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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
This week on Making Contact, women journalists speak about dangers confronting women journalists both on the frontlines of war and covering dangerous issues at home.
Featured speakers/guests:
Sara de Jong, (Former) Deputy General Secretary of the International News Safety Institute, and an organizer of an International Federation of Journalists conference on the Safety of Female Journalists; Olga Rodriquez, human rights journalist and war correspondent, received 2014 award from the Human Rights Association of Spain – in 2003 she was in Iraq for Cadena SER, Spain’s national broadcaster; Jacqueline Aubenas, mother of kidnapped French war correspondent; Nadia Azhgikhina, Russian political journalist and current Vice Chair of the European Federation of Journalists; Asil Al Akhras, national newpaper journalist; a broadcaster and agencies reporter from Palestine; anonymous national newspaper reporter from Africa (under threat); pseudonymous national news reporter from Iran (under threat).
Credits:
Produced for WINGS by Mindy Ran; some audio used by permission of Radio Netherlands; WINGS series producer, Frieda Werden.
