On the Issues Episode 134: Kiran Nazish

Описание: Today’s guest is Kiran Nazish, an award-winning journalist, professor, and founding director of the Coalition for Women in Journalism and Women Press Freedom. In this episode, Alon and Kiran discuss the state of press freedom in the United States and the transgressions that the Trump administration has committed against them; how the United States relates to other countries known as violators of press freedom; and how to protect journalists by strengthening democratic institutions.

Full bio
Kiran Nazish is an award winning journalist, professor and founding director of the Coalition For Women In Journalism and Women Press Freedom.

Kiran Nazish spent two decades as a journalist and foreign correspondent covering Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Mexico and many other places in a post 9/11 world for the New York Times, LA Times, MSNBC, ABC News, USA Today and many others. Witnessing the inequality and discrimination women journalists faced in newsrooms around the world, she founded the Coalition For Women In Journalism. An organization that is closing the gender gap in the industry.

The CFWIJ is New York based and works globally with much of its work focused on support and advocacy for women, LGBTQ and non binary journalists. In 2019 Kiran Launched the Press Freedom Newsroom to bring awareness to how women journalists in particular are targeted by repressive regimes. This newsroom started with monitoring 12 countries and now (within 2 years) covers violations from 145 countries around the world. Kiran’s career spans two decades, and many regions including the Middle East, South Asia and Mexico, where she covered stories from the frontline of conflict, democracy and human rights. She was also selected as the Stanley Knowles Distinguished Professor in 2019 and 2020. And a senior fellow at New America Foundation in Washington D.C. in 2016, where she shared her expertise in the International Security Program.

Before Kiran’s initiative, launching the Press Freedom Newsroom, there was no systematic data for women targeted for their work.