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Parisa Hafezi

Reuters Tehran bureau chief wins top award for media women

Reuters' Tehran bureau chief Parisa Hafezi has won this year's International Women's Media Foundation award for courage in journalism. It honours “extraordinary women journalists from around the world for demonstrating extraordinary strength and determination in pursuing their profession under difficult or dangerous circumstances”. Recipients have often jeopardised their personal safety and careers in the service of freedom, democracy and human rights. As the first Iranian bureau chief working for foreign media in Tehran and the only non-westerner and female Reuters bureau chief in the Middle East, Hafezi has led successful efforts to improve the situation of Reuters in a country where authorities considered the organisation as “the Zionist news agency” >>>

11-May-2011
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