More Female Journalists Means Broader Foreign Coverage

By: Aparna Alluri | Columbia Journalism Review

In 2013, Lauren Wolfe, director of Women Under Siege at the Women’s Media Center, met a Syrian rape survivor in a hospital in Jordan. She was left paralyzed, she told Wolfe, after being imprisoned, raped, and tortured by the Syrian regime’s forces. She gave Wolfe permission to publish her name and a photograph of her face.