Fellows & Editors
Jina Moore
- Trip:
- New Media Fellows 2013
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Rwanda
- Year:
- 2013
- Find me on:
Jina Moore is a freelance foreign correspondent who covers Africa for print, radio and the Web. Based in New York, Moore is a regular contributor to the Christian Science Monitor. Her work has also appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review, Foreign Policy, Boston Review, the Boston Globe, The Nation, Utne Reader, Glamour magazine and Harvard magazine, among others. Her work has been broadcast on PRI's “The World” and on “World Vision Report.” Her first human rights journalism, about American doctors who treat torture survivors and evaluate their claims for asylum, was anthologized in Best American Science Writing. Moore is also a nonfiction editor at Guernica magazine, editorial director of The Dart Society and editor of its online human rights magazine, Dart Society Reports. She was a 2009 Ochberg Fellow of the Dart Center on Journalism and Trauma. Moore’s work has taken her to 15 African countries, where she has reported on politics, culture, health, justice and development, especially in post-conflict settings. Her work has won numerous awards, including the Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize Gold Medal, the Sidney Award from the Hillman Foundation, and multiple awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors; and has been supported by a Fulbright Fellowship, four Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting fellowships, and the New York University Reporting Award.
Stories
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Hearing (New) Voices
Sue Schardt wants to mess with your mind. Specifically, she wants to mess with how you think about public media. A public radio veteran, Schardt is the executive director of the ...;
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“The Square” Resists the Usual Characters
Over the years, I’ve had occasion to spend enough time with people who get reported about to hear this complaint: “We’re not characters. We’re people....
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In Republic of Congo, a Revolution in Maternal Health
At first glance, Central University Hospital in Brazzaville looks like so many other hospitals in so many other African capitals – home to dimly lit waiting rooms and dirty floors. But inside...
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Covering AIDS in South Africa
[View the story "Covering AIDS in South Africa" on Storify]
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Some Surprising Facts about FGM in New UNICEF Study
UNICEF today released a thorough report on female genital mutilation/cutting, which includes deep dives into data sets, methodology and social theory -- there's a whole section that considers what a ...
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AIDS: How South Africa Is Beating the Epidemic
{image-1} When Olga Thimbela first took in the kids, things were rosy. They were young. So was she, for that matter. She had two children of her own, and six more she...
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Sunday in a South African Township 2
I came to Tshepisong to meet Olga. When she had only two children herself, and she was only 30 years old, Olga began her life as a foster mother to AIDS orphans --...
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Translating Public Health into Media
It’s 10am, and we’re talking about death. Deaths from disease and neglect—deaths the world could prevent, if only for… Name the disease, and someone in...
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‘South African Violence’ Only Explains the Pistorius Case If He’s Not Guilty
There's a please-click-thru-six-screens cover story just published by TIME about the shooting, by track athlete Oscar Pistorius, of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius, if you don't know, is...
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A Preliminary PEPFAR Roundup
On Wednesday, the Congressionally-mandated evaluation of PEPFAR -- the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief -- was released. It's nearly 700 pages long, and I...
Blog Posts RSS
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October 11, 2013 | by Moore, Jina
The Real Issue With Africa and the ICC
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August 21, 2013 | by Moore, Jina
How Much Does Africa Spend on Health?
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August 20, 2013 | by Moore, Jina
Sick in Africa? Get Thee to a Cargo Container
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June 24, 2013 | by Moore, Jina
The News on AIDS in South Africa is Not What You Think
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June 18, 2013 | by Moore, Jina
Why This Rocks: J. Lester Feder on Same-Sex Marriage in South Africa
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