As three women receive the Nobel Peace Prize , Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Tawakul Karman and Leymah Gbowee, women journalists are also gaining significant recognition for their admirable work around the world.
This week the Pakistan Rural Media Network awarded its press freedom award toSadia Sehar Haideri, a video journalist based in Islamabad. At the award presentation speakers highlighted the importance of allowing women the opportunities to rise through the ranks and attain positions of power within media organisations and to rectify the numerical disparity between the numbers of male and female district correspondents in Pakistan.
On October 6, Alex Crawford also received the prestigious James Cameron Memorial Award for her coverage of the Libyan uprising and events in Middle East. The award was presented by Professor George Brock, head of journalism at City University London, who stated that the award is bestowed to a "British journalist working on international affairs who, in the opinion of the judges, demonstrates James Cameron's qualities in her or his work and shows professional integrity and moral courage", something that Alex Crawford has certainly shown through out her career and in particularly in her recent coverage of the Libyan uprising for Sky News.
Crawford is no stranger to recognition, having been named this year's Royal Television Society Television Journalists of the Year, yet receiving The James Cameron Memorial Award clearly meant a lot to her: "to be mentioned in the same breath as him is both astonishing to me and a massive honour."
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