Bravery On the Front Line :: Female Journalists Honored
On October 18th in New York City, the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) honored several outstanding female journalists at its 2017 Courage in Journalism Awards. The honorees were selected for “exhibiting extraordinary bravery and courage as they reported from areas of instability, oppression, and conflict”.
This year’s honorees included:
Deborah Amos, Middle East Correspondent for NPR News, who has worked on numerous front lines, covered Syria’s violent and protracted crisis, and was kidnapped in Somalia;
Saniya Toiken, a reporter for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Kazakhstan, who has been harassed, threatened, and scrutinized for her reporting on government corruption and labor issues; and
Hadeel al-Yamani, who is the first woman television correspondent for Al Jazeera Arabic in Yemen and has covered the civil war.
Andrea Mitchell, long-time Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for NBC News and host of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” received IWMF’s Lifetime Achievement Award for entering her fifth decade of political reporting.
