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Four brave women journalists who have risked their lives covering
the news will be honored by the International Women’s Media Foundation with Courage in Journalism Awards
and a Lifetime Achievement
Award in
IWMF’S Courage in Journalism
Award winners face daunting challenges reporting the news in their
countries. Mexican drug cartels have threatened to kill Zeta editor Adela Navarro
Bello and have already murdered two
Zeta editors, Iranian officials have targeted and harassed Reuters
bureau chief Parisa Hafezi and Thai authorities have charged Prachatai editor Chiranuch
Premchaiporn with breaking the law for allowing 10 strangers to post anti-royal
comments on her website. Premchaiporn is standing trial now, facing up
to 20 years in prison in a test of Internet freedom.
Legendary reporter Kate Adie, BBC’s first chief news correspondent, will be
awarded the IWMF’s Lifetime
Achievement Award. Adie has paved the way for future generations of
women journalists by covering breaking news from
“These courageous women have endured terrible hardships, without questioning
their own safety. They face danger and violence to report the day’s most
important stories, despite being targeted by authorities,” said IWMF Board
Co-Chair Barbara Cochran. “We are honored to tell the world their stories.”
At the
IWMF Courage Co-Chair Judy Woodruff of the PBS NewsHour will oversee the
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will deliver a videotaped message at
the events congratulating the women journalists for their brave efforts
reporting the news.
The Courage
National Presenting Sponsor is Bank of America. Co-Chairing the events are
Bloomberg News and Walmart Stores, Inc. For information about purchasing
tickets check here. Working press interested in interviewing
the award winners and covering the events should contact IWMF’s Jane Podesta at
jpodesta@iwmf.org.
Adela Navarro Bello, Courage in Journalism Award
Navarro, general
director and columnist for Zeta news magazine in
Parisa
Hafezi, Courage in Journalism Award
Hafezi, bureau
chief for Reuters in
Chiranuch
Premchaiporn, Courage in Journalism Award
Premchaiporn,
43, director and webmaster of Prachatai online newspaper
in
Kate
Adie, Lifetime Achievement Award
Adie, a veteran
broadcast journalist, has been presented with the IWMF’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Adie, a presenter on BBC Radio 4’s “From Our Own
Correspondent,” has covered the world for more than 40 years, reporting
breaking news from Tiananmen Square and Lockerbie to