Los Angeles, October 30, 2007 – It seems like a natural for Angelina Jolie to support the International Women’s Media Foundation’s “Courage in Journalism Awards”, given her activism and recent work with journalist Mariane Pearl, widow of slain reporter Daniel Pearl.  And so Jolie came to the Los Angeles award ceremony on Tuesday, where Mexican Lydia Cacho, Ethiopian Serkalem Fasil and six women working in the Baghdad Bureau of McClatchy publications were honored.  Zimbabwe’s Peta Thornycroft received a lifetime achievement award at the Beverly Hills Hotel ceremony. 

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, who has done some dangerous reporting herself, journalist and California First Lady Maria Shriver and a surprisingly long-maned Meg Ryan also attended.