People of Color Vulnerable to Extreme Weather

NAHJ Board Rules Its VP/Print Ineligible to Serve

Washington Post Won’t Let Disappearance Case Die

USA Today Denies Giving Trump a Free Pass

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People of Color Vulnerable to Extreme Weather

When scientists convened by the United Nations warned this week that the immediate consequences of climate change are more dire than previously thought, most Americans were not thinking of people of color. But that’s exactly who should be worried, according to some who attended last week’s Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Flint, Mich.

“The report, issued on Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of scientists convened by the United Nations to guide world leaders, describes a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040 — a period well within the lifetime of much of the global population,” Coral Davenport reported Sunday for the New York Times.

The scientists said “that avoiding the damage requires transforming the world economy at a speed and scale that has ‘no documented historic precedent,’ ” Davenport reported.

There “is already the documented evidence that people of color tend to live in the areas most vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events,” Theresa Braine, a freelance journalist and former environment editor at Indian Country Media Network, messaged Journal-isms Wednesday.

“Extreme heat kills more people in the United States each year than any other weather event,” added Justine Calma, a staff writer for the environmental publication Grist. “Because of the urban heat island effect, low-income neighborhoods and communities of color are often warmer than surrounding areas and more vulnerable [to] heat-related illness and death.”

“[P]eople of color generally, especially low-income people, face higher risks from climate change,” agreed Yessenia Funes, staff reporter for Earther. “This is true across the U.S. and across the globe. While some whiter regions of the U.S. may reap economic benefits from warmer seasons, places that are already hot (think Louisiana or Florida) will see severe economic loss.”

And yet, some fear that the environmental crisis isn’t titillating enough to capture the news media’s sustained attention.

“That story on the report was the most prominent one on The Post’s home page on Monday morning, and in almost as prominent a place in the New York Times, as well as both papers’ print front pages,” media critic Margaret Sullivan wrote Monday in the Washington Post. “It got prominent attention on TV, too.

“But it will need sustained emphasis, by the media and the public, all over the world, if we stand a chance of maintaining a livable planet.

“ ‘A bracing reminder that every issue we devote attention to other than climate change is really a secondary issue,’ wrote Philip Gourevitch, author and New Yorker staff writer, on Twitter about the report.

“And The Post quoted Erik Solheim, executive director of the U.N. Environment Program: ‘It’s like a deafening, piercing smoke alarm going off in the kitchen. We have to put out the fire.’

“That will be very much against the grain for the distraction-prone media and the news-weary public.

“Recall that in the three presidential debates, not a single question was asked about climate change. Nor was it raised in the vice presidential debate.

“Since his election, President Trump has turned his back on national and global efforts to control the problem — essentially saying it’s going to happen anyway so why bother to try to stop it?

“Meanwhile, there is so much else to distract us at every turn. . . .”

Here are other reactions:

Mark Trahant, editor, Indian Country Today:

“Huge issue. One of the important areas for Native coverage is to avoid doing the same story. Too many journalists go to the same communities that will require mass relocation. It’s a tough one. But I am as interested in resilience as I am in disaster.”

Trahant referred to the Caribbean island of Dominica and a story he did for the publication Wassaja. There, “The Kalinago people were among the first Native Americans to encounter Christopher Columbus (video),” according to the text accompanying the video. “The tribe, over the centuries, fought off the Spanish, the French, and were eventually pushed by the British to a small corner of their own island. Yet they remain. Now on their homeland the Kalinago face a new challenge, climate change and stronger hurricanes. But the Kalinago are resilient.”

Trahant’s message continued, “In a recent story I did for Wassaja, for example, I focused on how Kalinago homes withstood hurricane force winds better than colonial housing.

“I will be in Alaska next week reporting on this issue, working with a group of elders from the Bering Sea. Indian Country is on the front lines of climate change. Many communities are not looking to 2020 but [are] thinking about the changes that have to happen now.”

Debra Krol, a journalist in Arizona and an enrolled member of the Xolon Salinan tribe, on the central coast of California, agreed.

“The signs have been pointing to a possible warming cascade for a while now, as any environmental journalist could aver. We’ve (that is, the few of us Indigenous journalists who are covering climate and environment) been following the science for years now, as well as talking with elders, culture bearers and other possessors of TEK, aka traditional ecological knowledge, to round out our reporting expertise.”

