Some Alumnae Want Search Process Reopened
Trump Tells ABC’s Cecilia Vega She’s ‘Not Thinking’
Clarence Thomas Accuser Sharing Her Story Again
African Americans Played Role in Convicting Cosby
Free of ESPN, Jemele Hill Joins the Atlantic
White House Press Slow to Look Like America
Reporting While Black and Ignoring the Side-Eye
After Stories, Police Revisit Immigrants’ Treatment
‘Yellow’: Too Noxious for Asian Americans?
Support Journal-ismsSome Alumnae Want Search Process Reopened
When Gwen Ifill’s alma mater, Simmons University (until last month known as Simmons College), announced in November 2017 that it would name its College of Media, Arts and Humanities after the late PBS journalist, among the proudest were Ifill’s sisterhood of black female journalists.
Simmons had apparently become the first majority-white college to name a school after an African American journalist.
In April, the Boston women’s school announced the Ifill college’s first dean.
The choice did not go over as well as administrators expected, Regina Pisa, chair of the Board of Trustees, and President Helen Drinan acknowledged to the college community on Thursday.
“Classmates, friends and faculty from Ms. Ifill’s student days — and some who came to know her in her adult life — have expressed deep hurt and disappointment. Indeed, some have requested that we remove the new dean and re-open the search. . . .”
In fact, Deirdre Fernandes reported Tuesday in the Boston Globe, “Simmons University has postponed a gala and series of events to launch the Gwen Ifill College of Media, Arts, and Humanities in the face of criticism that a school named in honor of a pioneering black, female journalist named a white man as its first dean. . . .”
She added, “Simmons had planned two days of festivities in mid-October to celebrate Ifill’s contributions and to raise money for student scholarships. Ifill’s former colleagues, including Judy Woodruff, her co-host on ‘PBS NewsHour,’ and television reporter Sam Donaldson, were slated to attend and family, friends, and colleagues were scheduled to talk about issues of politics and media.
“After talking to Ifill’s family members, Simmons decided to postpone many of the events and instead hold a ribbon-cutting for the college and host a private dinner in Ifill’s honor, Drinan said. . . .”
Michele Norris, a former NPR host and a close, longtime friend of Ifill’s, told Fernandes, “In the three decades I knew Gwen, she was always, always, concerned about making sure that women, and women of color, who were qualified for certain jobs, got a shot at those jobs.”
Chosen as dean was Brian Norman, described at his April appointment as “a scholar of American and African American literature, professor of English, and academic administrator who most recently served as Associate Vice President of Faculty Affairs and Diversity at Loyola University in Baltimore, MD. He has taught a wide range of courses in literature and culture, and he founded Loyola’s program in African and African American Studies. His research projects engage with questions of identity, belonging, justice, and the relationship between literature and social change. . . .”
The administrators’ message continued, “We understand the disappointment that the inaugural dean of the Ifill College is not a woman of color, as that would have been one way to honor Ms. Ifill’s legacy. However, it is not appropriate to terminate our new dean who was selected through a deliberative search process with a national firm and community engagement. Instead, we should direct our energies to continuing to identify ways we can honor Ms. Ifill’s legacy.
“From the moment he was a candidate, Dean Norman has been thinking deeply about the promise and responsibility of naming a college in Ms. Ifill’s honor and has already begun working with faculty and others to advance her legacy through public engagement, student mentoring, faculty diversity, public programming, and other initiatives.
“One such initiative was to be the first annual Ifill Symposium, bringing together faculty, students, community partners, alumni and luminaries into conversation around big questions Ms. Ifill herself would be asking of the world today. We have postponed that new tradition until next year.
“We believe this moment is an opportunity to elevate the conversation about inclusion, equity, and diversity on our campus, and to think through best practices in creating an inclusive and equitable experience for all members of the Simmons community. . . .”
Pisa and Drinan outlined steps they would take to increase diversity at the university and declared, “We understand these actions will not satisfy completely some of our alumnae who are disappointed in us. And we agree that the effort around inclusive hiring is important, but what counts more are the results. We are committed to ensuring that all voices are heard and all perspectives valued. This will make Simmons University a place that all of us can be proud of.”
Separately, Simmons was ranked No. 1 in Massachusetts in a new report weighing how equally women were represented in the president’s office and among leadership positions, Grank Welker reported Monday for Worcester (Mass.) Business Journal. Simmons was followed by Smith College, a women’s liberal arts school in Northampton.
