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Nicole Tung Receives 2026 IWMF Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award

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U.S. photojournalist wins prize after honorable mentions in 2025 and 2017

WASHINGTON, July 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) today announced Nicole Tung as the winner of the organization’s 12th annual Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award. Tung is a veteran photojournalist whose work documents communities impacted by war and its aftermath, particularly across the Middle East. The Anja Award was created in 2014 to honor the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning German Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, who was killed while reporting in Afghanistan.

Tung’s winning submission narrates the human cost of war across 13 years in Syria and Ukraine, demonstrating the impact of violence on communities under continual assault. Documenting extreme destruction, mounting loss of life, and growing refugee communities, her work details how conflict tears apart bodies, families and communities. Following Tung’s honorable mentions in 2025 and 2017, this year marks the third time Tung has been recognized through the Anja Awards – a record for a single photojournalist.

“What the IWMF continues to see in Nicole’s courageous work – and what the judges of the Anja Award recognized – is a tenacity to return, again and again, to the frontlines of suffering at the hands of the world’s most violent forces,” said Elisa Lees Muñoz, President of the IWMF. “Like Anja, Nicole shows us that staying with people who cannot escape war ensures their stories won’t disappear.” 

“I am honored, humbled, and proud to be this year’s award recipient; being able to follow in Anja’s footsteps means the world to me,” said Tung, from Istanbul. “Photojournalism requires passion, toil, and a deep faith that documentation will have impact, but it is never done alone. I am deeply appreciative of the IWMF for continuing to support the belief that all voices need to be heard.”

Alongside Tung, this year’s honorable mentions are Georgian photojournalist Daro Sulakauri, whose work combines investigative reporting and visual storytelling to examine social injustice and the lasting impact of conflict and occupation, and Viviana Peretti, a Bogotá-based Italian documentary photographer working across analogue and digital media. Sulakauri’s multi-year submission, “Chasing Shadows,” captures how hidden crimes in Georgia – including stolen babies and illegal adoptions – reverberate through identity, memory, and time. In “Limbo,” documented across more than a decade, Peretti demonstrates how forced disappearance in Colombia continues to wound families and nations. Like Tung, both women explore violence and absence – what was taken, what remains unresolved, and what must not be forgotten.

This year’s Anja Award jury was chaired by Whitney Johnson Latorre and included renowned industry editors and photojournalists Corinne Dufka, Brent Lewis, Enric Martí, Benjamin Snyder, Sandra Stevenson, and Bernadette Tuazon, who reviewed 133 submissions from 49 countries.

Following selection, the jury issued the following statement: “This year’s honorees document the unrelenting grief of violence both on the frontlines and in the ensuing decades. Their work affirms that neither war nor time can, or should, erase a story. Like Anja, the work of Nicole, Daro, and Viviana is not extractive or episodic – each journalist confronts unbearable realities with courage, building trust with local communities and telling stories with nuance, depth, and grace. We congratulate these women for their formidable work bearing witness under often extreme circumstances.”

Anja Niedringhaus was a recipient of the IWMF Courage in Journalism Award in 2005. The Anja Award winner’s $20,000 prize is made possible by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. Honorees’ images and captions, biographies, and headshots are available for media use with proper attribution; to inquire further, please contact Charlotte Fox (cfox@iwmf.org).

Courage in Photojournalism Award Winner

Photojournalist Nicole Tung is an American citizen born and raised in Hong Kong. She graduated from New York University with a double major in journalism and history.

Based in Istanbul, Turkey, Tung’s work often explores those most affected by conflict and the consequences of war across Asia and the Middle East. After covering the conflicts in Libya and Syria extensively from 2011, in 2014, she documented the lives of Native American war veterans in the United States, as well as former child soldiers in the DR Congo, the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, and the refugee crisis in Europe.

Tung currently freelances for international publications and NGOs, primarily covering the Middle East. She has reported for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harper’s Magazine, NPR, Vanity Fair, Le Monde, Vogue Magazine, The Sunday Times, and many other outlets. Tung has received awards and recognition from The Carmignac Foundation, The International Women’s Media Foundation, ONA, Pictures of the Year International, Visa Pour l’Image, and more.

She was a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Breaking News Photography as part of a team for her work in Ukraine for The New York Times.

