Dateline Soweto

Travels with Black South African Reporters

By: William Finnegan

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Paperback | 12 July 1995 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"Along with the story of how black journalists manage to function, "Dateline Soweto is also a fascinating history of the South African press. . . . Finnegan deftly articulates the delicate status of black reporters working for the white press in two wonderful chapters [which] while dealing specifically with the situation of South African journalists, could well be required reading for their American counterparts."--Jill Nelson, "Washington Post Book World

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Map of South Africa
Preface to the 1995 Edition
Acknowledgments
In KwaNdebele	p. 1
The Apartheid Press	p. 21
Gunfire and Jingles	p. 37
The Ghetto	p. 53
In Katlehong	p. 59
A Strenuous Profession	p. 71
Just Jon	p. 79
The Whiteness of the Star	p. 103
At the End of the Day, a Slippered Gentleman	p. 121
"We Are Black Before We Are Journalists"	p. 129
Abiding the Umlungu	p. 151
State of Emergency	p. 165
"They Are Playing Marbles with Our Country"	p. 185
Kidnappings, Bombs, and Dog Shows	p. 197
Back to KwaNdebele	p. 213
Epilogue to the 1995 Edition	p. 235
Index	p. 253
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.

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