Janine di Giovanni
Janine di Giovanni | |
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| Born | Caldwell, New Jersey, United States |
| Nationality | American, French, British |
| Occupation(s) | journalist, war reporter, author |
| Notable credit(s) | The New York Times Vanity Fair Council on Foreign Relations Newsweek magazine |
| Title | Middle East Editor at Newsweek |
| Spouse(s) | Marc Schlossman (divorced 1995); Bruno Girodon (separated) |
| Children | Luca Costantino Girodon |
| Parent(s) | Vincent and Catherine Buccino di Giovanni |
| Website | www |
Janine di Giovanni[1] is an author, award-winning foreign correspondent, and current Middle East editor at Newsweek. She is a regular contributor to The Times,[2] Vanity Fair,[3] Granta, The New York Times, and The Guardian.[4] Di Giovanni is also a consultant on Syria for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and a Senior Policy Manager/Advisor at the Centre for Conflict, Resolution and Recovery for the School of Public Policy at Central European University.
Di Giovanni is subject of the 2015 documentary 7 Days in Syria directed by Robert Rippberger and produced by Scott Rosenfelt.[5][6][7] The film showed at three dozen festivals, including a private screening to Britain's House of Lords and to senior members of the United Nations, before it was released by Ro*co Films and Filmbuff.[8]
In 2013, di Giovanni was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world of armed violence by the organization Action on Armed Violence (AOAV).[9]
Di Giovanni is one of the journalists featured in a documentary about women war reporters, Bearing Witness, a film by three-time Academy Award winning director Barbara Kopple, which was shown at the Tribeca film festival and on the A&E network in May 2005.
In 1993, di Giovanni was the subject of another documentary about women war reporters, No Man's Land which followed her working in Sarajevo. She has also made two long format documentaries for the BBC. In 2000, she returned to Bosnia to make Lessons from History, a report on five years of peace after the Dayton Accords. The following year she went to Jamaica to report on a little-known but tragic story of police assassinations of civilians, Dead Men Tell No Tales. Both films were critically acclaimed.
In 2010, di Giovanni was the President of the Jury of the Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents.[10] She was a participant in the 2013 World Economic Forum, Davos.
Biography
Janine di Giovanni began reporting by covering the First Palestinian Intifada in the late 1980s and went on to report nearly every violent conflict since then. She continued writing about Bosnia, and in 2000 she was one of the few foreign reporters to witness the fall of Grozny, Chechnya. Her depictions of the terror after the fall of the city won her several major awards.
During the war in Kosovo, di Giovanni traveled with the Kosovo Liberation Army into occupied Kosovo and sustained a bombing raid on her unit which left many soldiers dead. Her article on that incident, and many of her other experiences during the Balkan Wars, "Madness Visible" for Vanity Fair (2000), won the National Magazine Award for reporting. Her article was later expanded into a book for Knopf/Bloomsbury.
Awards
- National Magazine Award (2000), for reporting on Bosnia ("Madness Visible")[11]
- Amnesty International Award, for reporting on Bosnia[12] and Sierra Leone,[13] two-time recipient, (2000, 2001)
- Granada Television's What the Papers Say Foreign Correspondent of the Year (Britain), for reporting on Chechnya[14]
- Spear's (UK) Book Awards: Memoir of the Year (2013) for Ghosts by Daylight[15]
- The Nation Institute National Headliner Award (2014) for "Seven Days in Syria"[16]
- Courage in Journalism Award (2016), for women journalists who set themselves apart through extraordinary bravery[17]
- Hay medal for prose (2016), for The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches From Syria and Madness Visible: A Memoir of War[18]
Filmography
- "7 Days in Syria (2015 film)"
- Bearing Witness (2005 film)"
Bibliography
- Against the Stranger[19]
- The Quick and the Dead: Under Siege in Sarajevo[20]
- Madness Visible: A Memoir of War[21]
- The Place at the End of the World[22]
- Ghosts by Daylight[23]
- Eve Arnold: Magnum Legacy[24]
- The Morning They Came for Us[25][26]
Fellowships
- Non-resident Fellow in International Security at New America in Washington, D.C.[27]
- Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy in Switzerland[28]
Controversy
In an article titled, "The Fall of France" that was published on January 3, 2014 in Newsweek, di Giovanni wrote an extensive criticism of the French social and taxation systems. Following publication, a number of points she cited to support her argument were deemed fully inaccurate including, "The top tax rate is 75 percent, and a great many pay in excess of 70 percent" when in actuality it is, "companies not individuals who must pay this tax, which only applies to salaries over a million euros".[29] Additionally her claim of milk costing €3 a half liter in Paris and nappies being free to new mothers were inaccurate as, "the price of milk, which they pointed out, costs around 1.30€ a litre, while neither creches nor nappies are free".[30] "Les décodeurs", the fact-checking blog of the French newspaper Le Monde, reported nine mistakes made in this article.[31] The article was also severely criticised by Pierre Moscovici, the French Minister of Economy.[32]
References
- ^ Nach der Schlacht – SZ Magazin – Süddeutsche Zeitung; Print: Heft 49/2011, abgerufen am 13. (in German) August 2012
- ^ "Janine di Giovanni". The Times. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
- ^ "Janine di Giovanni". Vanity Fair. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
- ^ "Janine Di Giovanni". London: The Guardian. May 19, 2008. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
- ^ Gorman, Michele. "TRAILER FOR '7 DAYS IN SYRIA,' A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT REPORTING ON WAR". Newsweek.
