African Reports Focus on Disease and Wildlife

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CBS’s 60 Min­utes has an “African prob­lem.” After being lam­bast­ed three weeks ago in a pub­lic let­ter to the orga­ni­za­tion, penned by Colum­bia School of Jour­nal­ism pro­fes­sor and for­mer New York Times reporter Howard French and signed by over 150 oth­er jour­nal­ists and pro­fes­sors, CBS is strug­gling to defend its cov­er­age of the Ebo­la out­break. The letter…

The idea that Africa is booming is hot and sexy

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News that Africa is boom­ing is going main­stream.  At least that is the point that is dis­cerned when major U.S. print and broad­cast­ing out­lets such as the Wash­ing­ton Post, New York Times, The Atlantic,  Chris­t­ian Sci­ence Mon­i­tor and NPR pick up on news of trans­for­ma­tion that is tak­ing place in con­ti­nen­tal Africa. These orga­ni­za­tions are devoting…