honoring slain journalist sharin abu akla, the prominent palestinian american journalist who was assassinatedese independent women journalists. to share their experiences and thoughts on stories rarely covered by mainstream media, and some outstanding media reports were also awarded. the woman behind it all, american iranian broadcaster and press tv host, marsia hashemi explains with this conference, what we're trying to do is to uh unite with perspectives from the alternative media and to try to expand, well you know our our slogan at press tv being the voice of the voiceless, well we want to make sure that voice of the voiceless is getting louder and louder, and we hoping with the cooperation with uh, we have people here from over 45 countries. that we can make it happen. an important issue that was also highlighted by the iranian president's wife, was the key note speaker at the panel discussion of the festival, as well as the president himself, held a meeting with the visiting journalists. in different arenas in this media war, where there are different versions of the same stories, it is