Episode 21: Samantha Asumadu, activist journalist and campaigner and founder of Media Diversified and Writers of Colour
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This week Oliver Freiberg meets crisis journalist, activist and campaigner Samantha Asumadu where they talk about activism, what inspired her, and her recent nomination to the long list of the prestigious Paul Foot Award, for investigative journalism.
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Chapters
1. Episode 21: Samantha Asumadu, activist journalist and campaigner and founder of Media Diversified and Writers of Colour (00:00:00)
2. Samantha's introduction to journalism (00:01:55)
3. Media Diversified (00:02:41)
4. #AllWhiteFrontPages (00:05:38)
5. Work on Prisons (00:07:57)
6. Bringing New Voices To Public (00:08:46)
7. Most Important News Story (00:09:43)
8. Racial Division in the Media (00:12:53)
9. Mainstream Feminism and the Media (00:15:05)
10. Solutions for Media and Reporting (00:21:41)
11. Award Nomination and Prison Reporting (00:23:36)
12. Movement of Decarceration and Fairer Justice System (00:27:52)
13. Current Movements (00:33:12)
14. Future Work (00:36:02)
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