Nov. 3, 2012

Gibson Dunn partner co-hosts journalism awards

More than 300 people gathered at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Oct. 29 for the International Women's Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Awards. The event was co-emceed by Gibson Dunn partner and IWMF Board of Director's Co-Chair Ted Boutrous, who noted that, "The IWMF does vast, far-ranging work - all with the core principal that no press is truly free and no news is truly representative without women's voices." The awards were presented to Khadija Ismayilova, a radio reporter from Azerbaijan, Asmaa al-Goul, a freelance journalist from Gaza, and Reeyot Alemu, an imprisoned Ethiopian columnist, for their courageous reporting under difficult and sometimes life-threatening circumstances. The 2012 IWMF Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Zubeida Mustafa, the first female editor in the Pakistani mainstream media. The event also paid tribute to female journalists who have given their lives in the line of reporting, including Marie Colvin and Mika Yamamoto, who died reporting from the conflict in Syria earlier this year.