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Trump Tells ABC’s Cecilia Vega She’s ‘Not Thinking’
“President Donald Trump insulted a female reporter for ABC News on Monday during a Rose Garden news conference, telling her that she ‘never’ thinks even before she had a chance to ask her question,” Alex Wayne reported for Bloomberg.
“As the reporter, Cecilia Vega, turned to retrieve a microphone to ask Trump a question, Trump joked ‘she’s shocked that I picked her. Like in a state of shock.’
“Vega responded, ‘I’m not, thank you Mr. President.’
“Trump appeared to misunderstand her. ‘That’s OK, I know you’re not thinking, you never do.’
“ ‘I’m sorry?’ she responded.
“ ‘No, go ahead. Go ahead,’ Trump said.
“In a transcript released later Monday, the White House quoted Trump differently, saying he said ‘I know you’re not thanking.’
“Vega tried to ask a question about the FBI investigation of sexual assault allegations against Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, but the president initially insisted she ask about trade. He returned to Vega later for a Kavanaugh question. . . .”
In a July discussion of “Latinos & the White House: The Unique Challenge of Covering the Trump Administration” at the annual conference of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Vega recalled that her mother asked why she would want such an assignment. “You’re Mexican, a journalist and a woman, the three things he hates,” her mother said.
Vega said she replied, “What better place to be than sitting in that front row?”
- Emil Guillermo, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund: Racism, sexism, and Kavanaugh
- Latino Rebels: New Poll by Telemundo, NBC News and WSJ Says 65% of Latinos Disapprove of President Trump
- Juan Williams, the Hill: Trump is tearing the racial fabric
Angela Wright-Shannon (Credit: Charlotte Observer)
Clarence Thomas Accuser Sharing Her Story Again
A freelance journalist who accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment nearly three decades ago said she sees some similarities with current high court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, whose “fate hangs in the balance amid an FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations,” Terry Collins of the Grio reported Saturday.
Like Anita Hill, Angela Wright, now Angela Wright-Shannon, is resurfacing in the news media in connection with the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Kavanaugh. She “worked for Thomas when he chaired the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the 1980s. During a recent interview with Vice News, she expressed empathy for Christine Blasey Ford, a California college professor who testified Thursday that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her,” Collins wrote.
The website added, “Wright was an assistant metro editor at the Charlotte Observer when was subpoenaed to testify during Thomas’ confirmation hearings 27 years ago. She told Senate investigators that when she worked as the EEOC’s public affairs director, Thomas was lewd and crass. She said he was pressuring her to go out with him. Wright said Thomas also asked about breast size and showed up at her apartment uninvited. . . .”
Before the explosive testimony Thursday by Ford and Kavanaugh, Wright-Shannon was also interviewed by the Charlotte Observer and the New York Times. The Times’ Susan Chira asked Wright-Shannon, “Why didn’t you volunteer to testify — you had said you were upset watching Anita Hill get vilified?”
Wright-Shannon replied, “I didn’t want to get involved in that process. My opinion was that the F.B.I. should have properly vetted him to start out. If they’d properly vetted him, they would have talked to me. I would have told them about the man I experienced. I wanted to be a journalist, I didn’t want to be the news. I had info I thought was pertinent. I didn’t mind giving them a statement. It was a fine line for me to try to walk, wanting to be an impartial journalist and having an experience in a news story that was relevant.”
Wright-Shannon also said, “In pretty much every environment I worked in Washington, there was somebody there who made inappropriate remarks. I had a member of Congress call me to tell me that he’d like to take me out. . . .”
Meanwhile, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the Senate’s only black Republican, announced Monday that he would vote for Kavanaugh “barring the discovery of any new information by the FBI investigation.” Scott wrote, “This is not an easy decision, but the available evidence leads me to it. Even though this was not a criminal trial, I believe the freedoms granted by the constitution regarding proving guilt must still apply.”
