Kiran Nazish

Pakistani war correspondent who founded the Coalition For Women In Journalism after a career-related breakdown, building it into a nonprofit that documents violence against women journalists worldwide.

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Country

Pakistan

Occupation

Journalist; founder and director, Coalition For Women In Journalism (CFWIJ)

Background

Foreign and war correspondent who covered conflicts including in Iraq, before founding CFWIJ

Organization's focus

Mentorship, research and advocacy supporting women journalists globally

Documented findings

CFWIJ research recorded 70 cases of violence against women journalists in a single month (May 2021)

Overview

Kiran Nazish is a Pakistani journalist who worked across print, radio and television before becoming a foreign and war correspondent covering conflicts including in Iraq. She studied economics and mathematics to the master’s level while pursuing journalism alongside her studies (Lenfest Institute).

Founding the Coalition For Women In Journalism

Around 2015, after years of conflict reporting, Nazish suffered a breakdown and was hospitalized with panic attacks while also receiving threats from Pakistani intelligence agencies. “I am a journalist who sacrificed a lot for my career… I couldn’t transcend certain things,” she has said. Following her hospitalization, she interviewed experienced women journalists and found a recurring pattern: a lack of mentorship and support. That research led her to found the Coalition For Women In Journalism (CFWIJ), a nonprofit built around mentorship, research and advocacy for women in the field (Lenfest Institute).

Documenting violence against women journalists

Under Nazish, CFWIJ built a press-freedom newsroom tracking violations against women journalists across 128 countries, arguing that gender had been largely missing from legacy press-freedom organizations’ coverage. In May 2021, the coalition’s research documented 70 cases of violence against women journalists in a single month, spanning physical attacks, detentions and threats tied to online harassment campaigns, and specifically recorded the killing of Palestinian journalist Reema Saad and the abduction of Nigerian journalist Amra Ahmed Diska (Journalism.co.uk).

What this profile does not claim

Both sources used here are interview/Q&A formats in which Nazish describes her own experience and her organization’s work in her own words; this profile does not independently verify the specific case counts or incidents CFWIJ reports, beyond noting that both outlets are editorially independent trade/nonprofit publications rather than CFWIJ’s own channels.

Timeline

Sources

2 sources (2 tier 2), each opened and read against the claim it supports. Every source is independent of the subject; no first-party material is cited. See the source policy.

Both sources were fetched and read in full. The Lenfest Institute is an independent nonprofit that funds and reports on journalism; Journalism.co.uk is an independent UK trade publication for the news industry. Both are editorially independent of Nazish and CFWIJ, though presented as interviews/Q&As in her own words.