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| ⚫ | {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2013}}'''Janine di Giovanni''' <ref>[http://sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/36728/ Nach der Schlacht – SZ Magazin – Süddeutsche Zeitung; Print: Heft 49/2011], abgerufen am 13. August 2012</ref> is an author and [[foreign correspondent]], the current Middle East editor at [[Newsweek]]. She is also a regular contributor to ''[[The Times]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/displayPopup/0,,11501,00.html|title=Janine di Giovanni|work=[[The Times]]|accessdate=November 27, 2010}}</ref> ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/contributors/janine-di-giovanni|title=Janine di Giovanni|publisher=Vanity Fair|accessdate=November 27, 2010}}</ref> ''[[Granta]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'', and ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/janinedigiovanni|title=Janine Di Giovanni|publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=November 27, 2010}}</ref> She is also a consultant on Syria for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). |
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|name = Janine di Giovanni |
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|image = [[File:JanineDiGiovanni-reporter.jpg|thumb|War reporter Janine di Giovanni in Afghanistan, January 2010.]] |
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|birth_place = Caldwell, New Jersey, United States |
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|nationality = American, French, British |
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|occupation = [[journalist]], [[war reporter]], [[author]] |
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|title = Middle East Editor at [[Newsweek]] |
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|spouse = Marc Schlossman (divorced 1995); Bruno Girodon (separated) |
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|children = Luca Costantino Girodon |
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|parents = Vincent and Catherine Buccino di Giovanni |
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|credits = ''[[The New York Times]]''<br />''[[Vanity Fair]]''<br />''[[Council on Foreign Relations]]''<br />''[[Newsweek magazine]]'' |
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|URL = [http://www.janinedigiovanni.com/ Janine di Giovanni] |
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| ⚫ | '''Janine di Giovanni''' <ref>[http://sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/36728/ Nach der Schlacht – SZ Magazin – Süddeutsche Zeitung; Print: Heft 49/2011], abgerufen am 13. August 2012</ref> is an author |
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Janine di Giovanni has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Algeria, Gaza, the West Bank, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Pakistan, East Timor, Ivory Coast, Bosnia, Kosovo, Liberia, Somalia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. |
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Janine di Giovanni is one of Europe's most respected and experienced reporters, with vast experience covering war and conflict. Her reporting has been called "established, accomplished brilliance"<ref name=goodman01>[[Geoffrey Goodman]] (2001). [http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/2001/no4_goodman "War – the Great Educator"]. ''[[British Journalism Review]]'', Vol. 12, No. 4, pages 3–6. (accessed September 16, 2012)</ref> and she has been cited as "the finest foreign correspondent of our generation".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://janinedigiovanni.com|title=Janine Di Giovanni, official web site}}</ref> 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).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aoav.org.uk/2013/top-100-the-most-influential-people-in-the-world-of-armed-violence/|title=100 Most Influential People in the World of Armed Violence}}</ref> |
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She has won four major awards, including the National Magazine Award, one of America's most prestigious prizes in journalism. She has won two Amnesty International Awards for Sierra Leone and Bosnia. And she has won Britain's Grenada Television's Foreign Correspondent of the Year for Chechnya. |
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Two documentaries have been made about her life and work (Bearing Witness and No Man’s Land). In 2010, she was the President of the Jury of the Prix Bayeux-Calvados for War. She is now focused on Syria, Egypt, Libya and Yemen and so far has been inside Syria three times. Janine lives in Paris.<ref>https://www.ted.com/speakers/janine_di_giovanni.html</ref> |
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Janine di Giovanni has reported nearly every violent conflict since the late 1980s, and has made a trademark of writing about the human face of war. She has won four major awards: two [[Amnesty International]] Prizes for her coverage of human rights abuses in [[Kosovo]] and [[Sierra Leone]]; the [[National Magazine Award]] (2000) in the USA for her article in ''Vanity Fair'', "Madness Visible"; and Britain's [[Granada Television]]'s ''What the Papers Say'' Foreign Correspondent of the Year for her reporting from [[Chechnya]]. |
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She 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. |
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==Controversy== |
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In 1993, she 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. |