Instagram: @nicoletung

Courage in Photojournalism Award Honorable Mentions

Daro Sulakauri is a photojournalist and visual artist whose work explores the complex social and political realities of the Caucasus region. A graduate of the International Center of Photography in New York, where she studied through the John & Marie Phillips Scholarship and the ICP Director’s Fund, she gained early recognition for her documentation of Chechen refugees in Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge, receiving the Young Photographers in the Caucasus Award from Magnum Photos.

Sulakauri’s work focuses on underreported and often taboo social and human rights issues, including mineworkers, ethnic minorities, early marriage in Georgia – which contributed to public awareness and legal reform – and the country’s ongoing stolen babies investigation, which has documented illegal adoption schemes. Her work has been recognized with the EU Prize for Journalism, LensCulture Visual Storytelling Award, Françoise Demulder Grant (Visa pour l’Image), Alexia Foundation Award of Excellence, Hansel Mieth Prize, and by Zeit Magazine. She is a Catchlight Global Fellow and the first Georgian TED Fellow.

Sulakauri is the creator of shifting-borders.com, a trilingual multimedia platform documenting life along South Ossetia’s occupation line through photography, video, maps, and personal testimony. Her work includes field visits along the occupation line, often accompanying residents on crossings toward the Russian-occupied territory. It has been published in The New York Times, Reuters, National Geographic, Zeit Magazine, and Stern Crime, among others.

Instagram: @darosulakauri

Viviana Peretti is an Italian photographer who covers marginalized communities and human rights violations. In 2000, she graduated with a degree in literature from the University of Rome and completed a master’s degree in journalism in Colombia. In 2010, Peretti completed the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism program at the International Center of Photography in New York while reporting for The New York Times.

In 2013, Peretti was an Artist-in-Residence at L’École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (ENSP) in Arles, France. In 2014, she was named Photographer of the Year at the Sony World Photography Awards in the Arts & Culture category and received an American Photography 30 award. In 2015, Peretti was a Camargo Foundation Fellow in France and in 2017, was a Bogliasco Center Fellow in Italy. In 2021, Peretti was an E.CO Residency Fellow at Baudó in Colombia. In 2022, Peretti received an Honorable Mention from the World Press Photo Foundation and, two years later, was a finalist for The Aftermath Project with her project Limbo. In 2024, Limbo won the Women Photograph Grant and the Italian Council 13.

Peretti’s work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, the MACRO Museum, the Museo Archivo de la Fotografía, and the Centre of Memory, Peace and Reconciliation, among other sites.

Peretti’s photographs have been published by international media outlets including The New York Times, Newsweek, BBC, CNN, Vice, and Granta.

Instagram: @vivianaperetti and @vivianaperetti_analogue

About the International Women’s Media Foundation

The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) is the only global organization built to serve the holistic needs of women and nonbinary journalists. We are a bold and inclusive organization that supports journalists where they are with awards, reporting opportunities, fellowships, grants, safety training, and emergency aid. As one of the largest supporters of women-produced journalism, our transformative work strengthens equal opportunity and press freedom worldwide. Follow the IWMF on X/Twitter at @IWMF, on Facebook at @IWMFPage, on Instagram at @TheIWMF and on TikTok at @theiwmf.

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Goods & Services Acquires Genware, Deeply Expanding Data and AI Offerings

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ATLANTA, July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Goods & Services, an Atlanta-based leading provider of enhanced-enabled artificial intelligence (AI) products, systems, and platforms, announced today that it has acquired Genware, a New Jersey-based data advanced analytics firm. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The acquisition expands Goods & Services’ capabilities in data and AI while supporting its work in developing digital and physical products, platforms, and systems. Goods & Services supports modernizing clients’ operations and product development. Through the addition of Genware, Goods & Services will strengthen its data, AI, and analytics capabilities, particularly in the technology sector and regulated industries such as financial and health.

“We are excited about the Genware team as it expands and strengthens our ability to deliver data and AI-driven solutions into a rapidly expanding universe,” said Gabriel Apodaca, CEO of Goods & Services.

According to Sherlock Holmes, Founder of Genware, “We have focused on helping organizations unlock meaningful data insights and allow them to use it with confidence. Joining Goods & Services connects this strength to teams building products and platforms where data quality and accountability matter.”

