Friday, May 26, 2006
Why Malaria? Why Africa? Why Tanzania? Why Now?
By Bryan Monroe, NABJ President
Imagine: You are sitting in the
TV report: Syan in Africa
Friday, May 26, 2006
Syan Rhodes, reporter and anchor at WMC-TV in Memphis, files the first of several broadcast reports for her viewers back in Tennessee. Click here to see the full video (Requires Windows Media Player).
Tanzania: A journey in pictures
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Atlanta Journal-Constitution photojournalist Keith Hadley, one of the ten members of the NABJ delegation to East Africa, has compiled a multimedia look at the NABJ journey to Tanzania and Zanzibar,
Last working day in Tanzania
Friday, May 12, 2006
DAR ES SALAAM — On another rainy day the group loaded up on our bus to see the U.S. ambassador to Tanzania, Michael Retzer. We wanted to get his insight on the malaria crisis. The newly rebuilt
NABJ: Still speaking truth to power
Thursday, May 11, 2006
ZANZIBAR — NABJ has a long and proud history of no presidential drive-by visits to its convention. If a president of the United States is uncomfortable taking questions from its members, the
Jambiani! Malaria, Bye Bye!
Thursday, May 11, 2006
ZANZIBAR — Zanzibar, which lies just a few dozen miles off the coast of Tanzania, has a rich and storied which goes back nearly a thousand years. Malaria, the silent killer which the President of
Sambasha’s wonder plant
Wednesday, May 10 2006
ARUSHA — Wednesday was the most diverse and interesting so far of the malaria tour. The day featured a combination of field visits and briefings. In the morning, we observed the growing of a new
Inside Arusha’s malaria ward
Tuesday, May 9 2006
ARUSHA — In the malaria ward at Arumeru Hospital a mother and at least one of her children lay on each of the dozen beds. White mosquito nets hanging over each of the beds were covered with bugs,
Expert: ‘Nobody cares about poor black babies in Africa’
Tuesday, May 9, 2006
(Today’s blog entry is by Ervin Dyer of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:)
I was up Monday morning, dragging my tired butt and aching back down to breakfast at the Peacock hotel. The fried eggs were
On the radio: Malaria briefing
Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Bob Butler of CBS Radio files the first of several reports from Tanzania to KCBS Radio in San Francisco, highlighting discussions Monday morning with the Tanzanian Deputy Minister for Sport and
Settling in: The first night
Sunday, May 7, 2006
Jambo! Greetings from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania! This is NABJ/UN Fellow Syan Rhodes, anchor/reporter for WMC-TV in Memphis. It’s 10:30 p.m. (TZ time) and I’ve been charged with writing today’s/
On the ground in Tanzania
Sunday, May 7, 2006
After nearly 24 hours of travel time — a 14 1/2 flight from JFK to Dubai, two hours on the ground, and then another five hours flying to Dar es Salaam — the NABJ delegation has arrived in Tanzania.
Meeting with Gambari
Friday, May 5, 2006
Before leaving for Tanzania, the NABJ delegation on Friday met with UN Under-Secretary-General Prof. Ibrahim A. Gambari, head of the UN Department of Political Affairs, reporting to Secretary-
The group
Friday, May 5, 2006
NABJ President Bryan Monroe will lead the group, departing on the nine-day trip May 6 from New York to Tanzania. The other journalists in the delegation include: John Yearwood, NABJ Treasurer &
Orientation at the UN
Friday, May 5, 2006
On Friday, the group had a full day of orientation and press briefings on malaria, Tanzania and cultural and political issues in the region. One of the key topics centered around the prevention of
Ten NABJ members traveled to Tanzania in Eastern Africa, part of a media delegation visiting the region to cover malaria, HIV/AIDS and other issues of health in Africa. The trip honors the memory of NABJ member Akilah Amapindi, a young student who had been working on the Student Radio Project and died of malaria at the 2005 NABJ Convention in Atlanta.
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