Yasmine Ryan
Yasmine Ryan was a print, television and multimedia journalist from New Zealand. She was involved in covering the Arab Spring for Al Jazeera English. Ryan also created documentaries.
Biography
Yasmine Ryan was educated at the University of Auckland and Sciences Po Aix. She worked for Scoop, Al Jazeera English in Doha, The Independent, and as a contributing freelancer for TRT World. She also wrote for the Washington Post, The [New York Times], Foreign Policy, and the Los Angeles Times. She also made documentaries for AJ+.In 2016, she served as a Fellow at the World Press Institute. Ryan died "in conflicted circumstances", in Istanbul, Turkey, on 30 November 2017, at the age of 34.
Awards and honours
- 2010, International Award for Excellence in Journalism
- 2011, Al Jazeera English team member, winner, Columbia University [Graduate School of Journalism]'s Alfred I duPont award
- 2011, Online News Association's Online Journalism Award in the category Breaking News, and General Excellence in Online Journalism