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CORRESPONDENTS
AFRICA
CÔTE D'IVOIRE & SENEGAL (WEST AND CENTRAL
AFRICAN PRESS): Baba Doudou
Doudou is based in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. He has served as the West
African Correspondent for French and German radio stations, as the
BBC correspondent in Cote d'Ivoire, and as Cote d'Ivoire's Regional
Information Officer for the International Federation of Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies.
GHANA: George Sarpong.
Sarpong is an Accra-based journalist and professor of journalism.
He also heads an NGO and works for Ghana's National Reconciliation
Commission.
KENYA & TANZANIA (EAST AFRICAN PRESS):
Daniel Teng'o
Teng'o is based in Nairobi. He has written for both print and electronic
media outlets throughout East Africa.
UGANDA: James Okanya
Okanya is based in Kampala. He has served as an Information Specialist
at the U.S. Embassy in Kampala, where, among other things, he handled
the local and international press after the massacre of tourists in
Bwindi National Park in Western Uganda. He has also worked as a reporter
and political editor at Uganda Times (now The New Vision).
He holds a masters degree in International Relations and Diplomatic
Studies and specializes in political affairs, media, human rights,
democracy, and governance.
ZIMBABWE: Julius Dawu
Dawu is a veteran Zimbabwean journalist based in Bulawayo.
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AMERICAS
ARGENTINA: Alfred Hopkins
Hopkins has lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, since 1973. In addition
to his 25 years as a WPR correspondent, Hopkins has worked
as a freelance writer, a translator, an English teacher, and an actor.
He currently holds workshops on acting, storytelling, diction, and
journalism.
BRAZIL: Kenneth Rapoza
Rapoza divides his time between Massachusetts and Parana, Brazil.
He writes original news for World Press Review's Web
site and has been a freelancer for The Boston Globe for six
years. He also covers Brazil regularly as a freelancer for The
Washington Times and The Sun Sentinel of South Florida.
His articles on the country have appeared in The Nation and
he is often called upon as a radio guest to discuss Brazil, including
"The Brian Lehrer Show" on WNYC in New York and Pacifica
Radio broadcasts.
CHILE: Tim Frasca
Frasca has lived in Chile for 20 years. He has been a correspondent
for National Public Radio, The Independent, The Christian
Science Monitor—and has written for almost 100 other media
outlets. He also headed Chile's first AIDS project.
COLOMBIA: Carmen Ospina
Ospina was born in Colombia and is now based in New York. Ospina is
the book review editor at CRITICAS magazine.
CUBA: Nick Miroff
Miroff works for the U.S.-based organization Global Exchange and has
made frequent appearances on National Public Radio.
GUYANA AND THE CARIBBEAN: Denis Scott
Chabrol
Chabrol is based in Guyana. He is a journalist for the BBC Caribbean
Service and Agence France Presse.
PERU: Lucien Chauvin
Chauvin has lived in Peru for the last 13 years. In addition to his
more than 10 years of work for WPR, Chauvin has covered Peruvian
affairs for The Miami Herald, Time magazine, and The
Washington Post.
VENEZUELA: Sammy Eppel
Eppel is a journalist who covers politics and economics in the local
Venezuelan press.
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ASIA/PACIFIC
AUSTRALIA: Charles Stokes
Stokes is based in New South Wales. A WPR correspondent since
1975, he has also worked as a writer and editor for numerous major
publications in both Australia and the U.K., has taught journalism
at the university level throughout Australia and Southeast Asia, has
trained established journalists in developing countries, and has appeared
frequently—as both interviewer and interviewee—on national radio and
television programs.
CHINA: Ting Chinqi
Ting Chinqi is based in Jiangsu. He is a professor of English language
and literature at Southern Yangtze University, has published numerous
papers on Irish fiction and poetry, and has translated two novels
and numerous stories by Irish writers into Chinese. He has been a
WPR correspondent since 1981.
CHINA: Xiong Lei
Xiong Lei is based in Beijing. She is a journalist for China Features
News Agency.
INDIA: Sadananda Mukherjee
Mukherjee is based in New Delhi. He has worked for U.S. News and
World Report, Jane's Defense Weekly, To the Point International,
and El Pais.
INDONESIA: Muhammad Qodari
Based in Jakarta, Qodari works for the Department of Politics and
Social Change, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
in Jakarta, where he specializes in Indonesian politics and Islam.
