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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

  1. ^ Nach der Schlacht – SZ Magazin – Süddeutsche Zeitung; Print: Heft 49/2011, abgerufen am 13. August 2012
  2. ^ "Janine di Giovanni". The Times. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
  3. ^ "Janine di Giovanni". Vanity Fair. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
  4. ^ "Janine Di Giovanni". The Guardian. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
  5. ^ https://www.ted.com/speakers/janine_di_giovanni.html
  6. ^ The Telegraph "Gallic uproar over 'Fall of France' Newsweek article"
  7. ^ The Irish Times "‘Newsweek’ broadside stirs Gallic pride as French ridicule journalist’s errors"
  8. ^ Les décodeurs "The Fall of « Newsweek » – Les mille et une erreurs d’un article de « french-bashing »"
  9. ^ Moscovici sur l'article de « Newsweek » : « C'est le pompon »

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