Topic: Africa

When Corporate Managers Nudge News Decisions
The clash of cultures ‘affects editors’ and reporters’ ability to investigate stories and break new ones.’
By Philippa Green

Confronting ‘The Health Care World of Want’
A trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo results in a journalist’s determination to find ways to report on the devastation she now knows exists.
By Susan Dentzer

Repressive Actions Give Way to Business Realities
‘Independent newspapers and privately owned TV and radio stations lack the economies of scale necessary to become sustainable businesses.’
By Shyaka Kanuma

In Zimbabwe, Courage Is the Journalist’s Companion
‘What Mugabe did not want the press to report was how he was using systematic state torture and violence against blacks opposed to his rule.’
By Andrew Meldrum

Zimbabwe: Telling the Story, Reporting the News
‘The finer points of journalism have, regrettably, had to be compromised in the desperate battle for access to information. This is guerrilla journalism ….’
By Wilf Mbanga

Terror Unleashed
By Sunday Dare

Murder, Threats, Fires and Intimidation in Gambia
An anonymous letter sent to a prominent journalist ‘promised to teach a lesson to journalists who persisted in their negative reporting.’
By Alagi Yorro Jallow

Violence in Liberia Extends to Journalists
‘The government warned that any journalist or news organization that violated the ban would be considered and treated as “rebels.”’
By Isaac Bantu

Dictatorship and Democracy Require Different Kinds of Courage
‘Officials begged the magazine not to pursue the story and then they enticed us with rewards. All efforts to derail our reporting failed.’
By Sunday Dare

Using the Internet to Examine Patterns of Foreign Coverage
African events are often not reported because Western news coverage is strongly connected to a nation’s wealth.
By Ethan Zuckerman