Author: Kate Bartlett
2019 WPI Fellow
Bio: Kate Bartlett is a Zimbabwean-born journalist who was reported from Cambodia, Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Congo, and Bosnia among other places. She started her career at The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh, then went to Agence France Presse as an Asia editor, and is currently Southern and East Africa correspondent for Deutsche Presse Agentur, the German press agency.
Twitter: @bartlettkate
The country is in a crisis. Dysfunctional healthcare system after government fired doctors. Women giving birth in medieval conditions in backyard āclinicsā. Hyperinflation looming. Unlit & potholed roads. What does Zimbabweās Cabinet do? Announces a long list of new road names.
Jean-Paul Marat was famously assassinated while annotating newspapers in a bathtub, where he was soaking to help his mysterious skin disease. Are his bloodstained newspapers a clue to what afflicted him? @sarahzhang on a new DNA study: https://t.co/1Kkxz7T2Mq
Posts by Kate Bartlett:
How I met the Mooch
I had a run-in with āthe Moochā recently. I spoke to former White House adviser Anthony Scaramucci outside an event of his in Austin, Texas, and, um, it got a bit awkward. When he learned I was from South Africa, the Mooch said sarcastically that he supposed things...
Out with the old, in with the… news?
The first newsroom I worked in had rats, and Iām not just speaking about the bosses. It was in an old two-story shophouse in Phnom Penh, and we frequently saw vermin in the kitchen. The computers were out of the 1980s and the walls were stained. On humid, rainy...
Mayor Pete and gay rights in America
When a little-known politician named BarackĀ Obama first announced he was running for president I didnāt think heĀ stoodĀ a chance.Ā Ā āSadly,Ā Americans will never vote for a black president,ā I told my friends. I hadnāt spent any real time in the United States back then...
When lies trump truth – the press should call them by their name
Legacy U.S. newspapers like The New York Times and The Washington Post are using unprecedented language in their political copy with words like ālieā and āracistā. āWeād never used the word ālieā before we had Trump,ā Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York...
We are happy to announce the selection of the 2019 World Press Institute (WPI) fellows! Read more about the 2019 WPI Fellows and view their photos here: https://t.co/PEepuQI8Lu
Happy Holidays from WPI! If you are a foreign journalist looking to immerse yourself in the governance, politics, business, media, journalistic ethics and culture of the US, we are now accepting applications for our 2019 fellowship program: https://t.co/UuT18UAzyw.