1. Today at 14:00 we are welcoming award-winning journalist @lagipoiva for our #RISJseminars series. She will share her experience of reporting on the measles and the coronavirus in the Pacific Islands.
✏️ Sign up here zoom.us/meeting/regist…
🧶More on the speaker in this thread
2. @lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson was the first Samoan to be a @risj_oxford Journalist Fellow. She started her career in journalism at the age of 18 and became the first woman to lead a newspaper in Samoa in 2006. She's received many awards for her work reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/cherell…
3. As part of her Fellowship, @lagipoiva published this paper on reporting climate change in the Pacific Islands. Her homeland is one of the most exposed to the threat of rising sea levels, storm surges and heavier rainfall
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/our-research/s…
4. @lagipoiva has recently reported on a measles outbreak in her native Samoa. In January the unprecedented health crisis had claimed 83 lives. This piece she published at @guardian looks into what went wrong
theguardian.com/world/2019/dec…
5. @lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson is now the Visiting Global Associate, Editor in Chief of the Journalism Initiative on Gender-Based Violence at the Center for Women’s Global Leadership of @RutgersU at New Brunswick. Here you can find her recent work sites.rutgers.edu/lagipoiva-cher…
6. In March @lagipoiva published this piece on patient rights in the age of #COVIDー19.
"Social media and easy access to public information should not give way to harmful journalistic practices"
sites.rutgers.edu/lagipoiva-cher…
7. We hope you can join us TODAY for @lagipoiva's seminar at 14:00 UK time.
As usual, the event will be chaired by @MeeraSelva1, Director of our Journalist Fellowship Programme.
✏️Sign up in this link
zoom.us/meeting/regist…
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.