Fellows & Editors
Mary Rose Madden
- Trip:
- Rwanda 2011
- Affiliation:
- WYPR-FM
- Country:
- Rwanda
- Year:
- 2011
Mary Rose Madden is a senior news producer and reporter for WYPR FM, a National Public Radio member station in Baltimore. At the local news desk, she assigns stories, organizes special coverage, edits news stories, develops series and reports. She has coordinated election coverage—including the 2008 presidential election—and written award-winning series such as “Growing Up Baltimore” and “Baltimore '68: The Fire Last Time.” She has covered stories from the foreclosure crisis to the horse-racing industry, from the alarming high school dropout problem in Baltimore to a traditional college marching band gone hip-hop. Before entering journalism, she worked in the social development of children and families and worked in a hospice providing support to families. She holds a B.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from Loyola University of Maryland.
Stories
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Rwanda Looks to Nature for Economic Growth
In Rwanda, April is a time for remembrance. Beginning on April 6, 1994, and continuing for the next three months, nearly a million people were killed in a genocide. Today, the final installment of...
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Censorship Looms Over Rwanda’s Future Journalists
Eighteen years ago, the pro-government radio station in Rwanda, RTLM, incited, encouraged, and organized Rwanda's Hutu ethnic group to find, hunt, and kill their Tutsi neighbors. It went so far as...
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Uneasy Tension: The Catholic Church’s History in Rwanda
Today we bring you the second part of our series, "Rwanda's Next Steps: A Generation Living in Genocide's Aftermath". In only 100 days between April and July 1994, 800,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsis and...
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A Generation Living in Genocide’s Aftermath: Sons of Survivors
In Rwanda, April is a time of remembrance, a time of collective mourning for the 1994 genocide. Some 800,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsis, were killed in a deadly rampage that lasted 100 days. Every Friday this...
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Rwanda’s Next Steps
WYPR's Mary Rose Madden went to Rwanda with the International Reporting Project for two weeks in November 2011. Throughout their travels, they went to the country's capital, Kigali, and into the...
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Rwanda’s Next Steps in Photographs
WYPR's Mary Rose Madden traveled to Rwanda on an IRP Gatekeeper Editors trip in 2011.
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