- Jonathan Capehart, Washington Post: Hell hath no fury like an entitled white man denied
- Linda Chavez, Chicago Sun-Times: Kavanaugh hearing was like a Rorschach test
- Editorial, Boston Globe: The lies that senators must tell themselves to support Brett Kavanaugh
- Editorial, Des Moines Register: Even if Kavanaugh is innocent, his confirmation could damage the Supreme Court
- Editorial, News & Record, Greensboro, N.C.: College campuses must attack problem of sexual assault
- Briahna Gray and Camille Baker, the Intercept: The Unbearable Dishonesty of Brett Kavanaugh
- Roy S. Johnson, al.com: What was Brett Kavanaugh’s wife thinking?
- Paul Krugman, New York Times: The Angry White Male Caucus
- Michael Levenson and Travis Andersen, Boston Globe: Kavanaugh’s course at Harvard Law is cancelled
- Phillip Morris, Plain Dealer, Cleveland: Would you know your high school yearbook self?
- Julianne Malveaux, National Newspaper Publishers Association: The Pernicious Power of Patriarchy
- Askia Muhammad, Washington Informer: Kavanaugh Scraped from Bottom of Barrel
- Ruben Navarrette Jr., Washington Post Writers Group: Kavanaugh hearings put confirmation process on trial, and the verdict is guilty
- Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald: Republican senators can’t even fake compassion competently
- Kyle Potter, Associated Press: Keith Ellison abuse claim unsubstantiated, draft DFL report says
- Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press: Kavanaugh hearing was worse than Thomas’, showed worst of America
- Jeff Rivers, the Undefeated: It’s a day of reckoning for men who just don’t get it
- Fabiola Santiago, Miami Herald: It’s a shameful abuse of power if Kavanaugh is confirmed after Ford’s testimony
- Linda Valdez, Arizona Republic: Brett Kavanaugh hearing is just the latest reminder of how deeply misogynist we are
- Laura Washington, Chicago Sun-Times: Protecting reproductive rights is about equity and economic justice
African Americans Played Role in Convicting Cosby
“This time, Bill Cosby messed with the wrong woman,” Colbert I. King wrote Friday for the Washington Post. “Now he’s living out his days in service of a three-to-10-year prison sentence for sexual assault in the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix in Collegeville, Pa.
“Cosby, 81, should have figured out what he was up against when, the day before his case went to the jury in April, he was caught chuckling and smirking at the defense table. Assistant District Attorney Kristen Gibbons Feden, a 35-year-old African American graduate of Temple Law School, and an expert in sex crimes, was having none of it.
“Feden exploded, reported Post reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia, who was in the courtroom:
“ ‘He’s laughing like it’s funny!’ Feden said Tuesday in a booming voice, stalking toward the comic legend and extending a long, slender, accusatory forefinger. ‘But there’s absolutely nothing funny about stripping a woman of her capacity to consent.’ . . .”
King also wrote, “Not only was it an African American prosecutor who pressed charges against Cosby. African American women were among Cosby’s accusers.
“And it was Harry Hairston, an African American investigative reporter from NBC10 in Philadelphia, who went on broadcaster Joe Madison’s radio show in November 2014 and discussed how he first broke the story of women’s accusations of sexual assault against Cosby. . . .”
- Lillian Brown, Boston Globe: Kristen Gibbons Feden, Cosby prosecutor, receives Victim Rights Law Center award in Boston
- Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Stepping into Bill Cosby’s darkness
Free of ESPN, Jemele Hill Joins the Atlantic
“As of Sept. 14, Jemele Hill is officially free of ESPN — and yes, ESPN is now free of Jemele Hill,” James Andrew Miller wrote Monday for the Hollywood Reporter.
“Even though Hill, the often outspoken anchor and reporter, had more than two years left on her contract and management dangled a couple of arguably unrealistic opportunities that would allow her to stay, both parties basically acknowledged that their past together prohibited a future.
“The more than $5 million buyout Hill is due will be paid in a series of tranches this year and next — suggesting savvy tax planning on her part or a ‘be careful what you say’ warning from her former employer. Nevertheless, true to her DNA, Hill isn’t pulling any punches.
“ ‘It just kind of became obvious to me that the relationship — as good and as fruitful and as beneficial as it was — had really run its course,’ Hill, 42, says now. . . .
“But perhaps the most provocative aspect of Hill’s new life is that she will be joining The Atlantic as a staff writer beginning in October, and will be writing for both the magazine and TheAtlantic.com.
