One World Fellows 2005
Read below to find out more
about the One World Media Fellows from 2005. You can also see a
list of the hosts in 2005, who met
with the Fellows and helped organise various site visits and sessions.
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Lungi Daweti,
Channel Africa,
South Africa
Lungi had worked for the ANC's Radio Freedom in Tanzania and Ethiopia, aimed at mobilising South Africans and the international community in isolating the
Apartheid government. In 2005 he was heading up the programmes department
for Channel Africa, a multi-lingual international public broadcaster.
One year on:
"I have learnt more about the media world in
the UK and how my organization can benefit from it. I have also been
able to establish working relations with other fellows, some of whom I
still intend using as our correspondents, particularly from Kenya and
Ghana."
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Narendra Puppala,
Eenadu Television, India
Narendra joined
ETV, one of
India’s largest television networks, as a senior
reporter in 1998. Fluent in four Indian languages, Narendra was reporting
extensively from Bangalore as well
as from further afield. As a member of the ETV Secretariat, an
organisational think tank, he is involved in designing and implementing
policies and processes that enhance output quality and efficiency.
He used the experiences he learned in the UK to work on strategies and
building core teams for his organisation. He also worked on training and
planning for the 12 regional channels of his organisation which broadcast in 6 languages.
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Matilda Asante,
Joy FM, Ghana
Matilda joined JOY FM as a Broadcast journalist in 1999 before rising to Head of Business Desk and Deputy News Editor in
2004. She anchored the major news bulletin ‘Midday News’ and produced the
evening news analysis programme ‘Newsnight’. Her quest
for accountability earned her the reputation of being one of the
toughest interviewers in Ghana.
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Elizabeth Bennett,
Nationwide News Network, Jamaica
Liz started out as a reporter for KLAS radio in 1995. She
went on to work as a Producer for various radio stations in Jamaica before
taking up the role of Chief Producer and Managing Editor of
the Nationwide News Network, a news and current affairs body which provides
content to both radio and television stations in Kingston. She also anchored the
news programme ‘World at Noon’, and was an executive member of the
Press Association of Jamaica.
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Betty Dindi,
Nation Media Group, Kenya
Betty first joined Nation TV
as a pioneer reporter when it was launched in 1999 and played a key
role in the shaping of Nation TV news. In her role as
Production Editor, she produced ‘Countdown 2002’, a political feature
series that ranked performance of members of parliament in their
constituencies ahead of the Kenya’s general election in 2002. Betty was also a member of the Association of
Media Women in Kenya representing the needs of young women journalists.
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Grace Mutandwa,
British Embassy,
Zimbabwe
In 2005 Grace
was working as a Press &
Publicity Officer for the British Embassy in Harare. As one of the
few remaining independent journalists left in the country she was
determined to keep informed of the latest broadcasting developments in
anticipation of a time when there would no longer be restrictions to open
media reporting in Zimbabwe. Grace had co-authored books as well as
produced several children's television programmes and development
documentaries. As Arts Editor of the local financial weekly, The Financial
Gazette, she started a weekly social column focusing on various topical
issues. Grace was also the Director of Streets Ahead, a social welfare organisation
helping children living on the streets.
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Asif Raoufi,
RTA, Afghanistan
Mohammad Asif Raoufi joined Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) as a radio reporter in
1996 against a backdrop of increasing restrictions on press freedom, and
the legacy of the Taliban regime in assuring Afghanistan’s exclusion from
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