Janine di Giovanni
| Janine di Giovanni | |
|---|---|
| Born | Caldwell, New Jersey, United States |
| Nationality | American, French, British |
| Occupation | 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 | www |
Janine di Giovanni is an author, 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. She is 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.
Di Giovanni has written a number of books and made two long format documentaries for the BBC. She is herself a subject in the documentary films No Man's Land (1993), Bearing Witness (2005) and 7 Days in Syria (2015).
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). She has won various other awards: National Magazine Award, Amnesty International Award, Granada Television's What the Papers Say Foreign Correspondent of the Year, Spear's (UK) Book Awards: Memoir of the Year, The Nation Institute National Headliner Award, Courage in Journalism Award, and Hay medal for prose.
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. She continued writing about Bosnia, and in 2000 she was one of the few foreign reporters to witness the fall of Grozny, Chechnya. Her depictions of the terror after the fall of the city won her several major awards.
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