Frontline Blog: Why Rob Crilly is moving on from Kenya
July 2nd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Freelance, Press freedom and ethics
Journalist Rob Crilly has been based in Kenya for five years and he’s decided it’s time for a change. In this post he takes an honest look at his work: has he started to run out of ideas?
Tags: East Africa, Kenya, rob crilly“Every year there are warnings of famine in Ethiopia. Every two years there is drought in north-eastern Kenya. And Somalia is on a constant slide into the abyss. Eventually the wide-eyed reporter becomes tired and jaded. (I had always been cynical, but that’s a different story.) It’s a gradual process that takes place unnoticed over years.”
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