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
Major news in South Africa. Journalists on edge waiting to see if President Cyril Ramaphosa will resign - or be impeached- after allegations of misconduct.
Today is #WorldAIDSDay. South Africa has the biggest number of people living with HIV. Young women and teenage girls in Africa now account for a massive 63% of new infections. I spoke to a former sex worker with HIV about her personal story. https://www.voanews.com/a/african-women-and-girls-most-at-risk-of-hiv-/6856622.html
At look at Chinese attempts to influence South Africa's media. And how, with a few notable exceptions, South African media is highly resilient to such efforts. https://www.voanews.com/a/study-south-africa-resilient-to-chinese-attempts-to-influence-media-/6856758.html
Posts by Kate Bartlett:
How I met the Mooch
I had a run-in with ”the Mooch” 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 I’m 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 Barack Obama first announced he was running for president I didn’t think he stood a chance. “Sadly, Americans will never vote for a black president,” I told my friends. I hadn’t 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 “lie” and “racist”. “We’d never used the word ‘lie’ before we had Trump,” Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York...
Looking ahead to the 2023 #WPIFellowship, one of the program themes will be #ClimateChange.
These findings from @risj_oxford are very interesting.
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