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Black people 'less intelligent' scientist claims
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Michael Rubinstein Dec. 14, 2007.
SNAKES AGAIN!
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- I am a Kenyan print journalist currently working as a freelancer in Nairobi.
I would very much like to make contact with researchers and journalists working on health issues. Looking forward to a mutually beneficial professional interaction with all.
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Have you experienced this?
I am very new in health reporting and i must say i am very much surprised by the level of un-cooperativeness by healthcare workers and bureaucracy especially in public institutions and mostly by censorship.
Generally i have quickly discovered you cannot write anything negative about a health institution and no one will comment on negative happenings in the healthcare sector.
I thought there censorship was predominantly in political reporting but health reporting is shrouded in a lot of secrecy… Continue
Generally i have quickly discovered you cannot write anything negative about a health institution and no one will comment on negative happenings in the healthcare sector.
I thought there censorship was predominantly in political reporting but health reporting is shrouded in a lot of secrecy… Continue
Posted on March 28, 2008 at 12:15pm —
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we can coomunicate on line or through phone +2348023212881.
Names are Yusuf Wakili Yola.
I have not yet made it to Kenya, but I am planning of coming there briefly. Send me your cell phone so that I reach you when I get there.
Kind reagrds,
Marie
How are you? Its been a long time. I hope all's well.
Liz
Happy New Year.
How are you doing in Ethiopia? What are some of the challenges that you face as a journalist with respect to access to, and disseminating climate forecast information in Ethiopia and Africa in general. What kind of information are you working on? Who are the users? Who are the providers? Do both users and providers have the means (technology, technical support, information infrastructure etc.) that can facilitate information sharing among diverse stakeholders in development initiati
Regards,
Marie
Don't give up on critical (and also positive) reporting because of this - it is natural for institutions to be self-protective. They might welcom airong of the criticism in general terms withour specific reference to their particular organisation or people. As a journalist, you need to anchor articles in real situations, but you can do this by talking to patients and families, and without necessarily giving away too much of their personal details as well. Your editor should be checking that you have actually spoken to these people, and are basing your report on ground truth, but there is also an obligation to protect the identities of individuals in many situations.
Even with positive reporting, it might be better not to advertise identities, because then there could be a risk of pressure to act as a kind of PR agent, with ears that do not hear the real situation.
It is surely not easy to find a way. How can news be both useful and also able to attract attention. The key may be in the choice of subjects - issues that really matter to many people, for better or worse.
P.
Wow, sorry for the hugely long delay in replying--I am terrible at checking in to this site!
Yes, the article was published at:
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0040303
And then I was asked to discuss it on live national public radio!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15667128
Thanks again for your help,
Gavin
best wishes,
arvind
There are many feminist scholars such as Vadana Shiva and others whose scholarship draws our attention to the role women can play in environmental protection and biodiversity conservation. Shiva in "Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development" highlights the role women play in environmental conservation in India. In Kenya, for example, we have Professor, Wangari Mathia, the 2004 Nobel Peace Price winner whose work is well recognized globally. It is naive to generalize that women "mostly destroy the environment"
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