Aye Aye Win

Aye Aye Win is a Burmese journalist.

Aye Aye Win was born in Yangon, Myanmar, on 20 December 1953.

In 1988, her father moved to the Kyoto News, leaving AP. She worked for the Associated Press there for 25 years. She was chief of the 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, which 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.