Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters - Paperback

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.