NEPAL: Tilak Pokhrel
Pokhrel is based in Kathmandu. He is a news desk coordinator for The
Kathmandu Post, where he previously worked as a reporter.
PAKISTAN: Jamal Yousuf
A journalist with over 18 years of experience, Yousuf is based in
Karachi. He was, most recently, city editor for Pakistan's English-daily
The News.
PHILIPPINES: Marites Sison
Sison is based in Manila. She began her career in journalism shortly
after the People Power uprising in the Philippines in 1986 and has
covered a wide range of beats (the Philippine presidency, foreign
affairs, environment, social issues). A recipient of several awards
for investigative journalism in the Philippines, she recently co-authored
the book Guardian of Memory, The Life and Times of Dean Armando
J. Malay, Journalist and Human Rights Activist.
SRI LANKA: Anuradha Herath
Herath is available to speak about the ongoing peace negotiations
between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE. Herath has worked
for Sri Lankan magazines and newspapers, as a radio presenter, as
a television news anchor, and for the official Web site of the Sri
Lankan government. She covered the recent ceasefire agreement between
the LTTE and the government, and continues to write for Sri Lankan
publications from her new base in Louisiana.
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EUROPE
BALKANS: Katarina Subasic
Subasic, based in Belgrade, has covered the Kosovo conflict, the NATO
air war, and Milosevic's arrest. Formerly a senior political writer
for one of Yugoslavia's independent news agencies, Subasic has reported
on major stories from across the FRY. She has also served as a radio
journalist and, in this capacity, interviewed Bosnian President Alija
Izetbegovic and Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic.
BULGARIA: Plamen Petrov
Petrov is based in Sofia. He has edited and reported for Democratsia,
Standart News, Otechestven Front, and Bulgarian News
Agency. He is also the founder and chairman of the board of EUROEKRAN,
an NGO devoted to the promotion of European cinema in Bulgaria.
FRANCE: Brent Gregston
Gregston is based in Paris and writes for Salon.com and The Sunday
Telegraph. He holds a degree in international relations and is
available to speak on current events in France, Franco-U.S. relations,
France's Muslim community, and the French economy.
GREECE: Spiros Rizopoulos
Rizopoulos is based in Athens. He has been interviewed by such print
media outlets as The New York Times, Time magazine,
The Christian Science Monitor, Kathimerini, Eleftherotypia,
To Vima, Isotimia, Express, Oikonomikos,
and Tahidromos. He has also appeared on U.S. and Greek TV and
radio stations including CNN, Antenna, Alpha, Alter, NET, and Flash
radio. Rizopoulos provides strategic planning and communications advice
and lectures widely at academic institutions.
HUNGARY: David Koch
Koch monitors the Hungarian press from his base in Connecticut.
IRELAND: Denis Fitzgerald
Born in New York, raised in Ireland, and now based in London, Fitzgerald
has lived, worked, or studied at various times in Paris, New York,
and New Delhi. He has worked for Bloomberg News, The Indian Express,
and Euromoney magazine and is a member of the National Union
for Journalists, London Freelance Branch.
POLAND: Leszek Pawlowicz
Pawlowicz has served as Warsaw bureau chief for CBS News, as a producer
for ABC news, and as a commentator for Radio Free Europe and Voice
of America.
SCOTLAND: Barry Shelby
Shelby is an experienced freelance journalist based in Glasgow.
SPAIN: Carmen Font
Font, based in Barcelona, is a journalist and literary translator
with years of experience in the local and international press.
TURKEY: Nilay Karaelmas
Karaelmas is based in Ankara. A journalist with more than 20 years
experience, Karaelmas has worked as a stringer for the Voice of America
in Ankara, as a Turkey consultant for the Committee to Protect Journalists,
as the United Nations correspondent for Turkey's Anatolia News Agency,
and as a freelance journalist. She recently wrote an op-ed on Turkey's
reaction to the Iraq war in New York's Newsday.
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MIDDLE EAST
LEBANON: Abeer El Gazzawi
El Gazzawi is an experienced freelance journalist based in Beirut.
ARAB PRESS: Peter Valenti
Valenti monitors the Arabic-language press. He has lived in Amman,
Jordan, and currently teaches a course on Near Eastern Civilizations
at New York University. He gives frequent radio interviews on the
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