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Woman Journalist in Somalia Receives Death Threats
Bisharo Waeys, a television journalist in Somalia, escaped attempts on her life on May 4. Waeys was driving to her home in Bossasso when she came under fire from several armed men but escaped by accelerating quickly and driving away. The next day, she received two text messages threatening to kill her if she did not stop her program. Waeys is the only woman working openly as a journalist in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in northeastern Somalia.
Read about Waeys on Reporters Without Borders' Web site.
Gender Analysis Released by the MIW Radio Group
The Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio Group has released a 2007 Gender Analysis study. According to the study, out of more than 10,000 radio stations, only about 15 percent have women general managers. For full details, click the link below to read the report.
Read the PDF of the MIW Report.
Former Lifetime Award Winner Reports for Newsweek
Peta Thornycroft, the recipient of a 2007 IWMF Lifetime Achievement Award, wrote an article for Newsweek magazine about the situation in Zimbabwe. "We forgot to remember that Mugabe's democratic urges are never more than brief spasms," she wrote.
Read Thornycroft's piece in Newsweek.
Past Poll Results
How much coverage does your country give to international news?| a lot |  | 25.0% |
| a fair amount | | 41.7% |
| very little | | 33.3% |
| Convergence of media companies | | 22.0% |
| Who defines news | | 27.4% |
| Public trust (or distrust) in the media | | 25.2% |
| Journalism ethics and values | | 25.4% |
The IWMF hosted a roundtable of top women in the media to discuss these and other issues facing the industry. Find out what these women had to say at the roundtable.
| Yes | | 13.6% |
| No | | 86.4% |
In the Features section of the IWMF web site, Ammu Joseph discusses how the media responded to large-scale and brutal crimes against women during sectarian violence and women journalists from Latin America describe women and the media in Latin America.
Read Ammu Joseph’s article and “What is Missing from the Latin America Media”.
| Yes | | 80.0% |
| No | | 20.0% |
Julie Moos, News Editor at Poynter Online, asked several editors that same question. What she found out surprised her. Read the responses in the Poynter Ethics Journal
| Crime | | 18.2% |
| Terrorism | | 7.3% |
| Political Corruption | | 54.5% |
| AIDS/other infectious diseases | | 20.0% |
According to a 2002 project undertaken by the Pew Research Center, the top problem people feel their countries face is crime at 19 percent, followed by AIDS/other infectious diseases (13%), political corruption (11%) and terrorism (5%). Read more of the study’s findings.