“There’s a warm welcome waiting for her from editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg. ‘She’s interested in something I’ve been preoccupied with for a long time, which is the intersection of sports and race and politics. I think it’s one of the best beats in America,’ Goldberg says. ‘When I saw that Jemele was leaving ESPN, and when I realized, in reading more about her, that she is, at heart, a reporter, I thought it was a perfect match. Because I want to cover this subject in a serious way.’
“Asked how life at The Atlantic may differ from Jemele’s days at ESPN, Goldberg responds instantly.
“ ‘Put it this way, my journalistic interests are somewhat different than Disney’s,’ Goldberg says. ‘Let me be diplomatic. I’m not sure that, as a consumer of ESPN products, I’m not sure that ESPN is particularly interested, especially in television, in standing at the intersection of sports and culture and race and gender and politics. It can be a pretty dangerous corner for some people. But that’s exactly the intersection that I want to be at.’ . . .”
White House Press Slow to Look Like America
“The New York Times hired its seventh reporter to cover the White House last month, giving the newspaper one of the largest contingents of correspondents on the beat,” Paul Farhi reported Sunday for the Washington Post. “Aside from being top-flight journalists, the crew shares a common trait: All seven are white.
“That’s not exactly unusual around the White House press briefing room these days. The press corps that covers the president has long been overwhelmingly composed of white reporters. The White House reporting staffs of the largest and most prominent outlets, particularly newspapers and newswires, tend to be the least racially diverse of all.
“Does it matter?
“Does racial background affect how a reporter covers a story? Or is it just one factor that determines how a journalist sees the world, the way age, gender, education, religious affiliation, regional and economic background, ideological leanings, or military service might?
“News organizations have declared their intention to diversify their staffs since at least the late 1960s, after the Kerner Commission report on the causes of the urban riots of that decade attributed some of America’s racial divide to a highly segregated media. Newsroom recruiters often say the underlying goal of greater diversity isn’t simply numeric, but journalistic: People from different backgrounds see the world differently and can offer these perspectives to readers and viewers.
“The result of these efforts has been mixed, however. The number of women in journalism is gradually approaching parity with that of men and has more than doubled as a percentage of all professional reporters over the past two decades. But overall, newsrooms have only slowly become less white, lagging far behind changes in the general population.
“Minority journalists accounted for 16.6 percent of the workforce in 2017, compared with 11.3 percent in 1997, according to surveys by the American Society of News Editors. By contrast, the U.S. population as a whole is 39 percent minority, including white Hispanics and Latinos, according to the Census Bureau.
“As the Times’s hiring showed, the White House beat — arguably the beat with the highest profile — may be among the most resistant to change. . . .”
- Paul Farhi, Washington Post: White House press corps of largely white faces (July 25, 2013)
- Brittany Shepherd, Washingtonian: Here’s How I Grapple With Lack of Diversity in the Press Corps as a Black White House Reporter
Reporting While Black and Ignoring the Side-Eye
“Guilty. I am guilty of driving, walking and breathing while black,” John W. Fountain wrote Sept. 22 for the Chicago Sun-Times. “And like many of my African-American journalism colleagues, I have also borne, in the heat of the night, the weight of ‘reporting while black.’
“I have carried that weight of the skin I am in. The awareness that there were those who believed that because I am black I was somehow ‘less than,’ not up to snuff, as a journalist.
“And yet, by the time most of my black colleagues and I arrived at our first big-city daily, we were college-degreed and interned to the hilt. I learned to persevere and extracted lessons for me. Lessons I share today with my journalism students.
“I also learned that to speak out in the newsroom as a black man about matters of race, or even to advocate on my own behalf, was to risk being labeled a whiner, a malcontent. To risk not receiving choice assignments and promotion. I chose: ‘To thine own self be true.’
“As a black journalist, I got the sense that my talents and voice, no matter how celebrated beyond the newsroom, were not as valued internally as my white counterparts’. The sense that as a black journalist I was always subject to the side-eye. . . .”
It’s an observation made not just by black journalists.
Jose Antonio Vargas, the Filipino-born journalist who learned he was undocumented, told a Washington audience two weeks ago that during his five years at the Washington Post, “a lot of people” in the newsroom would look at him as if to say, “What are you doing here?” However, he said black women were protective of him. He names them in his new book, “Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen.”
