Three women awarded for courageous journalism.

Three female journalists recieved awards for bad ass journalism. via AP…
An Associated Press war photographer from Germany, a crime reporter from Bangladesh who was stabbed and beaten, and the founder of a magazine threatened with closure by Iran’s government because of its coverage of women’s rights all received Courage in Journalism Awards Tuesday from the International Women’s Media Foundation.
The foundation’s 15th annual awards were presented to Anja Niedringhaus, Sumi Khan and Shahla Sherkat at a luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria attended by more than 500 people who support its belief that “no press is truly free unless women share an equal voice.”

This is bad-ass.
Sumi Khan, of the Samakal daily, is one of only a few women journalists in Chittagong and has received many threats over the nature of her work.
She has reported on politics, crime, Islamic fundamentalism and corruption. She was attacked and beaten in 2004.
Khan was presented with her prize at the foundation’s 15th annual awards ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York on Tuesday night.
“People always ask me whether I’m afraid,” she said in her acceptance speech.
“No, I’m not. They are afraid. I believe my pen is mightier than all of their weapons. Long live courageous journalism.”


Khan survived a near death attack and continues writing. If it were not for this type of journalism and the bravery of women like this, we wouldn’t have a line to write. Straight, gangsta.

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