LONDON, Mar. 28 – The Guardian appoints new correspondents within the Caribbean, South America, Africa and the UK, boosting its protection of underreported communities
The brand new editorial roles type a part of the Scott Belief Legacies of Enslavement programme, marking one 12 months because the publication of its report into the Guardian’s historic hyperlinks with transatlantic slavery
The Guardian has immediately introduced 5 new roles, together with its first-ever Caribbean correspondent, a South America correspondent, two Africa correspondents and a brand new UK well being and inequalities correspondent, offering Guardian readers all over the world with extra devoted information, skilled evaluation and unique options from every of those areas.
- Natricia Duncan turns into the Guardian’s first-ever Caribbean correspondent primarily based in Jamaica. Natricia has written for nationwide media in her native St Vincent and the Grenadines, together with Searchlight SVG, and later for the Voice and the Guardian within the UK on immigration and race equality points. She has additionally labored as a communications strategist on the Commonwealth Secretariat, supporting political missions within the Caribbean and Africa and managing a Commonwealth-wide community of younger correspondents.
- Tiago Rogero joins as South America correspondent primarily based in Brazil. Tiago created the Querino Mission podcast, which received Brazil’s most vital journalistic award in human rights, the Vladimir Herzog, final 12 months. He was beforehand inventive supervisor at Rádio Novelo and a reporter at O Globo, O Estado de S. Paulo and BandNews FM. Tiago additionally created and hosted the narrative podcasts Vidas Negras and Negra Voz, specializing in Afro-Brazilian life.
- Eromo Egbejule is the Guardian’s new West Africa correspondent primarily based in Ivory Coast. Eromo has served as Africa editor at Al Jazeera English, main a community of freelancers throughout the continent to ship protection of a number of elections and conflicts, profiles on arts and sports activities, and collection on intra-Africa migration and identification. He was beforehand West Africa correspondent and editor on the Africa Report and has written for the Guardian.
- Carlos Mureithi is the Guardian’s new East Africa correspondent primarily based in Kenya. Carlos joins from the Related Press the place he’s Africa local weather and atmosphere correspondent. His earlier roles embrace East Africa correspondent at Quartz, East Africa editor on the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Mission and Africa correspondent at The Christian Science Monitor. His work has additionally been printed by Reuters, Al Jazeera and The New York Instances.
- Tobi Thomas is the Guardian’s new UK well being and inequalities correspondent. She was awarded the Scott Belief bursary in 2019 and has beforehand labored as a information reporter and information journalist.
All 4 worldwide correspondents will be part of the Guardian within the coming months, with Tobi Thomas already in submit within the UK. The information follows the appointments of Adria Walker and Melissa Hellmann to Guardian US’s race and fairness workforce on the finish of final 12 months. The brand new roles are a part of the Scott Belief Legacies of Enslavement programme and can strengthen the general goals by reporting on beforehand underreported areas and communities. Recruitment is ongoing for a Manchester-based neighborhood affairs correspondent to broaden the Guardian’s reporting of race within the north west and past.
Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief, Guardian Information & Media, says:
“The response to the Scott Belief’s findings final March was a watershed second for the Guardian. The long-term dedication set out within the restorative justice plan is important in our ongoing efforts to handle these historic wrongs and to report extra deeply on the lives and experiences of individuals of color all over the world. Our new Caribbean, South America and Africa correspondents will cowl the pressing tales and points affecting communities in these areas immediately, and with a depth and breadth not often seen within the western media.”
Natricia Duncan, the Guardian’s first-ever Caribbean correspondent, says:
“Coming from a small island within the Caribbean, I perceive the significance of giving voice to those that really feel marginalised and invisible. Regardless of its wealthy cultural tapestry, dynamic leaders and complicated environmental and socio-economic challenges, the area is commonly misunderstood, misrepresented, or ignored by international media. It’s a nice privilege to be a part of the Guardian’s historic transfer to make sure the Caribbean will get the protection it deserves.”
Cotton Capital, the Guardian’s journalism collection on how transatlantic slavery formed the Guardian, Manchester, Britain and the world, will publish new tales within the weeks forward. This consists of new Guardian documentary Buried, which explores the invention of an enormous burial floor on the island of St Helena – one of the important traces of the transatlantic slave commerce on the earth – in addition to tales exploring memorialisation and tradition within the Sea Islands and Jamaica.
The Scott Belief has additionally appointed three extra members to its exterior advisory panel who meet quarterly to information the restorative programme of labor, specializing in descendant communities from areas of the world that had been most impacted. The brand new members are:
- Antonia Canal. Antonia is the Programme & Engagement Supervisor on the Individuals’s Historical past Museum and has sturdy networks with grassroot neighborhood organisations throughout the north west of the UK by way of her roles at varied cultural establishments.
- Michael Allen. Michael previously labored for the Nationwide Park Service in South Carolina for over 37 years, together with as Govt Director for The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Hall. He was additionally a founding Board Member of the Worldwide African American Museum (IAAM).
- Naketa West. Naketa is a world mission administration skilled with over 15 years expertise in human and social improvement. She is at the moment a Mission Coordinator at The Belief for the Americas.
They be part of beforehand introduced advisory panel members Dr. Cassandra Gooptar, Professor Keith Magee, Professor Olivette Otele and Professor Matthew Smith.
Ebony Riddell Bamber, programme director, the Scott Belief legacies of enslavement programme, says:
“I’m thrilled to welcome Antonia, Michael and Naketa to the exterior advisory panel who will assist oversee our long-term programme of restorative justice. The main target for the interval forward is to hold out additional engagement with descendant communities and start to develop concrete choices for partnerships, in addition to persevering with to work carefully with the Scott Belief, our advisory panel, and connecting with different organisations and establishments advancing restorative and reparative justice efforts.”
Over the previous 12 months, The Guardian Basis has efficiently expanded its journalism coaching scheme to incorporate three additional bursaries reserved particularly for Black aspiring journalists within the UK and is now progressing its second cohort of purposes for 2024. Guardian Australia launched its first journalism cadetship aimed toward growing range within the newsroom, whereas the same scheme is at the moment in improvement with Guardian US.
Readers have described the Guardian’s response as ‘a vital step ahead’, with a particular webinar drawing practically 4,500 views and the British Journalism Awards noting how “few publications could be courageous sufficient to topic themselves to such scrutiny”, following a extremely recommended win for Cotton Capital within the social affairs, range & inclusion class.
For extra info on the mission, please go to the programme webpage or contact legacies@theguardian.com. For those who want to communicate with programme director
Ebony Riddell-Bamber for an interview, please contact media.enquiries@theguardian.com.