- Emilia Benton, Popsugar: Here’s Why I Think It’s a Great Time to Be a Latina in Journalism
- Saleah Blancaflor, NBC News Asian America: To write his debut memoir, Jose Antonio Vargas went off the grid (Sept. 18)
- Tim Giago, indianz.com: Reflecting on my life as a Lakota journalist
- Scott Simon with Jose Antonio Vargas, “Weekend Edition Saturday,” NPR: ‘Dear America,’ Writes A Pulitzer-Winning Journalist — And Undocumented Immigrant (Sept. 15)
After Stories, Police Revisit Immigrants’ Treatment
“At the behest of county lawmakers, the Suffolk County Police Department said Thursday it will look into what went wrong when Latino families came to the department in 2016 and 2017, desperate for help finding teenage children who had disappeared, only to have their concerns ignored and their children labeled runaways,” Hannah Dreier reported Friday for ProPublica.
“It turned out that many of the missing had been murdered by members of the gang MS-13, some of them buried in Suffolk County woods known as the gang’s ‘killing fields.’
“The county executive and the head of the Police Department also have agreed to meet with advocates for immigrant and Latino Long Islanders in the coming days.
“The developments came in response to radio, text and video reporting from ProPublica, Newsday and This American Life that outlined how police bias against Latinos hindered the department’s ability to stop a wave of MS-13 murders. . . .”
- Hannah Dreier, ProPublica: What It Was Like Reporting on a Teenager Marked for Death by the Gang MS-13 (April 10)
‘Yellow’: Too Noxious for Asian Americans?
“I‘m on the phone with an associate history professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, named Ellen Wu,” Kat Chow wrote Thursday for NPR’s “Code Switch. “We’re talking about skin color, identity and how people like us — Americans of East Asian descent — can describe ourselves.
“Wu and I agree that there are many words we could use: Asian American, East Asian, East Asian American. People with roots from South Asia or Southeast Asia sometimes refer to themselves as brown, which seems like a useful shorthand. But for a bunch of reasons, brown doesn’t work for East Asians. I’m wondering if there’s a parallel word for us.
“I pose this question, a little hesitantly: What about yellow?
“Wu sucks in a breath. Her gut reaction is No! The word, she says, is too fraught. Using it would be like painting our skin with a sickly, mustard sheen or writing a nasty word on our foreheads. ‘Yellow’ has long been considered noxious. To some, it’s on par with Chink, gook, nip or Chinaman.
“And yet. And yet. I sort of love yellow. The idea of calling myself yellow stirs in the pit of my stomach, the same place where bellyaches and excitement form. It feels at once radical and specific. Though it’s a slur — in fact, because it’s a slur — it’s the type of word that could force people to face its long, storied history of racism and resistance directly, every time they hear it.
“So, what about yellow? . . .”
Short Takes
- A year after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, “many outlets in Puerto Rico have resumed their operations, but had to make cuts on their content,” Zainab Sultan reported Friday for Columbia Journalism Review. “At least two TV stations remain off air. While the media outlets have somewhat recovered, the individuals who lost their jobs in the process still struggle to regain their footing. . . . “
- Variety’s annual New York issue features 12 featured pairings, (scroll down) “mini-profiles written by colleagues, friends, admirers of those on the list,” CNN’s Brian Stelter reported Monday in his “Reliable Sources” newsletter. They include Radhika Jones by Lena Waithe; Cardi B by Michelle Williams; Van Jones by Kim Kardashian West; Zoe Kravitz by Jean-Marc Vallee; and Awkwafina by Anne Hathaway. Full list
- “East Wind magazine, which originally published in 1982 to 1989, has been relaunched as East Wind ezine, an online publication focused on political and cultural issues of Asian Pacific Americans,” Phil Yu reported Sunday for his Angry Asian Man site.
- “LeBron James bypassed college and headed directly to the NBA, where he has earned millions,” Brian Lowry wrote Monday for CNN. “That makes him an intriguing vehicle to produce ‘Student Athlete,’ a stinging rebuke of collegiate athletics and the organizing NCAA, amid his rapid expansion off the court as a producer and performer. The feature-length HBO documentary, which premieres Oct. 2, uses a variety of athletes and coaches to methodically build its case — beginning with the assertion that the phrase ‘student athlete’ is, as basketball-player-turned-analyst Jalen Rose proclaims, ‘an oxymoron.’ . . .”
