch! Oh, the glamour of hanging out in some smoky hotel bar in some gritty foreign capital while waiting for the next big story! Oh, the rush of reporting on historic events. In fact, for a few brief moments I did do some war reporting. But I quickly realized I wasn’t cut out for it. Not least of which because I did not like being in the middle of gunfire. >> Read more.
Women journalists honored for bravery
KABC-LA, October 24, 2011
By Leslie Miller
Meet Courage in Journalism Award Winner Adela Navarro Bello, Newsmagazine Director, Mexico
More.com, October 24, 2011
By Lesley Kennedy
Although Adela Navarro Bello has seen her editors murdered for covering the Mexican drug cartels, and has received death threats herself, she has no intention of slowing down when it comes to reporting on the violence in her country. The general director of Zeta newsmagazine in Tijuana, Mexico, is one of four brave women journalists to be honored by the International Women’s Media Foundation at the 2011 Courage in Journalism Awards for risking their lives to cover the news. Two events are slated, for October 24 in Los Angeles and October 27 in New York. >> Read more.
Meet Courage in Journalism Award Winner Chiranuch Premchaiporn, Online Newspaper Director, Thailand
More.com, October 24, 2011
By Lesley Kennedy
Publishing criticism of the government on online forums is not only an expected example of free speech in the United States, it’s encouraged—celebrated, even. But for Chiranuch Premchaiporn, webmaster and director of Prachatai, an online newspaper in Thailand, it could get her 20 years in prison. Premchaiporn, 44, who goes by the nickname Jiew, currently is on trial for failing to immediately take down negative remarks about the Thai monarchy posted on her site —a criminal offense in her country. >> Read more.
Meet Courage in Journalism Award Winner Parisa Hafezi, Reuters Bureau Chief, Iran
More.com, October 24, 2011
By Lesley Kennedy
Parisa Hafezi has been attacked by riot police on the streets of Tehran, targeted by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, endured government interrogations and even been kidnapped as a result of her work. The Iranian-born journalist serves as chief of Reuters' bureau in Iran, and despite her brushes with danger, she refuses to step away from the job she says she loves. >> Read more.
BBC's First Chief News Correspondent Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
More.com, October 24, 2011
By Lesley Kennedy
Reporting from war zones in Bosnia, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone, covering disasters in Bangladesh, massacres in Rwanda and the siege of the Iranian embassy in London? Just part of the job for Kate Adie. The BBC’s first chief news correspondent has traveled the globe, entering extremely dangerous situations, in delivering the news for 40 years. So doing, she has helped pave the way for female journalists worldwide. >> Read more.
IWMF Courage in Journalism Awards Ceremony Tonight in Los Angeles
FishbowlLA, October 24, 2011
By Matthew Fleischer
The International Women’s Media Foundation is holding its annual Courage in Journalism Awards ceremony tonight at The Beverly Hills Hotel. Three women will be honored: Adela Navarro Bello, general director and columnist for Mexico’s Zeta news magazine; Parisa Hafezi, bureau chief for Reuters in Iran; and Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director and webmaster of Thailand’s Prachatai online newspaper. BBC’s Kate Adie will also receive a lifetime achievement award. >> Read more.
Journalist Has Braved Beatings, Arrest
NBC LA, October 23, 2011
By Sharon Bernstein
Iran is a dangerous place to practice journalism – and it’s all the more perilous if the journalist is a woman. Parisa Hafezi, who covers her native country as Iran Bureau Chief for Reuters News, has been warned to stop truth-telling. Her home and office have been raided, and she has endured beatings and arrests. Yet she keeps working. On Monday, the 41-year-old will receive a Courage in Journalism award from the International Women’s Media Foundation at a ceremony in Los Angeles. >> Read more.
EXCLUSIVE: BBC Legend Kate Adie Juggles Work with IWMF Lifetime Achievement Award
FishbowlLA, October 21, 2011
By Richard Horgan
Since flying into Los Angeles earlier this week, famed BBC foreign correspondent Kate Adie has been busy. On Thursday, the 66-year-old journalist was commenting for BBC radio and other international outlets about the capture and killing of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi. Today, from the BBC’s LA offices, she will tape the latest edition of her twice-weekly Radio 4 program From Our Own Correspondent. >> Read more.
Four women journalists honoured for their courage
Source: IFEX
Four inspiring women journalists from around the world are being honoured this week in New York and Los Angeles by the International Women's Media Foundation. The winners of this year's Courage in Journalism Awards are Adela Navarro Bello, the editor of "Zeta" newspaper in Mexico, Parisa Hafezi, the Reuters bureau chief in Iran and Chiranuch Premchaiporn, a web editor of Thai news website "Prachatai". >> Read more.
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