麻豆传媒 and Journalists for Human Rights Working Together In Africa
CTV National News Chief Anchor and Senior Editor Lisa LaFlamme travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo to work with Journalists For Human Rights (JHR), a Canadian-based media development organization that helps train reporters in the developing world.
Now, 麻豆传媒 is sending more journalists to Africa to work with JHR in countries where a free press is just emerging.
February 2014: CTV Vancouver Managing Editor Ethan Faber was in Sierra Leone, a country emerging from the darkness of a 10-year civil war.
January 2015: CTV Atlantic reporter Kayla Hounsell is currently on assignment in South Sudan.
Kayla Hounsell in South Sudan
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Kayla Hounsell blogs from South Sudan, where she visited Citizen Television (CTV) and gets a picture of the immense pressure put on the few staff they have to work with to put on a newscast.
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My final destination is Juba, South Sudan, population 300,000. It鈥檚 a part of the world about which most of us know very little, so first some simple stats on South Sudan.
Latest blogs from Ethan Faber in Sierra Leone
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A text message arrived from 11,000 kilometres away in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital city, reminding CTV's Ethan Faber of the dire problems in a country where sickness and death is a way of life.
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CTV's Ethan Faber on how the technology we take for granted eased a Sierra Leone mother's 20-year torment in minutes.
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CTV鈥檚 Ethan Faber reports on the children of Sierra Leone who are living with disabilities in a country that promises basic rights, but doesn鈥檛 seem to deliver.
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CTV's Ethan Faber reports on the heartbreaking stories of Sierra Leone's broken health care system, stories that shine a light on a crisis that continues to claim countless lives despite bold promises of action.
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An unforgettable 45-minute conversation reveals Sierra Leone's troubled past and points the way to a better future.
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Landing at Sierra Leone鈥檚 international airport and the chaotic journey into the capital city gives new arrivals an early introduction to the kind of inconvenience and lack of infrastructure citizens endure every day, an issue local journalists are now beginning to take on.
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The challenge of Sierra Leone and the journalists who tell its stories to see past the civil war that ended in 2002.
Lisa LaFlamme's posts on Congo
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A remarkable group of Grade 8 students learn about child soldiers and slave labour in the coltan mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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As I pack for tomorrow's departure from this hostile corner of central Africa, I realize I am taking home so much more than I came with. I leave with some wisdom passed on from the journalists I've worked with this week, from the brave young Congolese reporters who are under a daily threat of violence, who don't miss a day of work even though their pay sometimes doesn't come for months.
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No matter how much advanced planning is done logistically, there is no way to predict what will happen, editorially, when you show up to cover a story - particularly one as fluid as a sprawling refugee camp spilling well beyond its front gate. Today the goal was to "job shadow" five young local reporters through a Journalists for Human Rights project here in Goma, DR Congo.
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In this media environment in Goma, DR Congo, there is safety in numbers. Usually when a journalist is threatened (or worse) by authorities, it goes unreported. A united front, they hope, will breed confidence in exposing the widespread abuse and suppression.
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There are 10 journalists in the world I wish I could get to know better. I would have liked to have dinner with them, but for security reasons, they had to go. They are women in Goma, DR Congo.
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Performers at Kinshasa's Marabout Theatre laid out the history of the Congo. For Africa's third-largest country, it's bleak. There's unpredictable tribal rivalry, a greedy legacy of colonialism, the constant temptation of corruption and a record of sexual violence that is off the charts.
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CTV's sprawling studio off Toronto's Highway 401 doesn't have a swimming pool or pet monkeys, we don't have portraits of our Prime Minister on every wall either. At the largest television network in DR Congo all of these things are in full view, the proud trappings of a fledgling enterprise called Tele Cinquante.
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The airport arrival in Kinshasa went smoothly enough -- a 15-minute grilling by the immigration officer when he saw my visa stamped "journalist鈥: what was I doing here, who did I work for, where was I staying? With a lineup forming behind me, he eventually nodded me through.
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This trip is important to me because when journalists are threatened and bullied, anywhere, it is personal for all of us. You can't have democracy without a free press and you can't have a free press without democracy.