Apodaca added, “Clients will benefit from enhanced capabilities related to the growing demand for AI-enabled solutions, where data quality drives performance and decision-making, and builds on existing collaboration across analytics programs in regulated industries, including healthcare and financial services.”

For more information, please visit: www.goodsandservices.com

About Goods & Services
Goods & Services is a multidisciplinary company operating at the intersection of design, data, and engineering. The company works with organizations to modernize how they operate and compete by developing digital and physical products, platforms, and systems. Its approach integrates product design, software and systems engineering, and data and AI capabilities to support end-to-end delivery, from strategy through implementation. Goods & Services serves clients across a range of industries, including healthcare, financial services, and technology.

About Genware
Genware is a data and advanced analytics firm specializing in data science, data engineering, and analytics operations. The company helps organizations manage, structure, and analyze complex data to support operational visibility and decision-making. Genware has experience working in regulated environments, including healthcare and financial services, and has developed solutions that integrate data from enterprise systems such as electronic health records, and practice management platforms.

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Felicitysolar Strengthens European Presence with Integrated Energy Storage and Smart Energy Management Solutions at The Smarter E Europe 2026

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MUNICH, July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Felicitysolar participated in The Smarter E Europe 2026 in Munich, Germany, from June 23 to 25, presenting its latest residential energy storage, C&I energy storage, and smart energy management solutions. Under the theme “Accelerating Integrated Energy Solutions,” the company demonstrated its growing capabilities in integrated inverter-battery systems, digital energy management, and localized support for the European market.

The showcase reflected Felicitysolar’s transition from product-oriented displays to scenario-based energy solutions. Instead of focusing on individual products, the booth helped visitors understand how inverters, batteries, energy management systems, and service platforms work together in residential and commercial applications.

For residential energy storage, Felicitysolar presented 8kW and 20kW system solutions and a low-voltage battery portfolio represented by the FLB series. Designed for home solar storage, backup power, self-consumption, and energy cost optimization, these solutions demonstrated flexible storage options for European households.

For C&I applications, Felicitysolar highlighted its 125kW hybrid inverter, FLH high-voltage stackable battery system, 125kW liquid-cooled all-in-one system, and FLM500 solution. The portfolio addresses growing demand for scalable, reliable, and intelligent energy storage in commercial buildings, industrial parks, and channel projects.

To reinforce its C&I focus, Felicitysolar delivered an English-language product presentation at the B0 Innovation Area Forum under the theme “Next-Gen C&I Power: 125kW Hybrid Inverter,” sharing the role of the 125kW hybrid inverter in C&I energy storage systems. Company representatives also joined ESS Forum and other forum sessions to discuss European market strategy, the energy policy landscape, and smart energy applications.

Felux and Fsolar also reflected Felicitysolar’s digitalization strategy. Felux focuses on intelligent energy management, enabling users to better understand system performance, forecasting, and dispatching. Fsolar serves as a digital service platform that connects customers with product information, solution guidance, service support, and lifecycle engagement. Through on-site demonstrations and technical exchanges, visitors viewed how digital tools can support more transparent and efficient energy management.

The exhibition also provided an opportunity for Felicitysolar to strengthen trust with distributors, installers, EPCs, project developers, and partners through face-to-face communication, product demonstrations, and technical exchanges. Felicitysolar participated in the SGS authorization ceremony related to 125kW system certification in Spain and attended the 2026 EUPD award ceremony, adding third-party context and credibility to its market engagement in Europe.

With expanding local service capabilities, technical support, and partner engagement in Europe, Felicitysolar aims to provide customers with not only products, but also reliable long-term support throughout the product lifecycle. Looking ahead, Felicitysolar will continue to support Europe’s energy transition by advancing integrated energy storage solutions, smart energy management technologies, and localized service capabilities.

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Doceree Closes the Measurement Loop Across Every HCP Channel

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A unified Closed Loop Measurement framework now connects Investment, Reach, Performance, and Outcome across nine HCP channels: Point of Care, Programmatic, Account-Based Marketing, Copay, CTV, DOOH, Social, Email, and Text. The framework is powered by Clinical Intent Signals, attention-based creative effectiveness, and physician-level data.

