Dateline Soweto - Travels With Black South African Reporters

"Documents better than most a particularly complicated and historically significant relationship of journalism to politics."—Chandra Mukerji, coeditor of Rethinking Popular Culture

About the author

William Finnegan is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid and A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique, both published by California.

Summary

Documents the working lives of black South African reporters, caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harassment, and white editors who - fearing government disapproval - may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get.

Product details

• Authors: William Finegan, William Finnegan, Finnegan William
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.07.1995
• EAN: 9780520089792
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08979-2
• No. of pages: 262
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Press & journalism, Republic of South Africa, Literary essays, News media and journalism