Eliza Barclay
- Trip:
- Fellows Fall 2007
- Affiliation during program:
- Freelance Print, Mexico City
- Country:
- Tanzania & Kenya
- Year:
- 2007
- Email:
- elizabarclay@gmail.com
Eliza Barclay is a writer, multimedia producer, and photojournalist. Currently based in Washington, DC, she frequently travels to Latin America and East Africa to report on a range of issues including public health, the environment, immigration, economic development and food. For three years she was based in Mexico City, first as a correspondent for United Press International and then as a freelancer. She has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic News, The Lancet and many other publications. In addition to the IRP, she has received fellowships from the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting, and the EcoHealth prize from the World Federation of Science Journalists. She was shortlisted for the 2009 Amnesty International Media Award for human rights reporting in the new media category. She has also trained and mentored African journalists on covering HIV/AIDS with the media development organization Internews. Her recent work can be found at www.elizabarclay.com.
Stories
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Trade-Offs: Is China the Key to Africa’s Development?
Arusha, Tanzania - Inside a dark shop opposite a frenetic bus station, transistor radios are stacked beneath newfangled LED flashlights and belts hang like snakes from the ...
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A New Approach to an Old Disease
Kenya - Charles Kimando, a doctor in Kenya, has long been frustrated with his limited arsenal of drugs to treat malaria. The parasitic disease makes its appearance after heavy ...
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Climate Change Fueling Malaria in Kenya, Experts Say
Tumutumu, Kenya - Esther Njoki lay on a slender cot in the women's ward of Tumutumu Hospital, lucid for the first time in days after being ambushed by fever and delirium. The ...
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Charity vs. Capitalism in Africa
Jenifa John recently spent $1 on a billowy swath of gauze that could help keep her family alive. The 22-year-old mother of two in the village of Engutoto, Tanzania, bought a ...
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China Spurring Illegal Timber Trade in Tanzania
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - China's growing hunger for timber may wipe out much of Tanzania's commercially valuable forests in two decades, scientists warn. The Asian powerhouse is ...
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African fishermen find way of conservation in the Koran
Pemba, Zanzibar - For years, Salim Haji was told by government officials and international groups that his methods of fishing were destroying the coral and weren't sustainable. ...
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