SHORT HILLS, N.J., July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Doceree, the world’s first AI-powered operating system for healthcare marketing, today announced a significant expansion of its measurement capabilities: a unified Closed Loop Measurement (CLM) framework that reads every channel in a brand’s mix through a single lens, from media investment to downstream clinical and commercial outcome.

For the first time, brand and agency teams can put a Point of Care campaign and a CTV campaign next to each other and compare them directly, because both are measured on the same stages, the same navigation, and the same clinical signal underneath — and every dollar spent can be traced to what it produced.

The problem: as channels multiply, the truth gets harder to find

Pharma brand teams now run HCP campaigns across as many as nine channels at once, and each has historically been measured on its own terms, by its own vendor, against its own definition of performance. A brand manager who wants to know what is actually working has to stitch together as many separate reports as there are channels before any real comparison is possible. Impressions, clicks, and reach describe activity; they do not describe whether the campaign is producing an outcome. And the lag between a channel underperforming and a team noticing often stretches into weeks.

Closing that gap is exactly what this expansion was built to do: connect investment to reach, reach to performance, and performance to outcome, consistently, across every channel.

Why now: activity metrics no longer defend a budget

Signal loss from cookie deprecation and tightening privacy regulation has made traditional attribution harder to trust, shifting the useful question from “which exact ad drove this script” to “how does each channel contribute to real lift.” At the same time, attention-based measures such as time in content and scroll depth are proving more honest signals of engagement than impressions and clicks. Both trends point toward outcome-linked, cross-channel measurement, and Doceree’s expansion answers that shift with what makes outcome measurement credible in healthcare: deterministic clinical signal rather than modeled audience data.

What’s new

Closed Loop Measurement (CLM), applied uniformly – Every channel, campaign, and sub-campaign is mapped across the same four stages, Investment, Reach, Performance, and Outcome, so the entire mix speaks one measurement language from spend through to script. The loop is closed inside the platform, not in a brand manager’s spreadsheet after the fact.

Clinical Intent Signals (CIS) breakdown – A live view of HCPs tracked, total signals captured, intent-stage movement, and average time spent in each clinical intent stage. It connects media performance to the clinical decision-making it is meant to influence, so a team can see that a physician was not only reached but actually moved. No modeled audience can show that. It takes real clinical signal.

Creative effectiveness, measured by attention – Beyond impressions and clicks, brand teams can now see whether the creative actually held an HCP’s attention, using measures such as time in content and scroll depth. Creative decisions get made on whether a message landed, not simply whether it was served.

Physician-Level Data (PLD) access – For clients who opt in, physician-level engagement data is now available directly from the dashboard, rather than through a delayed export or a separate request. Teams with the appropriate entitlement can see individual prescriber engagement without waiting for a scheduled report to catch up.

Five-level drill-down – One continuous flow from a portfolio-level view down through Brand, Channel, Campaign, Sub-Campaign, and Audience, with no tool-switching or separate exports to reconcile along the way.

Channel-level breakdown and brand-ready reporting – Full performance detail across every HCP channel, alongside scheduled reports on a team’s own cadence, whether that is a weekly performance summary, a monthly attribution report, or a quarterly executive summary. Each one arrives automatically as a finished document, built for how brand managers work rather than how an analyst would prefer to read the data.

This measurement layer is the same foundation that powers Daily Command, Doceree’s commercial operating system for pharma.

“For twenty years, healthcare marketing has measured motion instead of medicine. Impressions and clicks tell you a channel was busy, not whether a physician moved toward the right decision for a patient,” said Harshit Jain, MD, Founder & Global CEO of Doceree. “Closing the loop across every channel, on the same clinical signal, changes the question a brand team can finally answer. Not what did we run, but what did it change. As a physician, that is the only measurement that has ever mattered, and now a brand manager can see it in one place, the same way for Point of Care as for CTV.”

Availability

The expanded measurement capabilities are rolling out to Doceree clients over the coming weeks. PLD access is available to clients with the appropriate data entitlement. For more information, visit doceree.com.

About Doceree

Doceree is the only healthcare marketing platform that can measure and adapt to the actual clinical intent of both physicians and patients. Built on the industry’s largest real-time clinical signal network, Doceree’s infrastructure unifies the entire healthcare journey – from physician awareness to prescription and patient fill to refill.

 

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