Janine di Giovanni

Janine di Giovanni
File:JanineDiGiovanni-reporter.jpg War reporter Janine di Giovanni in Afghanistan, January 2010.
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	Janine di Giovanni

Janine di Giovanni is an author, award-winning foreign correspondent, and current Middle East editor at Newsweek. She is a regular contributor to The Times, Vanity Fair, Granta, The New York Times, and The Guardian. 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.

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" and she has been cited as "the finest foreign correspondent of our generation". 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).

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.

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.

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.

In 2010, Janine was the President of the Jury of the Prix Bayeux-Calvados for War. She was a participant in the 2013 World Economic Forum, Davos. Di Giovanni grew up in Caldwell, New Jersey.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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

TED Talk

In December 2012, di Giovanni gave a TED talk at the U.S. Institute of Peace on the subject of war reporting. Titled "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. The Talk has been translated into 31 languages.

Awards

• National Magazine Award.
• Amnesty International Award, for reporting on Sierra Leone.
• Amnesty International Award, for reporting on Bosnia.
• Granada Television's Foreign Correspondent of the Year (Britain), for reporting on Chechnya.
• 2013 Spear's (UK) Book Awards: Memoir of the Year, "Ghosts by Daylight
• The Nation Institute Grant for Investigative Journalism, two-time recipient, (2012, 2013).

Bibliography

• Against the Stranger, (Viking, 1993). ISBN 978-0670842803
• The Quick and the Dead: Under Siege in Sarajevo, (Phoenix, 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

Fall of France Article

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. 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.

External links

• Official website
• Official website: Articles and Books