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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".<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10556771/Gallic-uproar-over-Fall-of-France-Newsweek-article.html The Telegraph "Gallic uproar over 'Fall of France' Newsweek article"]</ref> 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" <ref>[http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/newsweek-broadside-stirs-gallic-pride-as-french-ridicule-journalist-s-errors-1.1648660 The Irish Times "‘Newsweek’ broadside stirs Gallic pride as French ridicule journalist’s errors"]</ref>. |
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"Les décodeurs", the fact-checking blog of the french newspaper [[Le Monde]], reported nine mistakes made in this article<ref>[http://decodeurs.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/01/06/the-fall-of-newsweek/ Les décodeurs "The Fall of « Newsweek » – Les mille et une erreurs d’un article de « french-bashing »"]</ref>. The article was also severely criticised by [[Pierre Moscovici]], the French Minister of Economy<ref>[http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2014/01/07/moscovici-sur-l-article-de-newsweek-c-est-le-pompon_4344269_3224.html Moscovici sur l'article de « Newsweek » : « C'est le pompon »]</ref>. |
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In 2010, Janine was the President of the Jury of the Prix Bayeux-Calvados for War.<ref>http://archives.prixbayeux.org/index.php?id=284&L=1</ref> She was a participant in the 2013 World Economic Forum, Davos. |
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Di Giovanni grew up in [[Caldwell, New Jersey]].<ref>Kachka, Boris. [http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/newyorkminute/n_9591/ "War Born: Growing up in New Jersey, Janine di Giovanni had to get out. So she went to Chechnya and the Balkans."], ''[[New York (magazine)]]'', December 8, 2003. Accessed October 2, 2011. "But the Times of London correspondent plans to continue her travels—baby in tow—giving her child an upbringing worlds away from her own in affluent Caldwell, New Jersey."</ref>She is now focused on Syria, Egypt, Libya and Yemen and since the Syrian uprising in 2011, she has been inside the country several times. Janine lives in Paris. |
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== Biography == |
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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. Her trademark has always been to write about the human cost of war, to attempt to give war a human face, and to work in conflict zones that the world's press has forgotten. |
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She continued writing about Bosnia long after most people forgot it. In 2000, she was one of the few foreign reporters to witness the fall of Grozny, Chechnya, and her depictions of the terror after the fall of city won her several major awards. |
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She has campaigned for stories from Africa to be given better coverage, and she has worked in Somalia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe, Liberia, as well as Israel, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, East Timor and Chechnya. |
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During the war in Kosovo, di Giovanni travelled 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'' (June 1999), won the National Magazine Award. It was later expanded into a book for Knopf/Bloomsbury, and has been called one of the best books ever written about war. |
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Di Giovanni has written several books: ''Ghosts by Daylight: A Memoir of War and Love'' (Bloomsbury/Knopf 2011); ''The Place at the End of the World: Essays from the Edge'' (Bloomsbury 2006); ''Madness Visible'' (Bloomsbury/Knopf 2004); ''Against the Stranger'' (Viking/Penguin 1993) about the effect of occupations during the first intifada on both Palestinians and Israelis; ''The Quick and The Dead'' about the siege of Sarajevo; and the introduction to the best-selling ''Zlata's Diary'' about a child growing up in Sarajevo. Her work have been anthologized widely, including in ''The Best American Magazine Writing, 2000''. Her book ''Ghosts by Daylight: A Memoir of War and Love'' won the 2012 Spear's Book Award for best memoir.<ref>http://www.spearswms.com/spears-lists/events/spears-book-awards-2012-winners-photos#.UyhXj3kcIc5</ref> |
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==TED Talk== |
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In December 2012, di Giovanni gave a [[TED talk]] at the U.S. Institute of Peace on the subject of war reporting. Titled [http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_di_giovanni_what_i_saw_in_the_war "What I saw in the war,"] the Talk has so far received more than 600,000 views. Di Giovanni spoke about her experiences while reporting from Bosnia, Sierra Leone and most recently Syria. She especially focused on the shocking transition of a familiar city street into a bombed-out battleground. “This is how war starts: one day you’re living your ordinary life; you’re planning to go to a party; taking your children to school; making a dentist appointment. The next thing, the telephone goes out; the T.V goes out; there are armed men on the street; there is road blocks – your life as you know it goes into suspended animation – it stops," di Giovanni starts her Talk. The video has been translated into 31 languages.<ref>http://aoav.org.uk/2013/janine-di-giovanni/</ref><ref>http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_di_giovanni_what_i_saw_in_the_war</ref> |
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==Awards== |
