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Towards a global network of women media leaders: WAN-IFRA’s WIN Leadership Accelerator expands reach

2024-08-22. WAN-IFRA Women in News (WIN) is expanding its flagship training and mentorship Leadership Accelerator programme with the launch of the Global Leadership Accelerator. This takes the programme’s reach beyond its traditional 18 markets to offer a transformative opportunity to women who are mid-level newsroom managers in emerging, transitional and fragile states.

Dima Khatib: ‘Freedom of the press starts with the right to life and safety for all’

2024-05-31. Dima Khatib, Managing Director, AJ+, was awarded the WAN-IFRA’s Women in News Editorial Leadership prize at the World News Media Congress in Copenhagen on 29 May 2024. In her acceptance speech, Khatib paid tribute to journalists killed in Palestine in an unprecedented time in terms of the threat to journalists.

Un programa de coaching impulsó la carrera de mujeres profesionales de medios y la de sus equipos

La segunda edición del programa WIN LATAM – Mujeres en las Noticias – reunió a un grupo de 29 profesionales de América Latina en un programa transformador

Shifting perspectives and changing norms in Tanzania

2024-05-17. Our EDITOR TO EDITOR series honours WAN-IFRA’s 2024 Women in News Editorial Leadership Award Laureates, announced this week. Here, Beatrice Bandawe, Managing Editor of The Guardian Limited in Tanzania, reveals her journey as gender advocate and policy reformer.

Exiled, not silenced: amplifying the voices of Myanmar’s ethnic communities – while boosting grassroots journalism

2024-05-17. Our EDITOR TO EDITOR series honours WAN-IFRA’s 2024 Women in News Editorial Leadership Award Laureates, announced this week. Here, Asia regional Laureate Nan Paw Gay, Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Karen Information Center in Myanmar, shares her journey in exile.

AI, bias and experiments: how Women in News is tackling tech’s inbuilt stereotypes

2024-05-17. At the core of issues around bias are accuracy, trust and the quality of data – which, left unchecked, can skew results. AI author and transformation coach Lyndsey Jones unpacks our AI fears – and offers newsroom tips on monitoring and reviewing data.

WAN-IFRA Announces 2024 Women in News Editorial Leadership Award Laureates

2024-05-14. Three outstanding newsroom leaders from Africa, the Arab region and Southeast Asia have been named 2024 Laureates of the Women in News (WIN) Editorial Leadership Award.

‘We are not brave, we are journalists’ – LATAM editor shares newsroom wins, under deadly conditions

2024-03-08. On International Women’s Day, our EDITOR TO EDITOR interview is with an award-winning editor from one of the most dangerous regions of Mexico – officially the deadliest country for journalists. Andrea Miranda has gained respect for starting and building a regional newspaper into a national brand in the most challenging of environments, and doing much for newsroom equality.

Women journalists step into the spotlight of Gaza war to declare solidarity, call for greater global support

2024-03-08. On the eve of International Women’s Day, WAN-IFRA Women in News (WIN) and its partners in the Arab Region met in Jordan to discuss the safety and inclusion of women journalists in war and conflict reporting and called for increased global support for colleagues in Palestine.

No somos valientes, somos periodistas

En el Día Internacional de la Mujer, nuestra entrevista EDITOR TO EDITOR es con una galardonada directora procedente de una de las regiones más peligrosas de México, oficialmente el país más peligroso para ejercer el periodismo. Andrea Miranda se ha ganado el respeto por haber convertido un periódico regional en una marca nacional en el entorno más difícil, y por haber contribuido en gran medida a la igualdad en las redacciones.