IWMF's PROGRAMS

Digital New Media Entrepreneurs

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.

Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship

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.

Courage in Journalism Awards

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.

4-Year Africa Project

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

Funding HIV/AIDS Investigative Reporting

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.

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Lisa Stone

Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer, Inc. in 2005. With Stone as CEO, the company has grown into a diversified media company reaching 37 million unique visitors monthly.

It is one of the top 11 women’s networks online (comScore) with more than 3,000 premium blog contributors, the world’s largest conferences for bloggers and BlogHer.com, an award-winning social hub.

As principal architect of BlogHer’s distributed, cross-platform media business, Stone works across the company on digital and social strategies that partner Fortune 500 brands with a new wave of content creators. BlogHer was named among the AlwaysOn OnMedia Top 100 for 2011, and one of America’s Most Promising Start-ups by BusinessWeek.

Previously, Stone was Editor-in-chief and VP, Programming for Women.com, then the first Internet journalist awarded a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard University (2002). She left the traditional newsroom (Oakland Tribune, CNN) for the Internet in 1997.

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