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William Finnegan
Dateline Soweto
Travels with Black South African Reporters
$26.95, £19.95 paperback
978-0-520-08979-2
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262 pages,
July 1995, Available worldwide
Categories: Media Studies; African Studies; Social Problems; Politics; African History
July 1995, Available worldwide
Categories: Media Studies; African Studies; Social Problems; Politics; African History
Free online edition (eScholarship)--available only to University of California faculty, staff, and students (List of public titles)
"Dateline Soweto neither sensationalizes nor patronizes. . . . Part of the book's richness is its usefulness as a primer for the interested but uninitiated, serving as a concrete, precise textbook of sorts, with drama, provocative ideas, new perspectives and rarely heard voices added."—Sheila Rule, New York Times Book Review
"Along with the story of how black journalists manage to function, Dateline Soweto is also a fascinating history of the South African press. . . . Finnegan deftly articulates the delicate status of black reporters working for the white press in two wonderful chapters [which] while dealing specifically with the situation of South African journalists, could well be required reading for their American counterparts."—Jill Nelson, Washington Post Book World
"Along with the story of how black journalists manage to function, Dateline Soweto is also a fascinating history of the South African press. . . . Finnegan deftly articulates the delicate status of black reporters working for the white press in two wonderful chapters [which] while dealing specifically with the situation of South African journalists, could well be required reading for their American counterparts."—Jill Nelson, Washington Post Book World
"Documents better than most a particularly complicated and historically significant relationship of journalism to politics."—Chandra Mukerji, coeditor of Rethinking Popular Culture
Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who—fearing government disapproval—may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited several of these reporters during the May 1994 election and describes their post-apartheid working experience in a new preface and epilogue.
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A Complicated War, by William Finnegan
American Carnival: Journalism under Siege in an Age of New Media, by Neil Henry
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