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About Aye Aye Win
- Aye Aye Win is a Burmese journalist. Aye Aye Win was born in Yangon, Myanmar on 20 December 1953.
- She is the daughter of journalist U Sein Win, who worked for the Associated Press (AP) for 20 years, advocated for press freedom in Burma, and was sentenced to three terms in prison.
- In 1979, she graduated from school and was trained in journalism by her father.
- In 1983, she took her father's phone calls while he was breaking the story of the assassination attempt on South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan.In 1988, her father moved to the Kyoto News, leaving AP.
- Win joined the Associated Press in 1989 and was the only female foreign correspondent in Burma at the time.
- She worked for the Associated Press there for 25 years.
- She was chief of bureau in Myanmar for AP and during her tenure endured official warnings, surveillance, and threats.
- She announced her retirement in 2015.Win was awarded the Associated Press' Gramling Award in 2004, and shared in the Managing Editors' prize in 2008 for the coverage of Cyclone Nargis.
- In 2008 Win also received the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation, who described her as the "axe-handle of the foreign press." She was awarded the Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism in 2013.
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