Glenna Gordon and Jina Moore look at Liberia's efforts to restore law and justice -- for victims of sexual violence, for communities in conflict and for the nation as a whole.
Liberia: Local journalists pick up investigation
Published January 15, 2010
Jina Moore, for the Pulitzer Center
When Glenna Gordon and I started digging into a pretty incredible legal scandal, we knew it would get people riled up. What we didn't know is whether the brouhaha stirred by our report would have any real effect.
Seems like it did, in some ways. Our Foreignpolicy.com article, about a former minister of justice who claims to own the copyright to the Liberian law, has lawyers, businessmen and others buzzing in Liberia, or so we're told.
But one of our favorite outcomes is this article, by a Liberian journalist for the Daily Observer. Granted, it has some errors -- it gets some of the information it attributes to our article just plain wrong, and it kind of lets the former minister off the hook without much of a fight -- but frankly, we were delighted to see local journalists pick up the trail.
On February 27, Jina Moore was interviewed for the Washington Journal program on C-SPAN about her reporting on Africa's land issues for the
Reproduced with permission from The Christian Science Monitor.
Grantee
Jina Moore is an independent journalist who specializes in post-conflict and human rights reporting. The recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and of an Ochberg Fellowship with the Dart Center for...