Krol added, “What I’d like to say is not to my fellow journalists of color but to mainstream, Anglo journalists: Please don’t ‘parachute’ into tribal communities and try to report on environmental (or pretty much any) issues without doing your homework. It’s not like descending upon Tallahassee to cover Hurricane Michael — there are hundreds of tribes representing hundreds of tribal cultures, and none are exactly like the others.

“And, while doing said homework, try not to depend on past coverage too much — because a lot of it contains factual errors which become reinforced when repeated. Start at the beginning, reach out to tribal leaders, traditional leaders or other such experts. Here’s a great tool to use to determine who’s an actual expert or leader and who’s just an Indian with an opinion [PDF]. I passed out a stack of them at SEJ and journalists were happy to get them — so folks, please use them.

“And please don’t depend on us Native journalists to provide you with extensive contacts and sources—professional courtesy on occasion is acceptable, but wholesale brain picking is not. . . .”

Emilia Askari, co-chair of SEJ’s Flint conference, messaged, “Journalists of color should know that climate change is an environmental justice issue on a global scale. Low-income people will be less able to adapt, in the US and around the world. Also, journalists of color should know that the Society of Environmental Journalists is a great resource that will help improve their reporting on both climate change and environmental justice.

“We have been talking about how to cover these topics for almost three decades. And we walk the talk. Our national conference just ended on Sunday in Flint, Michigan. We know the Flint story isn’t over. Audio recordings of the sessions should be posted on . . . www.sej.org in the next week or two.

Askari also wrote, “It is not necessary to quote nay-sayers to achieve ‘balance’ in every story about climate change. Doing that gives the nay-sayers more credibility than they should have, based on their standing among scientists. Also, know that while climate change is a partisan issue in the US, this is not true in many other countries.

“In the US, pro-business Republicans are sometimes associated with opposition to climate-related regulation. Yet, climate change is really bad for business. The insurance industry, in particular, is in grave jeopardy because of climate change. Think what might happen if many people and companies are no longer able to buy property insurance.

“Climate change is the story of the century. It’s a good idea for all journalists, including journalists of color, to get ready to dig into this topic. . . .”

However, Funes said business might benefit. “It’s key to be aware who’s benefiting from this devastation — like multinational corporations or private solar companies — and at what cost to the people who need to prepare for impacts like stronger hurricanes or longer droughts,” she wrote. “Ultimately, how people of colors’ health is impacted is the most important question. This could be their physical or mental health. Climate change has the potential to harm both.”

Braine, the freelance journalist, said she “found this Grist article about the ways that climate change can exacerbate pressures on health that already affect people of color disproportionately.

“In addition, I was just reading the stories about the effects of rising heat on mental health. While there was no direct connection to people of color, I wonder if those issues could be compounded for that segment of the population.

“This Miami Herald article specifically mentions women and low-income people as bearing the brunt of mental health challenges engendered by climate change.

“On the upside, Indigenous Peoples have longstanding knowledge of climate patterns and such, and are increasingly intersecting with scientists in looking for solutions. A number of tribes have also signed onto the climate accord even though the US has pulled out.”

• Desmond Brown, Inter Presse Service: Climate Change Response Must Be Accompanied By a Renewed Approach to Economic Development
• Editorial, Chicago Sun-Times: Climate change is upon us, and we must take dramatic action now
• Kristina Marusic, Environmental Health News: Diversity in environmental organizations is improving, with still a long way to go.
• Paloma Martinez and Jason Hickel, Al Jazeera: Mexico is on the verge of a major human disaster
• Media Matters for America: Fox News largely ignored a major new climate change report
• Jay Michaelson, Daily Beast: Kavanaugh and Supreme Court to Planet: Drop Dead
• Eugene Robinson, Washington Post: Our planet is in crisis. We don’t have time for Trump’s foolishness.
• Christin Roby, Devex: Renewed pressure on African governments to lead agricultural transformation (Sept. 6)
• Teresa Welsh, Devex: Climate change contributes to food insecurity in Latin American women (Sept. 27)

NAHJ Board Rules Its VP/Print Ineligible to Serve

The board of directors of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists has voted to remove NAHJ’s newly elected vice president for print after her eligibility to serve was questioned by her write-in opponent, NAHJ President Hugo Balta announced on Tuesday.

However, the removal of Vicki Adame, who works as a contractor for China’s state-run Xinhua agency in Mexico City, does not mean that the runner-up, María Peña, will automatically be seated, according to NAHJ spokeswoman B.A. Snyder.

