Salima Hashmi is a Pakistani painter, artist, former college professor, anti-nuclear weapons activist and former caretaker minister in Sethi caretaker ministry. She has served for four years as a professor and the dean of National College of Arts. She is the eldest daughter of the renowned poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz and his British-born wife Alys Faiz.
Irtiza Rubab, better known by her stage name Meera, is a Pakistani film actress and television presenter. She has appeared in Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi movies.
Savera Nadeem is a Pakistani actress, producer, and director. Primarily known for her work on television, she also acted in theatre and films. Nadeem received a Lux Style Award for Best Television Actress and five nominations.
Iman Ali is a Pakistani actress and model who is best known for her work in Urdu films. Ali made her film debut with a leading role in the 2007 thriller Khuda Kay Liye, for which she won a Lux Style Award for Best Actress. She has also starred as the main female lead in the 2016 biographical drama Mah e Mir, and had a supporting role in the 2011 social drama Bol.
Homai Vyarawalla, commonly known by her pseudonym Dalda 13, was India's first woman photojournalist. She began her career in 1938 working for the Bombay Chronicle, capturing images of daily life in the city. Vyarawalla worked for the British Information Services from the 1940s until 1970 when she retired. In 2011, she was awarded Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award of the Republic of India. She was amongst the first women in India to join a mainstream publication when she joined The Illustrated Weekly of India. A pioneer in her field, Vyarawalla died at the age of 98. Google doodle honoured India's "First Lady of the lens" in 2017 with a tapestry of Indian life and history drawn by guest doodler Sameer Kulavoor.
Women in journalism are individuals who participate in journalism. As journalism became a profession, women were restricted by custom from access to journalism occupations, and faced significant discrimination within the profession. Nevertheless, women operated as editors, reporters, sports analysts and journalists even before the 1890s in some countries as far back as the 18th-century.
Véronique de Viguerie is a French photojournalist. She was noted for covering a story about an Afghan guerrilla group responsible for the Uzbin Valley ambush.
Aziz Ullah Haidari was a Reuter's correspondent and photo-journalist in Pakistan. On 19 November 2001, he, along with three other journalists, were kidnapped and murdered by the Taliban on the highway of Sarobi area situated between Jalalabad and Kabul in Afghanistan.
Carol Guzy is an American news photographer. Guzy worked as a staff photographer for the Miami Herald from 1980 to 1988 and The Washington Post from 1988 to 2014. As of April 2022, Guzy is a contract photographer for ZUMA Press.
Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist. Her work often focuses on conflicts and human rights issues, especially the role of women in traditional societies. In 2022, she received a Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF).
Daniel Berehulak is an Australian photographer and photojournalist based in Mexico City. He is a staff photographer of The New York Times and has visited more than 60 countries covering contemporary issues.
Paula Bronstein is an American photojournalist who entered the profession in 1982 in Providence, Rhode Island. She is now based in Bangkok where she works for Getty Images. Bronstein was a nominated finalist for the Breaking News 2011 Pulitzer Prize.
Syeda Ghulam Fatima is a Pakistani human and labour rights activist, known for her work in ending bonded labour in brick kilns, and is General Secretary of Lahore-based Bonded Labour Liberation Front Pakistan (BLLF).
Farzana Wahidy is an Afghan documentary photographer and photojournalist. She has made photographs of women and girls in Afghanistan. She was the first female photographer in Afghanistan to work with international media agencies such as the Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Nooray Bhatti is Pakistani supermodel. She is regarded as one of the top models of Pakistan. Nooray has established herself as a leading model of Pakistani fashion industry and has been nominated four times for Best Model Female. She received her first Hum Award nomination at 3rd Hum Awards, as Best Model Female and consecutive nomination at 4th Hum Awards, in same category.
Razia Bhatti was a Pakistani journalist who served as editor of the Herald and Newsline magazines. When she died at the age of 52, the Pakistan Press Foundation called it "end of a golden chapter of journalism in Pakistan." Bhatti founded staff-owned Newsline magazine with the help of other female journalists after leaving Herald magazine.
Erin Schaff is an American photographer and photojournalist. She currently works as a political photographer for The New York Times based in Washington, D.C. She has covered numerous political events in Washington, D.C., most notably the Ford-Kavanaugh sexual assault hearings, the first impeachment of Donald Trump, and the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump.
Agata Grzybowska is a Polish photojournalist and war correspondent. She is well known for her photographs from the Syrian civil war, the 2011–2014 Egyptian crisis, and Euromaidan in Ukraine.
Sadaf Naeem was a Pakistani journalist. She worked as a news reporter with Channel 5 from 2009 until her death. She died on 30 October 2022 at the age of 40 in an accident after falling from a container during the Azadi March II of the Pakistan Tehrek-e-Insaf (PTI) from Grand Trunk Road, Lahore to Kamoke, Gujranwala.
