Featured Programs
Maisha Yetu: Media Campaign for Our Lives
In 2002, working with a $1.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the International Women’s Media Foundation created the Maisha Yetu project to enhance the quality and consistency of reporting on HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria in Africa. Maisha Yetu was created to give African media the means to become more responsive to their communities and to magnify their efforts in reporting on health. Maisha Yetu means “Our Lives” in Swahili
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Program Initiatives -- International
Since its founding in 1990, the IWMF has held programs with an international focus. These seminars have brought together women journalists from around the world to explore strategies for moving ahead, examine the role of women working in international news and share experiences across borders.
The program that launched IWMF, News in the Nineties, was the first international
gathering of women journalists in the media. In November 1990, the IWMF brought
together 100 women journalists from more than 50 countries to examine the state
of the news industry, news technology, the impact of business and economics
and breaking barriers in the newsroom. The first IWMF Courage
in Journalism Awards were presented at this program.
In 2000, the IWMF organized a second major international conference of women
journalists, Women in the News Media: A Focus on Leadership.
A snapshot of past international programs can be found by following these links:
Elizabeth Neuffer IWMF Fund
The Elizabeth Neuffer IWMF Fund is named for a Boston Globe correspondent and 1998 Courage in Journalism Award winner who was killed in Iraq in May 2003. The fund was established by Elizabeth Neuffer's family and friends and the IWMF to perpetuate her memory and advance her life's mission of promoting international understanding of human rights and social justice.
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IWMF Fellowship Program for International Women Journalists
The IWMF Fellowship program offers women journalists from around the world the opportunity to receive on-the-job training with top media companies in the United States. The four-month fellowship is available to women journalists living and working outside of the United States. U.S. and international journalists working in the United States are not eligible.
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2005 Courage in Journalism Awards
The only awards program exclusively for international women journalists, the IWMF's Courage in Journalism Awards honor women journalists who have shown extraordinary strength of character and integrity while reporting the news under dangerous or difficult circumstances. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a woman journalist who has a pioneering spirit and whose determination has paved the way for future generations of women in the media.
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Women in the Media: A Focus on Leadership
For its 10th anniversary, the IWMF brought together more than 100 of the most influential women in news media from 60 countries in May 2000. Women in the Media: A Focus on Leadership was the first gathering of leading women in print, broadcasting and online media around the world.
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