“The board is weighing all of their options regarding this vacancy along with the other current vacancies on the board,” Snyder said by email.

The NAHJ bylaws say, “Regular Members may not be employees of a government-supported news organization.”

Adame did not reply to a request for comment, but said in July, after her election, “The bulk of my income is from freelancing. The work with Xinhua is a contractor position; the contract is for 3 months. And the elections committee vetted me and found me eligible, and even after I was on the ballot asked for additional documentation because individuals were questioning my eligibility. They found everything to be in order. I am also a lifetime member, a category that is not listed.”

Asked about the board’s decision, Peña, a Washington correspondent for ImpreMedia who had been the incumbent, messaged, “I think it’s the right thing to do from an organization that seeks to hold other individuals and organizations accountable.”

Balta praised Adame in his letter to members. “The board’s decision is not a reflection of Ms. Adame’s long commitment to NAHJ.

“In addition to being a lifetime member, Adame is the founder and key developer for a strong NAHJ Bay Area chapter and has served as the president of the CUNY student chapter in New York.

“Formerly, she worked on the NAHJ staff focusing on communications and helped to lead the organization into an extremely successful #NABJNAHJ16 convention. . . .”

Washington Post Won’t Let Disappearance Case Die

One of the public faces  (video) of the Washington Post’s campaign to determine the fate of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who also wrote for the Post, has been Karen Attiah, the Post’s global opinions editor.

“As the one responsible for recruiting him, and being his editor over the last year, I knew him very well,” Attiah messaged Journal-isms on Wednesday.

“So I feel [it’s] my responsibility to do as much as I can to bring attention to Jamal’s case. My colleagues Jason Rezaian and Eli Lopez are also doing a number of media appearances. We are also planning to commission op-eds and commentary. We won’t let this case die down.”

Attiah has worked as a freelance reporter for the Associated Press, Huffington Post, Sahara Reporters and several other news outlets. Born in Desoto, Texas, to a Nigerian-Ghanaian mother and Ghanaian father, she has a master’s degree in international relations from Columbia University.

Among Wednesday’s developments, Shane Harris reported for the Post, “The crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered an operation to lure Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia from his home in Virginia and then detain him, according to U.S. intelligence intercepts of Saudi officials discussing the plan.

“The intelligence, described by U.S. officials familiar with it, is another piece of evidence implicating the Saudi regime in Khashoggi’s disappearance last week after he entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. Turkish officials say that a Saudi security team lay in wait for the journalist and killed him. . . .”

• Hatice Cengiz, Washington Post: Please, President Trump, shed light on my fiance’s disappearance
• Editorial, Boston Globe: Trump’s attacks on journalists seed violence
• Editorial, New York Times: Saudi Arabia Must Answer for Jamal Khashoggi
• Reuters:  Post editor gets emotional over missing Saudi colleague (video)
• Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer: Jamal Khashoggi affair highlights what happens when America abdicates role as free press defender
• Erik Wemple, Washington Post: Why are U.S. media companies partnering with a Saudi conference?
• Betsy Woodruff, Daily Beast: Jamal Khashoggi Wanted to Launch a Pro-Democracy Group. Then the Saudis Disappeared Him.

USA Today Denies Giving Trump a Free Pass

USA Today is defending its publication of an op-ed piece from President Trump that other editors have said contains factual errors and faulty assertions.

“Fact-checkers immediately identified a number of whoppers in the piece, while various members of the media questioned the newspaper’s decision to run it at all,” Tom Klundt wrote Wednesday for CNN Business, “Whether it’s written by the president or a writer toiling in obscurity, the critics argued, the editorial standards still apply.

” ‘The president does not have a free pass,’ former New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal told CNN. ‘Our standard at the Times was that we do not print things that we knew not to be true, whether it was a letter, an editorial, a column or an op-ed. If a letter writer said something that was false, we would require them to correct or we wouldn’t run it.’ Marjorie Pritchard, the op-ed page editor at the Boston Globe, echoed that. . . .”

In the op-ed, Trump denounced “Medicare for all,” a proposal backed by many Democrats.

Brett Samuels wrote in the Hill, “USA Today embedded links in Trump’s op-ed that provided more context for his statements, some of which were contradicted by the information in the links.

“Democratic lawmakers and fact-checkers have highlighted what they say are problems with the president’s arguments.

