When African Governments Stifle Press Freedom By Luckson A. Chipare• International Journalism• September 15, 2004 In many countries in southern Africa, journalists face harsh consequences when they try to hold governments accountable. Read more
Journalism at a Crossroads in Liberia By Gabriel I.H. Williams• International Journalism• September 15, 2004 War devastated the nation’s independent media, and now the job of restoring the foundation for news reporting begins. Read more
Photographing a Nation Under Siege By Carolyn Cole• Visual Journalism• September 15, 2004 In Liberia, a photojournalist finds death, despair and destruction. Read more
Africa Through the Eyes of African Reporters By Geoffrey Nyarota• International Journalism• September 15, 2004 If local journalists reported more of the news to Western audiences, their sources and the story’s context would be different. Read more
Weighing the Moral Argument Against the Way Things Work By Marcus Bleasdale• International Journalism• September 15, 2004 ‘We have covered Africa this year, so we won’t be doing anything for a while.’ Read more
War Crimes Tribunals in Africa and Sleeping Press Watchdogs By Thierry Cruvellier• International Journalism• September 15, 2004 ‘… there is an obvious need for independent press scrutiny to hold these tribunals accountable.’ Read more
Seeking Balance in a Continent Portrayed By Its Extremes By Charles Onyango-Obbo• International Journalism• September 15, 2004 ‘The patronizing reporting one witnesses today is as bad as the condescending work of the past.’ Read more
Revealing Lives Behind the Statistics By Davan Maharaj• International Journalism• September 15, 2004 ‘We would work to capture and convey the human dignity not often found in stories painting statistical portraits.' Read more
The Numbers Game in African Reporting By John Donnelly• International Journalism• September 15, 2004 Statistics don’t matter when disease and disaster exact such high human tolls in Africa. Read more
Trapped in a Time-Warped Narrative By Fergal Keane• International Journalism• September 15, 2004 A BBC foreign correspondent pleads with journalists to move past their relentless focus on Africa’s misery. Read more
