2024 Women and Media Awards

The Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP) announced the recipients of the 2024 Women and Media Awards at a ceremony October 27th in Washington, DC.

WIFP honors six media women:

Ann Wright is a writer and a courageous activist for peace and justice. Her writings
have appeared in Common Dreams, LA Progressive, San Francisco Bay View, The
Union, ScheerPost, World BEYOND War, and CODEPINK, Women for Peace. She is
the co-author with Susan Dixon of Dissent: Voices of Conscience: Profiles of
Whistleblowers and Others Who Have Dared to Speak the Truth About the War in
Iraq.

Photo credit: Francois Achan

Ann Wright is a retired U.S. State Department official and retired U.S. Army Colonel who
spoke out against the Iraq War. She served in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia,
Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia and Mongolia. She received the
State Department Award for Heroism in 1997. In March 2003 she resigned from the
State Department the day before the onset of the Invasion of Iraq in protest of the war.
She has since dedicated herself to peace and justice issues, writing knowledgeably for
many varied sources to inform the public about vital issues. She works closely with
many women’s organizations including Code Pink: Women for Peace and Women
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Mariam Barghouti is a Palestinian-American writer, blogger, researcher, commentator,
and journalist. She lives in Ramallah. Her political commentary and research work has
been notably featured in CNN, Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, BBC, Huffington Post,
New York Times, Middle East Monitor, Newsweek, Mondoweiss, International Business
Times and TRT World.

Maha Nazih Al-Hussaini is an award-winning journalist and human rights activist
based in Gaza. Maha started her journalism career by covering Israel’s military
campaign in the Gaza Strip in July 2014. In 2020 she won the Martin Adler Prize for her
work as a freelance journalist. She is the director of strategies at the
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor in Geneva, Switzerland. The International
Women’s Media Foundation rescinded their 2024 Courage in Journalism Award to
Maha Hussaini under pressure. This will not happen with the WIFP Award.

Hind Osama Al-Khoudary is a Palestinian journalist based in the Gaza Strip. She has
reported for multiple media outlets including Al Jazeera English, Middle East Eye, +972
Magazine, RT, The Intercept, and Anadolu Agency.

Lara J. Bitar is an independent media worker based in Beirut, Lebanon, and the
founding editor of journalist-run publication, The Public Source. She contributes reports
on social movements and civic unrest to grassroots media projects in the U.S. and
Lebanon and writes for regional and feminist publications.

Ghadi Francis is a Lebanese journalist and war correspondent. She is a field
correspondent, program producer and writer. She reports on Palestine, Gaza, Lebanon,
Syria, Israel and more with thousands of articles on the region and Arab countries. In
2011 she published a book in which she collected her testimony about the Syrian war
entitled My Pen and My Pain – One Hundred Days in Syria.

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