“Glenn Kessler, who heads up The Washington Post’s Fact Checker section, wrote that ‘almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or a falsehood.’

“PolitiFact reviewed a dozen of Trump’s remarks in the op-ed and said many of them lacked full context or were inaccurate. . . .”

However, Manny Garcia, the USA Today standards editor, defended his newspaper in language similar to that of editorial page editor Bill Sternberg, who was quoted in the Hill story. “USA TODAY Opinion provides a forum for a diversity of views on issues of national relevance,” Garcia messaged. “We see ourselves as America’s conversation center, presenting our readers with voices from the left, middle and right.

“President Trump’s op-ed was treated like other column submissions; we check factual assertions while allowing authors wide leeway to express their opinions. Readers are invited to submit opposing viewpoints and provide additional context, some of which will be published in the days ahead.”

At 5:56 p.m. ET, the newspaper posted comments in opposition to Trump’s piece under the headline, ‘Donald Trump knows nothing about Medicare, health care or Democrats: Talker”

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• Response to a photo in this column of a reunion of the Washington Post Metro Seven, black reporters who filed a discrimination complaint against the Washington Post in 1972, was so great that this site has decided to place online for the first time the correspondence between the reporters and management. The documentation of what led to the filing before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, along with contemporary news reports and commentary, is at http://3.17.62.187/category/washington-post-metro-seven/ . Readers with memories of that time or who were influenced by the action are encouraged to send their comments to Journal-isms, whether or not for publication.
• In an unusual public announcement, the Washington Post said Tuesday it “is looking for six reporters and an editor to expand our team covering the 2020 presidential election. . . . We are looking for reporters who can do it all: travel extensively, deliver scoops, spot off-beat tales, capture pivotal moments and write about the candidates in a revealing and compelling way. We also want people who are as eager to provide aggressive coverage of the administration that follows the election as they are the campaign. . . .”
• “The Pacifica Foundation has hired longtime public radio executive Maxie Jackson as its new executive director,” Tyler Falk reported Tuesday for Current.org. “Jackson has worked in numerous leadership positions in public radio, most recently as station manager at ideastream in Cleveland. He also served as president and CEO of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. . . .” Jackson told Journal-isms he will be based in Washington.

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  “Chief Wahoo, the mascot of the Cleveland Indians, expired late Monday after his baseball team was eliminated from the American League Division Series, swept in three games by the defending World Series champion Houston Astros. . . .,” Jacob Bogage reported Tuesday for the Washington Post. “His demise was inevitable since January, when Indians owner Paul Dolan and MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred agreed the team would no longer use the Chief Wahoo Indian head logo after the 2018 season. . . .”

• “Big house style news!” New York Times television critic James Poniewozik tweeted Tuesday. “As of this week, the NYT is no longer using courtesy titles — Mr, Ms., &c — in TV, music, movies and other pop-culture coverage. “You all still need to address me as ‘Mr. Poniewozik,’ however.”
• In Norfolk, Va., “After 26 years of broadcast excellence, 13News Now is saying thank you and goodbye to Regina Mobley,” WVEC-TV reported on Monday, updated Thursday. The station added, “Regina has also been awarded two regional Emmy awards, gold in the 2012 Hampton Roads Magazine Reader’s Choice Award for Best Female TV News Anchor, and her induction into the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame in 2014. . . .”
• “Jamie Foster abruptly left Nexstar owned WATE in Knoxville, TN,” the subscription-only NewsBlues site reported Oct. 1 “He’d been the ND [news director] . . . since September, 2006. He’s also worked in Washington, Richmond, and South Florida. . . .”
  

Sunday’s “Great Day in Detroit” photo shoot. (video) (Credit: WDIV-TV)