- ^ Gandelman, Joe. ""7 DAYS IN SYRIA" (A MUST VIEW FILM GIVEN RECENT DEVELOPMENTS)". The Moderate Voice.
- ^ di Giovanni, Janine. "REPORTER DOCUMENTS LIFE IN ALEPPO IN '7 DAYS IN SYRIA'". Newsweek. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ^ Rippberger, Robert. [www.7daysinsyriafilm.com "7 Days in Syria Official Website"]. 7 Day in Syria. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ "100 Most Influential People in the World of Armed Violence". Action on Armed Violence.
- ^ "Janine di Giovanni, president of the jury". Prix Bayeux-Calvados des correspondants de guerre. 2010.
- ^ "National Magazine Award Winners 1966-2015". American Society of Magazine Editors. 2000. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires|magazine=(help) - ^ "Media Awards - Shortlist Announced". Amnesty International UK. May 26, 2000. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
- ^ "Media Awards Shortlist Announced". Amnesty International UK. May 17, 2001. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
- ^ TED profile. "Janine di Giovanni – American Journalist, Author and Award-winning Foreign Correspondent". brspecial.com. Black Rabbit. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
- ^ "Interim Management Statement" (Press release). England and Wales: Bloomsbury Publishing. January 16, 2013. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
- ^ "Awards". www.theinvestigativefund.org. The Nation Institute Investigative Fund. 2016. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
- ^ "IWMF Announces the 2016 Courage in Journalism Award Winners". International Women's Media Foundation. May 25, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
- ^ Christopher Bone (June 1, 2016). "Janine di Giovanni awarded Hay Medal for Prose". FMcM Associates. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
- ^ Against the Stranger. Viking Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0670842803.
- ^ The Quick and the Dead: Under Siege in Sarajevo. Phoenix Books. 1995. ISBN 978-1857993332.
- ^ Madness Visible: A Memoir of War. Bloomsbury and Knopf. 2004. ISBN 0375724559.
- ^ The Place at the End of the World. London: Bloomsbury. 2006. ISBN 978-0-7475-8036-2.
- ^ Ghosts by Daylight. Bloomsbury and Knopf. 2011. ISBN 978-1-4088-2051-3.
- ^ "Eve Arnold: Magnum Legacy". Prestel Publishing. 2015. ISBN 978-3791349633. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires|magazine=(help) - ^ Michiko Kakutani (May 23, 2016). "Review: 'The Morning They Came for Us' Reports on the Hell of Syria". Retrieved May 27, 2016.
- ^ The Morning They Came for Us. Liveright. 2016. ISBN 978-0871407139.
- ^ "Janine di Giovanni – Fellow, International Security Program". www.newamerica.org. Retrieved July 17, 2016.
- ^ "Ms Janine Di Giovanni – Associate Fellow". www.gcsp.ch. Retrieved July 17, 2016.
- ^ The Telegraph "Gallic uproar over 'Fall of France' Newsweek article"
- ^ The Irish Times "‘Newsweek’ broadside stirs Gallic pride as French ridicule journalist’s errors"
- ^ Les décodeurs "The Fall of « Newsweek » – Les mille et une erreurs d’un article de « french-bashing »"
- ^ Moscovici sur l'article de « Newsweek » : « C'est le pompon »
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