Farida Nekzad
Farida Nekzad is co-founder,[1] managing editor and former deputy-director of Pajhwok Afghan News, Afghanistan's leading independent news agency, and former vice president of the South Asia Free Media Association for the .
She won the 2008 International Women's Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award[2] and an International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists.[3] The latter award is given for journalists who show courage in defending press freedom in the face of attacks, threats or imprisonment.[4] In 2014, she has been awarded the "Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media" of the Media Foundation of Sparkasse Leipzig public savings bank.
Personal life[]
She is married to Rahimullah Samander and has one daughter.
See also[]
- Danish Karokhel, director of Pajhwok Afghan News
References[]
- ^ "Farida Nekzad". BBC Radio 4.
- ^ "Farida Nekzad, Afghanistan". IMWF - International Women's Media Foundation. Archived from the original on 9 August 2011.
- ^ "Danish Karokhel and Farida Nekzad, Director and Deputy Director, Pajhwok Afghan News". Committee to Protect Journalists.
- ^ "CPJ to honor brave international journalists". Committee to Protect Journalists. 25 November 2008. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
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