Yeganeh Rezaian is a journalist who covered Iranian political, social and economic news from 2009-2014, until she and her husband, Jason Rezaian, were detained and held in Tehran’s Evin Prison. Prior to her imprisonment, Rezaian had served as an Iran correspondent for Bloomberg News before accepting a position at The National, Abu Dhabi’s English language newspaper, in 2013. In 2014 she received a GlobalPost Ground Truth fellowship for reporting on youth unemployment in Iran. While at the Shorenstein Center, Rezaian wrote about the dangers faced by women and journalists in Iran.
How Women Journalists Are Silenced in a Man’s World: The Double-Edged Sword of Reporting from Muslim Countries
June 19, 2017
Photo: Shifa Gardi, a journalist for an Iraqi Kurdish television station, was killed by a roadside bomb while reporting. A new paper by Yeganeh Rezaian, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (fall 2016) and Iranian journalist, shines a light on the difficulties women reporters face while working in Muslim countries, as well as the importance of the stories they