- “CBS Evening News” anchor Jeff Glor again used the inaccurate phrase “America’s worst mass shooting” Monday to describe the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting in Las Vegas in which 58 people were killed. The phrase ignores mass killings of African Americans and Native Americans in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Concidentally, DeNeen L. Brown wrote Friday in the Washington Post about the attacks on blacks in Tulsa, Okla. “For two days beginning May 31, 1921, the mob set fire to hundreds of black-owned businesses and homes in Greenwood. More than 300 black people were killed. . . .” Shaun King column
- “The United States has earmarked more than $1 billion to combat disinformation, propaganda and countering the spread of terrorism ideologies online, the Department of State has said,” Nicholas Ibekwe reported Thursday for Nigeria’s Premium Times. “Jonathan Henick, the acting deputy coordinator of the Global Engagement Centre (GEC), told a group of international journalists on Wednesday at the Foreign Press Centre in Washington DC that the US government has decided to redouble its efforts towards thwarting the spread of disinformation.”
- “A neo-Nazi activist who sent out hostile and abusive robocalls aimed at top politicians and others has been linked to threats to the publisher of a small local newspaper that first exposed his activities,” Jason Wilson reported Friday for the Guardian. “Scott Rhodes, who lives in Sandpoint, Idaho, was first identified by the Sandpoint Reader and linked with a campaign that targeted high-profile political races across the US and even murder victims with racist and antisemitic robocalls. . . . Wilson also wrote, “When Rhodes was asked about the call by the Guardian via email, he sent a link to a YouTube video that reproduced the robocall audio, and featured video of a large stack of copies of the Sandpoint Reader being set on fire. . . .”
- Citing the case of Vernon Madison, a mentally incompetent black man on death row in Alabama whose case is before the Supreme Court, syndicated columnist George Will Sunday came out against the death penalty. “Conservatives have their own standards, including this one: The state — government— already is altogether too full of itself, and investing it with the power to inflict death on anyone exacerbates its sense of majesty and delusions of adequacy,” Will wrote.
- “Arbitrary detentions and the cancellation and withholding of passports belonging to two high-profile Venezuelan journalists helped to mark September as another month in a long period of aggressions against the press in the country,” Teresa Mioli and Paola Nalvarte reported Wednesday for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. “Twenty-five journalists have been arbitrarily detained in 2018, according to Mariengracia Chirinos of Venezuela’s Press and Society Institute. . . .”
- In Brazil, radio owner and commentator Sandoval Braga “62, was shot in the leg on September 21 in what the police described as a ‘cold and calculated’ attempt to stop him speaking out about political issues in and around Jaguaruana, a city of around 32,000 people in northeastern Brazil . . .,” the Committee to Protect Journalists reported Sept. 25. “Two masked raiders barged into the studio’s garage at around 3:40 p.m. as Braga was closing the door, the journalist told CPJ in a telephone interview from his hospital bed. They forced Braga to lie on the ground, while at least two accomplices waited outside in a car. One of the attackers shot Braga in the leg, and said, ‘This is so you keep quiet and stop talking garbage on the radio,’ Braga said. . . .”
- “Media rights groups are furious at the arrest of a Somali journalist accused by a regional government of spreading false news,” Saad Muse reported Friday for Centre for African Journalists (CAJ) News Africa, “the continent’s premier newswire and press release distributor.” “Broadcast journalist, Mohamed Abdiwali Tohow, has been detained following a report in which he alleged the militant group Al-Shabaab was regrouping in parts of the state of Galmudug. The journalist had not been charged despite his arrest about a week ago. . . .”
- “Journalist Nina Lakhani, a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK, faces a campaign of intimidation following her coverage of a notorious murder trial in Honduras . . .” the International Federation of Journalists reported Wednesday. “Nina Lakhani is a freelance investigative journalist who has been reporting on Latin American stories for the last five years. Based in Mexico, Lakhani moved to Tegucigalpa to report on the murder of Honduran indigenous activist leader Berta Caceres, killed in March 2016 after opposing a hydroelectric dam project on the Gualcarque River, an area considered by indigenous communities as sacred. . . . After publishing her second article on the case, where she reported on the criminal structure that is being protected by Honduran judicial system, Lakhani was subject to a smear campaign that accuses her of participating in violent and drug-trafficking activities. . . .”
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