Arrested development: Zimbabwean journalism
The following seminars will take place at 1pm. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required
Award-winning Zimbabwean journalist, documentary maker and Nieman fellow Hopewell Chin’ono was arrested twice in 2020: first on charges of inciting violence after reporting how government officials were profiting from deals to secure Covid-19 supplies, and again for sending a tweet that “impaired the dignity” of Zimbabwe’s Chief Justice. For these crimes, he spent six weeks in an overcrowded jail cell in Harare – an injustice that inspired the viral hashtag #ZimbabweanLivesMatter. He joins us on the 3rd February to speak about press freedom in Zimbabwe, and the role of journalists in exposing corruption.
Date: 3 February 2021, 13:00 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Hilary 2021)
Venue: Online Seminar
Speaker: Hopewell Chin’ono
Organising department: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Organiser contact email address: reuters.institute@politics.ox.ac.uk
Part of: REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7wM28Nl7TQWEuZvngVcfTA
Booking email: reuters.institute@politics.ox.ac.uk
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Louise Allcock