PROGRAMS
The Global Digital News Frontier grants are providing women entrepreneurs financing and professional support to launch innovative start ups.
With generous funding from the Ford Foundation, three digital news media projects have each received $20,000 grants:
Clearhealthcosts.com,
Latitude News and
NewsShed.
Learn more.
The IWMF released a long-awaited global research report on the status of women at the International Conference of Women News Leaders in Washington, D.C.
Top women executives at the conference drafted plans to improve the status of women in their home countries, and heard from industry leaders about the state of the global media. Learn more.
The IWMF empowers women in the news media around the world.
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.
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.
The Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship is named after the 1998 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award winner and The Boston Globe correspondent who was killed in Iraq in May 2003. The 2011-2012 Neuffer Fellow is Jackee Batanda from Uganda.