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Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters
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by William Finnegan, William FineganWilliam Finnegan
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Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors whofearing government disapprovalmay 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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ISBN-13: | 9780520089792 |
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Publisher: | University of California Press |
Publication date: | 07/12/1995 |
Edition description: | First Edition, With a new epilogue |
Pages: | 262 |
Product dimensions: | 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.70(d) |
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.
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