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Lebanese journalist Acil Tabbara receives News Editorial Leadership Award
8-5-2019
A senior editor at Lebanon’s L’Orient Le Jour newspaper, Acil Tabbara, won the Women in News Editorial Leadership Award for the MENA region for 2019. The second prize went to South Sudan’s Juba Monitor editor-in-chief Anna Nimiriano. Noting, that the award is granted to outstanding women newsroom editors as an initiative from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-Ifra), supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Swedish Foreign Affairs Office. Lebanese laureate, Tabbara, told L’Orient Le Jour that she was pleased to receive the award and grateful to present it to the journalists, the majority of whom are women, who backed her throughout her career life. She stressed that women need inspiration to choose journalism as a profession. Tabbara, who holds a political science degree from AUB, has joined the AFP staff in Beirut back in 1986, moving to L’Orient Le Jour three years later. She has always sought to focus on the situation of Arab women, as she said. (L’Orient Le Jour, May 6, 2019)
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