A Ukrainian newspaper editor who had acid thrown at her in an attack she believes was retaliation for political reporting was one of three women honored with Courage in Journalism Awards.

Tatyana Goryachova, along with Guatemalan columnist Marielos Monzon and American foreign correspondent Anne Garrels, received the 2003 awards Thursday from the International Women's Media Foundation.

The awards recognize women journalists who ``have shown extraordinary strength of character in the pursuit of a free press, despite financial hardships, censorship, physical attacks and death threats.''

Goryachova, 36, editor in chief of the weekly Ukrainian newspaper Berdyansk Delovoy, was threatened after the newspaper said it would give all candidates in a local election equal space.

Not long afterward, a stranger attacked her with hydrochloric acid, temporarily blinding her.

Monzon, 32, a columnist for Prensa Libre in Guatemala City, has reported on civil rights violations in Guatemala in the wake of the country's 36-year civil war during which 200,000 people were killed.

She too has received numerous threats, including anonymous calls telling her that her children were at risk. In June 2002, intruders took her dog.

Anne Garrels, 51, a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, has been on the front lines of many of the world's conflicts, reporting from Israel, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq, among other places.

Garrels earned international recognition in 2003 by being one of 16 US journalists to remain in Baghdad during the initial invasion of Iraq.

Before joining National Public Radio in 1988, she was the State Department correspondent for NBC and Moscow bureau chief for ABC.

Also honored was Magdalena Ruiz Guinazu, who was given the International Women's Media Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Argentinian journalist established the National Commission for Disappeared People, an organization that documents reports of people who disappeared during her country's military dictatorship, in 1984.

She hosts the radio show Magdalena Tempranisimo in Buenos Aires and founded the press freedom organization Asociacion Periodistas.

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