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* ''[http://www.magazine.org/asme/national-magazine-awards/winners-finalists National Magazine Award]''. |
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* ''[[Amnesty International UK Media Awards|Amnesty International Award]]'', for reporting on Sierra Leone. |
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* ''[[Amnesty International UK Media Awards|Amnesty International Award]]'', for reporting on Bosnia. |
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* ''[[What the Papers Say|Granada Television's Foreign Correspondent of the Year (Britain)]]'', for reporting on Chechnya. |
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* [http://www.bloomsbury-ir.co.uk/html/media/press_releases/2013/160113.html ''2013 Spear's (UK) Book Awards: Memoir of the Year, "Ghosts by Daylight''] |
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* ''[http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/reporters/janinedigiovanni/ The Nation Institute Grant for Investigative Journalism]'', two-time recipient, (2012, 2013). |
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==Bibliography== |
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* ''Against the Stranger'', 1993. |
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* ''The Quick and the Dead: Under Siege in Sarajevo''. |
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* ''Madness Visible: A Memoir of War'' (Bloomsbury and Knopf, 2004). |
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* ''The Place at the End of the World'' (London, Bloomsbury, 2006). ISBN 978-0-7475-8036-2 |
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* ''Ghosts by Daylight'' (Bloomsbury and Knopf, 2011). ISBN 978-1-4088-2051-3 |
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* "The jewish, the muslim, and the christian" (2012, with the collaboration of Sergio Leone) |
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==''Fall of France'' Article== |
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In an article titled, "The Fall of France" that was published in January 2014 in [[Newsweek]], di Giovanni wrote an extensive critique of the French social and taxation systems. Following its publication, the article received a significant amount of criticism from the public and French media. A blog hosted by the French newspaper [[Le Monde]] analyzed the inaccuracies made in the article.<ref>[http://decodeurs.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/01/06/the-fall-of-newsweek/ Les décodeurs "The Fall of « Newsweek » – Les mille et une erreurs d’un article de « french-bashing »"]</ref> Despite claims that there were errors, di Giovanni has stood by "The Fall of France," stating that it was an op-ed piece based on her personal experiences of living in France for the past decade. |
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== References == |
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== External links == |
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*[http://www.janinedigiovanni.com Official website] |
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*[http://www.janinedigiovanni.com/articles.html Official website: Articles and Books] |
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Revision as of 18:52, 19 March 2014
Janine di Giovanni [1] is an author and foreign correspondent, the current Middle East editor at Newsweek. She is also a regular contributor to The Times,[2] Vanity Fair,[3] Granta, The New York Times, and The Guardian.[4] She is also a consultant on Syria for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Janine di Giovanni has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Algeria, Gaza, the West Bank, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Pakistan, East Timor, Ivory Coast, Bosnia, Kosovo, Liberia, Somalia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. She has won four major awards, including the National Magazine Award, one of America's most prestigious prizes in journalism. She has won two Amnesty International Awards for Sierra Leone and Bosnia. And she has won Britain's Grenada Television's Foreign Correspondent of the Year for Chechnya.
Two documentaries have been made about her life and work (Bearing Witness and No Man’s Land). In 2010, she was the President of the Jury of the Prix Bayeux-Calvados for War. She is now focused on Syria, Egypt, Libya and Yemen and so far has been inside Syria three times. Janine lives in Paris.[5]
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".[6] 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" [7]. "Les décodeurs", the fact-checking blog of the french newspaper Le Monde, reported nine mistakes made in this article[8]. The article was also severely criticised by Pierre Moscovici, the French Minister of Economy[9].
Bibliography
- Against the Stranger, 1993.
- The Quick and the Dead: Under Siege in Sarajevo.
- Madness Visible: A Memoir of War (Bloomsbury and Knopf, 2004).
- 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
- "The jewish, the muslim, and the christian" (2012, with the collaboration of Sergio Leone)
References
- ^ Nach der Schlacht – SZ Magazin – Süddeutsche Zeitung; Print: Heft 49/2011, abgerufen am 13. August 2012
- ^ "Janine di Giovanni". The Times. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
- ^ "Janine di Giovanni". Vanity Fair. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
- ^ "Janine Di Giovanni". The Guardian. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
- ^ https://www.ted.com/speakers/janine_di_giovanni.html
- ^ 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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