Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world, fighting for peace, justice, the environment and civil society. In this program we profile three independent journalists, unbought and unbossed. Women journalist heroines!
Featuring:
Giuliana Sgrena, Italian journalist, kidnapped by Iraqi resistance fighters while on assignment, then shot by US soldiers on her release; María Suárez, founder, FIRE: Feminist International Radio Endeavor of Costa Rica; Sarah Olson, US journalist, broke the story of Army Lieutenant Ehren Watada’s refusal to deploy to Iraq.
Women Rising Producer: Lynn Feinerman
Women Rising Host: Sandina Robbins
Women Rising Engineer: Stephanie Welch
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