Alagi Yorro Jallow

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Alagi Yorro Jallow (* 20th century in Sankwia , Lower River, Gambia) is a Gambian journalist , author , editor-in-chief and publisher .

Life

Jallow has been a journalist since 1987 and worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation in the late 1990s . 1999 helped found a new Gambian newspaper, The Independent . He was co-owner and managing editor of the newspaper, with Baba Galleh Jallow initially working as editor-in-chief.

The Independent was very critical of the Yahya Jammeh government from the start and was suppressed by the government almost immediately. Its editors and journalists have been jailed many times. Jallow was arrested by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) after an article was published in July 2000 reporting a hunger strike at Mile 2 Central Prison . Jallow was subsequently arrested and harassed several times. Jallow and the new editor-in-chief, Abdoulie Sey , received death threats in January 2003; there was an arson attack on his offices in October 2003, believed to have been committed by the Green Boys ; and another arson attack was organized this time by soldiers of the Gambia National Army in April 2004. After Deyda Hydara was assassinated in December 2004, Jallow fled to the United States , where he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University before becoming a lecturer at Assumption University in Thailand. In 2008 he completed his master's degree in public administration and politics.

Since beginning his journalistic career in 1987, Jallow also worked as a correspondent for the International Press Institute and as a consultant for the London-based organization for freedom of expression Article 19 . Jallow continues to write about the media suppression by the Jammeh government. Meanwhile, the government finally closed The Independent's offices in March 2006 after the newspaper falsely stated that a former Home Secretary, Samba D. Bah , had been arrested (a namesake had actually been arrested) following the failed Ndure coup. In 2013 his publication Delayed Democracy: How Press Freedom Collapsed was published in Gambia .

Memberships

For four years he was vice chairman of the Gambia Press Union (GPU), where he was involved in a successful campaign to disband a government-controlled media commission with extensive powers to punish journalists.

Awards and honors

  • 2000 - Winner of the Hellman Hammett Prize
  • 2004 - Hellman Hammett Prize Winner
  • 2004 - Second place in the Golden Pen of Freedom Award .
  • 2005 - Winner of the international press freedom award "Canadian Journalists for Free Expression International Press Freedom Award"
  • 2007 - Nieman scholarship holder
  • 2008 - Edward Mason's Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government in Public Policy
  • Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, DC and Bingham Fellow

Publications

  • Delayed democracy: how press freedom collapsed in the Gambia: a proposition for research in the Gambian journalism history 1965–2013 . Bloomington, IN 2013, ISBN 978-1-4918-0662-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d David Perfect: Historical dictionary of the Gambia . Fifth ed. Lanham, Maryland, ISBN 978-1-4422-6522-6 , pp. 220 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Alagi Yorro Jallow: Nieman Reports - Murder, Threats, Fires and Intimidation in Gambia. In: harvard.edu. 2010, archived from the original on March 28, 2010 ; accessed on July 12, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Alagi Yorro Jallow - Hilaris SRL. In: hilarispublisher.com. Retrieved July 13, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Alagi Yorro Jallow, Gambia. In: cjfe.org. CJFE - Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, accessed July 12, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Nieman Foundation Announces US and International Fellows for 2006–2007. In: harvard.edu. Nieman Foundation, accessed July 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Jallow, Alagi Yorro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jallow, Alagi Yorro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian journalist, author, editor-in-chief and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Sankwia