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...knows more about the Jonestown massacre than journalist Tim Reiterman. He began investigating Reverend Jim Jones, the twisted leader of the Peoples Temple cult, for the San Francisco Chronicle 18 months before Jones burst on the world's stage 30 years ago. Reiterman's articles caught the attention of Congressman Leo Ryan, who was concerned about constituents who had joined the group. Reiterman was one of a handful of journalists who accompanied the Congressman on a fact-finding mission to Jonestown, Guyana. On November 18, 1978, after meeting with Jones and his followers, their small party was ambushed by Peoples...
Save the poop jokes, because Rose George has heard them all. When the London-based journalist decided to write a book on human waste, toilets and the world sanitation crisis, she knew that she'd be the butt of a few jokes around the pub. What she didn't realize - at least not fully - was just how important her subject was. George's new book The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters delves into the taboo subject of bowel evacuation, with tact, sensitivity - and the right amount of style. Reporting on the sewers...
...decision believed to have caused many Canadians to view him as out of touch. “There was a feeling he hadn’t paid his dues,” said Andrew Cohen, an associate professor at Ottawa’s Carleton University and a prominent Canadian journalist. “Canadians knew him as a writer, a scholar, a polemicist, but they did not know him.” Cohen said Ignatieff’s image has improved since 2006, after two years spent as deputy leader of the party. “He?...
...think I say loudly what [others] think quietly," Alexis Sinduhije told an interviewer earlier this year. The activist and former journalist is one of Burundi's most prominent and controversial voices, the founder of his own political party with out-loud ambitions to run for the country's presidency in 2010. In the turbulent Great Lakes region of Africa, where chaotic Congo meets the former genocidal killing fields of Rwanda and Burundi, Sinduhije promised to be a proponent of ethnic reconciliation, a distinction recognized by TIME when it named him one of this year's 100 most influential people...
Sinduhije, who had been threatened, jailed and beaten during his career as a journalist, was taken into custody on Nov. 3. He was arrested at the headquarters of his party, the Movement for Security and Democracy (MSD), along with nearly 40 others, who have since been released. According to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) researcher who was present at the time of the arrests, police also searched Sinduhije's house the following day. The researcher reported that authorities said they suspected party members of "holding an illegal meeting" and "threatening state security." The current charge of "insulting" President Pierre Nkurunziza...