• “About 30 Detroit-area black journalists gathered today to participate in the ‘A Great Day In Detroit’ photo shoot,” Larry Spruill and Natasha Dado reported Sunday for WDIV-TV. “The journalists work in radio, public relations, newspapers, television and other areas of the media. . . .”
• After a Facebook post by prominent University of Mississippi donor Ed Meek was denounced as racist, some professors say the university should rename its journalism school for Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the African American journalist who crusaded against lynching, Emily Wagster Pettus reported Saturday for the Associated Press. Pettus also wrote, “A letter from 62 Ole Miss professors and several instructors and graduate students was published Friday in the student newspaper, The Daily Mississippian, suggesting the journalism school be named for Wells-Barnett. They also suggest that the university start journalism scholarships for black women and that it start a Reparative Justice Committee that would work toward removing a Confederate soldier statue that has stood for generations in a prominent place on campus. . . .”
• Airing Saturday at 8 p.m. Eastern time, 7 p.m Central, ” ‘Love & Hate Crime: A Murder in Mississippi’ explores the ripple effects of a murder fueled by racism,” Investigation Discovery says in a note to the media. “The documentary takes a revealing look at the murder of James ‘Craig’ Anderson, who was targeted simply because of the color of his skin by a group of white teens.” In 2011, “This group from Rankin County, Mississippi decided to head over to nearby Jackson to intentionally assault someone in the majority black population of the city, which they dubbed ‘Jafrica.’ . . . Viewed as a modern day lynching, the case was turned over to the FBI which successfully prosecuted Deryl Dedmon, the driver, and nine additional teenagers for the first time under federal hate crime laws. . . .” More
• In 1906, gunfire erupted in Brownsville, Texas, leaving a white bartender dead and a white police lieutenant wounded. “Soon, the city’s mayor and other white citizens had accused about 20 unidentified black soldiers stationed nearby, at Fort Brown, of having shot up the town,” obituary writer Sam Roberts recalled Monday in the New York Times. “ ‘Dastardly Outrage by Negro Soldiers’ read the headline in The Brownsville Herald the next day. The soldiers, members of the segregated First Battalion, 25th Infantry (Colored), as it was known, professed their innocence. . . . President Theodore Roosevelt, as commander in chief, promptly and summarily discharged all 167 members of the unit, asserting that they had engaged in a ‘conspiracy of silence’ by refusing to confess or incriminate fellow soldiers. A United States Senate inquiry two years later upheld his action.” In 1972, Lt. Col. William Baker, who died Sept. 24 at age 86, successfully persuaded the Army to reverse Roosevelt’s 1906 ruling and all 167 soldiers were belatedly granted honorable discharges. Brownsville Herald Editor Ryan Henry did not respond to a question Wednesday about whether the paper ever apologized for its inflammatory headline.
• “Kevin Yamamura, currently the assistant managing editor of the Sacramento Bee, is joining POLITICO as editor of the California Pro team. He’s the first hire in a significant California expansion,” Michael Calderone reported Wednesday for Politico.
• “Phrases like ‘low man on the totem pole,’ ‘let’s go powwowing,’ [or] ‘off the reservation’ are not acceptable and are often used in the wrong context,” according to Rhonda LeValdo, a former president of the Native American Journalists Association. She teaches mass communications at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kan. “I try to make sure my students aren’t using stereotypes of other groups as well,” she said as part of a story by Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton Monday for the International Journalists Network. It was headlined, “When reporting on Indian Country, remember these tips.” Dozens of cities and towns and several states have replaced Columbus Day, which was celebrated Monday, with Indigenous Peoples Day, Mahtowin Munro noted Friday in the Boston Globe.
• “Oprah Winfrey Network Monday named Tina Perry general manager of the network, replacing departing network president Erik Logan,” R. Thomas Umstead reported for Broadcasting & Cable. “Perry, promoted from executive VP of business and legal affairs, will oversee all business and creative areas of OWN beginning January 2019. Perry will report directly to network chairman and CEO Oprah Winfrey. OWN is a joint venture of Winfrey’s Harpo Inc. and Discovery Inc. . . .”
• “The TV academy’s first African-American chairman is stepping down after two years,” the Associated Press reported Wednesday. “Hayma Washington told Variety he decided against seeking a second two-year term so he could focus on his work as a producer and promote diversity. Washington also has served as chief executive officer of the academy, which administers the Emmy Awards. . . .”
• “Vernon Odom, a member of the Action News team at ABC O&O WPVI Philadelphia (DMA 4) for 42 years, has been named Person of the Year by Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia,” Mark K. Miller reported for TVNewsCheck.
• “Karle Robinson, a 61-year-old African-American military veteran, told The Star this week that he spent eight minutes in handcuffs after a police officer found him lugging a TV up the steps to his home,” the Kansas City Star editorialized on Friday. “He wasn’t accused of a crime, but an officer thought Robinson’s late night/early morning project was suspicious. By then, the new homeowner had already spent several hours moving and was hauling one final item inside. . . .” The editorial appeared under the headline, “Moving while black is not illegal. So why was this Kansas man handcuffed at his own home?“

