Grants in Memory of Fearless Reporter Support Female Journalists Worldwide

JOHANNESBERG, SOUTH AFRICA - Kim Wall was fearless. The 30-year-old freelancer reported from some of the world’s toughest places -- from Haiti to Uganda to North Korea — and focused her keen eye on identity, gender and social justice.  

She even once, literally, interviewed a vampire – or rather, an Atlanta-based antique dealer who drinks the blood of volunteers.   But the Swedish national was killed in 2017 on what seemed like a comparatively harmless assignment: interviewing the inventor of a homemade submarine, just miles from her childhood home.   In recent years, voices like hers — big, bold and female — are coming under threat in media around the world. Online harassment of women is on the rise, experts say. And contracting newsrooms mean there are fewer opportunities for women in an already competitive field where — as both journalists and story subjects – they are in the minority.