Kenya
Help Kenya’s leading news organization, The Nation, generate regular health coverage to stem the spread of killer diseases through better public policy. Launch first in-house health journalism training program to drive coverage at the flagship newspaper and serve as a model for training at The Nation and at sister publications elsewhere across Africa. Work with local health journalist association to link with colleagues across East Africa and the Continent. Explore new technologies to deliver health news such as health alerts via radio and cell phone.
Rachel Jones is an international journalism trainer and consultant based in Washington, DC. Jones’ consulting media-development work began with an eight month stint as project director for the Internews Network’s Gulu, Uganda, radio training center. The project was designed to build reporting and critical analysis skills of journalists covering the peace and reconciliation process between Uganda’s government and the Lord's Resistance Army. Jones helped train and mentor nearly five dozen media professionals, covering issues ranging from policy, health, education, and child welfare.
Prior to that, Jones spent eight years as a reporter for National Public Radio covering poverty, welfare reform, and social policy affecting children and families. During those eight years, Jones also conducted trainings on HIV/AIDS and education reporting for the Internews Network in Ethiopia and Nigeria.
Jones also has been a national correspondent for Knight-Ridder Newspapers, a feature writer and columnist for The Detroit Free Press and a reporter for The St. Petersburg Times. Among her numerous awards: In 1991, Jones was named the first Robert R. McCormick Minority Fellow in Urban Investigative Journalism for the Tribune Foundation. And in 2000, she received a Knight/CDC Journalism Fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.