• Touring the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a memorial in Montgomery, Ala., to lynching victims, “NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt was visibly moved when he discovered the name of a likely family member. (video) “My grandmother was a Houston,” Holt said during the segment on Tuesday’s program. “And there’s a Houston here. I have to call my father, but — I’ve got phone calls to make.” His guide, Bryan Stevenson, creator of the memorial, replied, “It’s astonishing to me how often that happens.” He turned to Holt and said, “I know they’d be so proud of you.” No word on what Holt’s inquiries turned up.
• “Eseosa Olumhense’s 2017 investigation of what happens to crime victims and witnesses who seek to transfer to new apartments within the New York City Housing Authority has won the Martha Cowan Front Page Award for Best New Journalist from the Newswomen’s Club of New York,” Jarrett Murphy reported Tuesday for City Limits, which originally ran the piece. Olumhense now works for the Chicago Tribune.
• “For the first time in 16 years, The Fresno Bee is endorsing someone other than Republican incumbent Rep. Devin Nunes in the 22nd congressional district race,” AsAmNews reported Monday. “Instead, the Bee is endorsing first-time candidate Andrew Janz over the incumbent. . . . The Bee invited both candidates to interviews, but only Thai American Janz accepted. Relations between the newspaper and Nunes [have] been tense this campaign. The Republican has accused the newspaper of pushing a ‘leftist, liberal socialist’ agenda. Last week, Nunes’ campaign mailed out a 40-page pamphlet attacking the newspaper. . . .”
• “More than a year after allegations of rape and sexual assault against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein first shook the world, female journalists and writers in India are naming and shaming Indian entertainers, newspaper editors, authors and a politician on social media,” Vidhi Doshi reported from New Delhi Tuesday for the Washington Post. “Some say India’s #MeToo moment is here — at last.” New York Times
• “Pakistan’s media was widely seen as among the region’s most vibrant after military rule ended in 2008, but a dozen newspaper and TV journalists say the industry is now in disarray because of intimidation and army pressure,“ Saad Sayeed reported Tuesday for Reuters.
• “The Financial Times said in an editorial Sunday that the expulsion of one of its journalists from Hong Kong sends a chilling message about the steady erosion of basic rights in the semiautonomous Chinese city, as more than 15,000 people signed an online petition calling for an explanation from the government,” Austin Ramzy reported Monday for the New York Times. “The newspaper said Friday that Victor Mallet, its Asia news editor, was told his work visa would not be renewed. It is believed to be the first such expulsion of a foreign journalist since Hong Kong, a former British colony, returned to Chinese control in 1997. . . .”
• In Sierra Leone, “The editor of Awareness Times newspaper, John Korama, was on September 29, 2018, assaulted by vigilantes of the ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) in the full glare of the police and the Chairman of the SLPP, while the journalist was covering a bye-election at Mile-14 Town in Tonko Limba,” the Media Foundation for West Africa reported Oct. 4.
• “The Peruvian journalistic site IDL-Reporteros, which in the middle of this year revealed a deep crisis in the country’s judicial system through the release of audio recordings of telephone leaks, asked the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) to demand that the government provide urgent protection measures for journalists and officials investigating the alleged acts of corruption,” Paola Nalvarte reported Oct. 3 for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas.
• “Due to the various attacks against journalist Claudia Julieta Duque and her daughter, María Alejandra Gómez, since 2001, the women presented their case against Colombia before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) this Oct. 1, according to the Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP, for its acronym in Spanish),” Silvia Higuera reported Oct. 3 for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. “The complaint, delivered by Duque’s daughter on behalf of herself and her mother, tells how they have been victims of abduction, threats, psychological torture, persecution and exile for years, FLIP added. Most of these remain unpunished despite the fact that there are open investigations. . . . ” Duque appeared on a panel at the June conference of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in Miami discussing violence against Latin American journalists.
• As a young reporter in July 2011, Anna Nimiriano wandered through downtown Juba the day South Sudan became independent from Sudan, asking anyone who would stop for their views of the country’s future, Ryan Lenora Brown wrote Oct. 4 for the Christian Science Monitor. Brown also wrote, “seven years later, as the editor in chief of one of the country’s most circulated English-language newspapers, Ms. Nimiriano sits watch over a paper that is both a record of the country’s immense turmoil and an institution struggling to withstand it. . . .”

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