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Author Biography: Jenny Vaughan

Jenny Vaughan is jhr’s Overseas Program Coordinator, stationed in Accra, Ghana. With a masters degree in journalism and a B.A. in African Studies, Jenny has found her footing with this position. Last year, Jenny spent three months working for a national newspaper in Kampala, Uganda, which cemented her obsession with media and convinced her to return to the continent—this time to west Africa. Though she spends most of her time in Ghana, she travels frequently to Malawi, Liberia and Sierra Leone to oversee our programs and to act as the face of jhr in Africa. Keep track of Jenny’s travels here on Field Notes, where her work appears regularly along with blogs, pictures and videos from jhr’s interns and journalism trainers on the ground in Africa.

jhr connects journalists, NGOs in Ghana

In Ghana, Jenny's Dispatches,
by Jenny Vaughan March 4, 2011
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Text by Jenny Vaughan, video by Robin Pierro On any given day in Ghana, most papers are splashed with salacious headlines about the country’s latest political scandals. Drama dominates the news here and unfortunately, crucial human rights stories rarely make it to the front page. This is in part because journalists in the country don’t [...]

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A note from Sierra Leone

In Jenny's Dispatches, Sierra Leone,
by Jenny Vaughan February 10, 2011
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With two journalism trainers in place, jhr kicks off the new year in Salone with a flurry of activities planned for 2011 By Jenny Vaughan “This is a place that’s full of potential,” says jhr country director Stephen Douglas as we walk through a rugged, hollow building that used to house Sierra Leone’s state-run broadcster [...]

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Meet our new interns in Ghana and Malawi

In Ghana, IYIP Educational Officer, IYIP Rights Media Internships, Malawi,
by Jenny Vaughan February 8, 2011
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In January 2011, Journalists for Human Rights sent 10 Canadian journalists to Ghana and Malawi, where they will spend the next six months working with local journalists in newsrooms and schools to produce stories about human rights. In addition to creating human rights media, our journalists will be chronicling their exploits for jhr’s blog, Field [...]

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The Death of Newspapers, Africa-style

In Jenny's Dispatches, Malawi,
by Jenny Vaughan July 25, 2010
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Well before I left for Ghana in June, I was tired of all the talk of all the talk of the death of newspapers in Canada. As a young journalist, I was disheartened to be working in an environment where so many of my colleagues were consumed with predicting the death of our profession. It [...]

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Media Matters

In Jenny's Dispatches,
by Jenny Vaughan June 11, 2010
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Having finally reached Ghana last Saturday, I was eager to sink my teeth into the local media here in Accra. What I discovered is that the press here is as powerful, far-reaching and robust in Ghana as I expected based on my time working as reporter in Uganda last year. Journalism matters here, and people [...]

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Goodbye Canada, hello Africa!

In Jenny's Dispatches,
by Jenny Vaughan May 31, 2010
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This blog post will be decidedly less glamorous than the posts to follow, which I will be writing from sweaty internet cafes in Ghana, Malawi,  and, eventually, Liberia. Nonetheless, I’d like to introduce myself here, and explain why I’m lucky enough to get the opportunity to travel to all those countries. I am jhr’s new [...]

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