Press Release - Journalists from Nigeria and Zambia Win First IWMF Fellowships for International Women Journalists
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Journalists from Nigeria and Zambia Win First IWMF Fellowships for International Women Journalists
For immediate release: March 30, 2004
Fellowships help "create women leaders in journalism," says IWMF Executive Director Lisa Woll
Washington, DC -- Two women journalists from Nigeria and Zambia will receive the first International Women's Media Foundation fellowships for international women journalists. The three-month-long fellowships will provide international journalists with the opportunity for hands-on experience in U.S. media houses so that they can build practical journalism skills to take back to their countries.
"The IWMF is about creating women leaders in journalism," said IWMF executive director Lisa Woll. "The IWMF Fellowships build on our other leadership training programs, but instead of one or two weeks of training, our fellowship winners will have an extended time in which to build and practice new skills. We are very excited to be able to offer this opportunity in conjunction with two leading U.S. media companies, the San Francisco Chronicle and Boston Herald, who will host the winners."
Winners of the 2004 fellowships are:
Gbemisola Olujobi, assistant editor in charge of the Life and Style section of The Guardian in Lagos, Nigeria. Olujobi will spend her fellowship at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she will concentrate on coverage of issues of importance to women. ( Read Gbemisola Olujobi's biography.)
Diana Zulu, an editor at the Zambian Daily Mail in Lusaka, Zambia, will spend her fellowship at The Boston Herald, where she will focus on coverage of health issues. ( Read Diana Zulu's biography.)
Fellows will be in the United States from April 2004 through June 2004. The IWMF Fellowship is funded by Helen and Peter Bing; the Leonard Nimoy and Susan Bay-Nimoy Family Foundation; Linda Peek Schacht; and The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
The International Women's Media Foundation was launched in 1990 with a mission to strengthen the role of women in the news media worldwide, based on the belief that no press is truly free unless women share an equal voice. The African Women's Media Center, based in Dakar, Senegal, is a project of the IWMF. The IWMF network is made up of more than 1,500 women in the media in more than 130 countries worldwide.
For further information, visit the programs section of the IWMF website or e-mail fellowship@iwmf.org.
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