Women, Action & the Media

Submitted by interdocserv@ya... on Sat, 03/28/2009 - 04:33.

I went to an interesting panel discussion tonight titled Women Reporting from the Global Frontlines. The event was part of the Women, Action & the Media Conference at MIT's Stata Center. One of the panelists was Peta Thornycroft, one of the few remaining independent journalist in Zimbabwe. She was jailed in 2002 by the Mugabe government for breaking a media censorship law. It was very interesting to listen to her, especially after last weeks Skype conversation between Chris and the ladies from the NGO in Harare. Thornycroft described the current crisis in Zimbabwe as a repetitive story of human rights abuses, government repression and a collapsed economy.