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Author Biography: Jessica McDiarmid

Jessica McDiarmid graduated from the University of King's College in 2007. Prior to joining jhr, she worked in various news outlets, including the Hamilton Spectator and the Canadian Press. She has also had numerous other occupations, including waitress, aquarist, receptionist and kindergarten classroom assistant. She is stationed in Accra, Ghana.

Getting a Goat in Ghana

In Ghana, IYIP Rights Media Internships,
by Jessica McDiarmid August 17, 2010

I wasn’t sure why none of the half-dozen taxis driving by would do. It was early Sunday morning and the street near my house was teeming as usual, neighbours calling out to each other, goats and chickens and children dodging cars and trucks and tro-tros that careened along the narrow, pot-holed roadway. Finally an appropriate [...]

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How to Get Blood From a Stone

In Ghana, IYIP Rights Media Internships,
by Jessica McDiarmid August 5, 2010

My colleague looked at me like I had rocks in my head. We had just spent five days traipsing around leprosariums. We had interviewed at least a dozen former leprosy patients about their struggles to survive and gathered comments from their advocates that packed a fair punch at the government’s lack of support for some [...]

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Shine a Light: Journalism as a Tool for Social Change

In Ghana, IYIP Rights Media Internships,
by Jessica McDiarmid August 2, 2010
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Father Andrew Campbell shakes hands with former leprosy patients on TV as often as he can. Nearly a household name, the Irish-born priest has been working with leprosy patients in Ghana for decades. One of his many tasks is public education, trying to teach people that they need not be afraid of former leprosy patients, [...]

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‘Chimps,’ Charges and Machine Guns: The Rough and Tumble of Ghana’s Free Press

In Ghana, IYIP Rights Media Internships,
by Jessica McDiarmid July 22, 2010

If you open a newspaper on a sweltering morning in Ghana’s bustling capital, you will find scintillating tales of political intrigue, graphic photos of lives gruesomely cut short, scathing editorials trashing the governing party, the opposition and everything in between. Some mornings, you might even find naked women spread-eagle on a centerfold with their most-nether [...]

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On the Road in Sierra Leone

In IYIP Rights Media Internships, Sierra Leone,
by Jessica McDiarmid January 22, 2010

 The sky was just beginning to lighten as the roar of a motorcycle drew near. Moments later, there was a light tap at the door. “He’s here,” said the young man who runs a guesthouse in the diamond-studded eastern Sierra Leonean town of Kenema. Out on the street, motorcycle driver Abraham Bungara balanced my [...]

Tagged as: motorcycles, roadtrip, Sierra Leone

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