IWMF stands up for women journalists around the globe. Through aggressive advocacy campaigns and its annual Courage in Journalism and Lifetime Achievement awards, IWMF spotlights the courage required to report the news in many parts of the world. Show your support or get involved by clicking below.

Former Courage in Journalism Award winner and Boston Globe correspondent Elizabeth Neuffer died in Iraq in 2003. In 2004, the IWMF helped create this extraordinary fellowship in her honor. The nine-month program combines research at MIT’s Center for International Studies Massachusetts with access to the Boston Globe and New York Times.

In the midst of the HIV/AIDS pandemic the IWMF set out to improve health reporting in Africa. Since 1998, the IWMF has trained Africa’s health reporters, elevated the status of health coverage and published two landmark studies, Deadline for Health and Writing for Our Lives. Learn more about the studies and the program.

With generous support from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the IWMF launched Reporting on Agriculture and Women: Africa, a four-year initiative that 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. Click here to read more.

The South Asia Initiative on Women and HIV/AIDS Policymaking will bring together a small group of women leaders from media, civil society and parliament to help enable them to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Women from target countries Bangladesh, India and Pakistan will participate in the program, which will be held in Washington, D.C., in December 2009. The IWMF is partnering with the Centre for Development and Population Activities and the Center for Women Policy Studies for the initiative, which is supported by the Ford Foundation.

The IWMF is launching two new projects. The first will enhance reporting on rural development issues in Africa. The second involves groundbreaking research into the status of women in the media worldwide. Click the links below for details on past and present studies and updates on our new women in media study, which will measure the career progress of women journalists over time, then use those results to advocate for change.

The IWMF has begun 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 2010.

Six women journalists from India, Kenya and Mexico visited the U.S. in June 2008 to participate in an initiative to reduce the prevalence of HIV/AIDS among women through policymaking. The journalists received training on covering global HIV/AIDS policy issues, met with policy leaders in Washington, D.C., and covered the United Nations High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS in New York. The project, supported by the Ford Foundation, was a collaborative effort among the IWMF, the Centre for Development and Population Activities and the Center for Women Policy Studies.

L’IWMF, Fondation Internationale des Femmes dans les Médias, a fait ses preuves en tant que partenaire affirmé de ces changements qui améliorent les conditions de la vie. Les projets de l’IWMF soutiennent et forment les journalistes, lancent des approches innovantes en matière de reportage sur les grands thèmes d’impact mondial, soutiennent le leadership des femmes journalistes et cultivent un réseau mondial de femmes travaillant dans les medias et le journalisme.