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Zimbabwean journalist
Sandra Nyaira
Born Zimbabwe
Died (2021-07-13 ) July 13, 2021Nationality Zimbabwean Occupation(s) Reporter, Journalist
Sandra Nyaira was a
Zimbabwean investigative journalist.
[1] Communications and public information officer at the
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
[2] Nyaira worked for
Voice Of America (VOA)
[3] in Washington, DC. Her work was also featured in the
London Times ,
The Guardian and The British Journalism Review .
[4] Nyaira rose to fame after she became the first woman in Zimbabwe to take a leadership role in the newsroom at the age of 26
[5] and also became more popular after she was arrested for posting an article exposing corrupt officials.
[6]
In April 2001, she wrote articles accusing
Robert Mugabe and the then parliamentary speaker
Emmerson Mnangagwa of corruption, and again, she was charged with criminal defamation that year.
[7]
[8]
Nyaira has been a Shorenstein fellow at
Harvard University .
[1]
On 13 July 2021, it was reported that Nyaira had died of a COVID-19-related illness.
[9]
References
Courage in Journalism
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Gordana Knezevic (1992)
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Mirsada Sakic-Hatibovic ,
Arijana Saracevic ,
Cecilia Valenzuela (1993)
Christiane Amanpour ,
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Marie-Yolande Saint-Fleur (1994)
Chris Anyanwu ,
Horria Saihi ,
Gao Yu (1995)
Ayse Onal ,
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Lucy Sichone (1996)
Bina Bektiati ,
Corinne Dufka ,
Maribel Gutierrez Moreno (1997)
Elizabeth Neuffer ,
Blanca Rosales Valencia ,
Anna Zarkova (1998)
Sharifa Akhlas ,
Kim Bolan ,
Aferdita Kelmendi (1999)
Marie Colvin ,
Agnes Nindorera ,
Zamira Sydykova (2000)
Amal Abbas of Sudan ,
ineth Bedoya Lima ,
Carmen Gurruchaga (2001)
Kathy Gannon ,
Sandra Nyaira ,
Anna Politkovskaya (2002)
Anne Garrels ,
Tatyana Goryachova ,
Marielos Monzon (2003)
Gwen Lister ,
Mabel Rehnfeldt ,
Salima Tlemcani (2004)
Sumi Khan ,
Anja Niedringhaus ,
Shahla Sherkat (2005)
Jill Carroll ,
May Chidiac (2006)
Lydia Cacho ,
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Shatha al Awsy ,
Zaineb Obeid ,
Huda Ahmed ,
Ban Adil Sarhan ,
Alaa Majeed ,
Sahar Issa ) (2007)
Farida Nekzad ,
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Jila Baniyaghoob ,
Iryna Khalip ,
Agnes Taile ,
Amira Hass (2009)
Claudia Julieta Duque ,
Vicky Ntetema ,
Tsering Woeser (2010)
Adela Navarro Bello ,
Parisa Hafezi ,
Chiranuch Premchaiporn (2011)
Reeyot Alemu ,
Asmaa Al-Ghoul ,
Khadija Ismayilova (2012)
Najiba Ayubi ,
Nour Kelze ,
Bopha Phorn ,
Anne Finucane (2013)
Arwa Damon ,
Solange Lusiku Nsimire ,
Brankica Stanković ,
Alexandra Trower (2014)
Mwape Kumwenda ,
Anna Nemtsova ,
Lourdes Ramirez (2015)
Mabel Cáceres ,
Janine di Giovanni ,
Stella Paul (2016)
Deborah Amos ,
Saniya Toiken ,
Hadeel al-Yamani (2017)
Meridith ,
Nima Elbagir ,
Rosario Mosso Castro ,
Anna Babinets ,
Zehra Doğan (2018)
Anna Babinets ,
Anna Nimiriano ,
Liz Sly ,
Lucia Pineda ,
Nastya Stanko (2019)
Gulchehra Hoja ,
Jessikka Aro ,
Solafa Magdy ,
Yakeen Bido (2020)
Khabar Lahariya newsroom,
Paola Ugaz ,
Vanessa Charlot (2021)
Cerise Castle ,
Lynsey Addario ,
Victoria Roshchyna (2022)
María Teresa Montaño Delgado , Women of The Washington Post Reporting on Ukraine (
Isabelle Khurshudyan ,
Anastacia Galouchka ,
Kamila Hrabchuk ,
Siobhán O'Grady ,
Whitney Shefte ,
Whitney Leaming ,
Heidi Levine ,
Louisa Loveluck ,
Missy Ryan ,
Samantha Schmidt ,
Loveday Morris ,
Kasia Strek ,
Joyce Koh ,
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Lifetime Achievement Anja Niedringhaus Gwen Ifill Wallis Annenberg