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Courage in Journalism Awards

Every year the International Women’s Media Foundation honors brave women journalists who risk political persecution,injury and sometimes death in their efforts to expose corruption and champion human rights.

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

Funding HIV/AIDS Investigative Reporting

The IWMF is establishing 10 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 will conduct interviews and write in-depth research for their publications in 2011.

News

2012

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AJR Features IWMF's 2011 Digital Media Start-Ups

 

All four of IWMF’s 2011 Women Entrepreneurs in the Digital News Frontier grant winners are featured this month in the American Journalism Review talking about how there is life after leaving the traditional newsroom.

Former New York Times editor Jeanne Pinder talks about the challenges of running ClearHealthCosts website, which was inspired when she got a $1,419 medical bill and she asked, “Why?”

"Veteran journalists like Pinder sometimes admit to falling behind the new-media curve as their industry embraces the Internet. But a growing number are taking the skills learned in the newsroom and their personal brands to launch online start-ups," AJR reports.

Digital new media winners Lissa Harris and Julia Reischel, who launched Watershed Post website, won national attention for coverage of Hurricane Irene. And new media entrepreneur Maria Balinska's Latitude News spent  20 years working at the BBC in London before launching her start-up.
Four Women Media Leaders Join IWMF Board of Directors

Four new members have joined the International Women's Media Foundations Board of Directors.
They are:
 
Parisa Khosravi, senior vice president for international newsgathering at CNN. Khosravi is responsible for international and domestic newsgathering operations, which include more than 100 correspondents at 45 bureaus worldwide. She also oversees International Newsource, the network’s international affiliate division that services more than 200 CNN affiliates worldwide. Khosravi joined CNN as a video journalist in 1987.
 
Linda Mason, vice president, standards and special projects at CBS News. Mason 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, the consortium of news organizations that conducts exit polling on election days. Mason joined CBS News as a radio desk assistant in 1966.
 
Debra Adams Simmons, editor of The Plain Dealer  in Cleveland, Ohio since 2010. Simmons joined The Plain Dealer as managing editor in 2007 following four years as vice president and editor of the Akron Beacon Journal. She has previously worked at The Detroit Free Press, The Virginian-Pilot, The Hartford Courant and the Syracuse Herald-Journal.
 
Lisa Stone, co-founder of BlogHer, Inc. Since Stone started BlogHer in 2005, it has grown into a diversified media company reaching 37 million unique visitors monthly. Stone works across the company on digital and social strategies that partner Fortune 500 brands with a new wave of content creators. Previously, Stone was editor-in-chief and VP, programming for Women.com.
 
Leading the IWMF Board of Directors as co-chairs are Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and Katty Kay of BBC World News America. The Board secretary is Carolan K. Stiles of the Blue Creek Foundation, and the treasurer is Jennifer Moyer of Alarm.com.
 
For full bios of members of the IWMF’s 2012 Board of Directors,  read here.
Board Names Elisa Lees Muñoz Named Acting IWMF Executive Director

Elisa Lees Muñoz has been named as the International Women's Media Foundation's  Acting Executive Director.

Lees Muñoz brings over 20 years of experience as a human rights activist leading organizations that promote the engagement, training and leadership of women in the news media around the world. She will take over with the departure of Liza Gross, who is leaving to develop a hemisphere-wide gender initiative.
 
“I am very pleased to welcome Elisa into this role,” said Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., co-chair of the IWMF, “She brings a passionate understanding of our mission and a deep knowledge of our operation and programs.”
 
Katty Kay, co-chair of the IWMF added, “Elisa will build on the many successes of Liza Gross.  The whole of the IWMF would like to thank Liza for her leadership over the past three years and wish her well.”
 
“I am honored by the trust that the board is placing in me,” said Lees Muñoz, “I look forward to leading our team in delivering our promise to support women journalists and working with IWMF Board members Christiane Amanpour and Cynthia McFadden, who will lead the selection of this year’s Courage in Journalism and Lifetime Achievement Award winners and who will co-host the New York Courage ceremony in October.”
 
The IWMF will be conducting a formal search to fill the IWMF Executive Director position.
 

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