CTV News and Journalists for Human Rights Working Together In Africa
Last year, 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. In 2014, CTV News is sending three more of its journalists to Africa to work with JHR in countries where a free press is just emerging. For three weeks in February, CTV Vancouver Managing Editor Ethan Faber will be in Sierra Leone, a country emerging from the darkness of a ten year civil war. Internet connectivity and even basic electricity is unreliable in Sierra Leone, but when he can, Ethan will be filing updates on the assignment to this website. We invite you to follow along as CTV and JHR join forces to help journalists tell their stories in some of the most challenging places on earth.
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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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IN PICTURES
CTV Vancouver Managing Editor Ethan Faber has arrived in Sierra Leone, where he’s working with Journalists for Human Rights to share his skills with local reporters.
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IN PICTURES
CTV Vancouver Managing Editor Ethan Faber shares techniques while training local journalists in Sierra Leone.
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Landing at Sierra Leone’s 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.
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Three days of intense training at the JHR headquarters in Toronto, long-distance introductions and vaccinations against every disease under the sun mark the final preparations before departing to Sierra Leone on a mission to mentor young journalists in the developing world.
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In Sierra Leone, the future looks bright for the first time in a long time. In the 1990’s the small West African nation became known around the world for a civil war that claimed tens of thousands of lives, a war funded in part by so-called blood diamonds and often fought by child soldiers high on a mixture of cocaine and gunpowder. Soldiers frequently cut off the hands and feet of villagers in a campaign of terror that shocked the international community.
