by William Finnegan (Author)
Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who-fearing government disapproval-may 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.
Front Jacket
Documents better than most a particularly complicated and historically significant relationship of journalism to politics.--Chandra Mukerji, coeditor of Rethinking Popular Culture
Author Biography
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.
Number of Pages: 262
Dimensions: 0.66 x 7.9 x 5.29 IN
Publication Date: July 12, 1995
