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Author Biography: Philippa Croome

Philippa has taken her love of newspapers from j-school in Toronto, to conflict-zone reporting on a military exercise in Wainwright, Alta., to the National Post, to her current home at the Daily Times in Blantyre, Malawi.

Decentralization in Case of Emergency

In IYIP Rights Media Internships, Malawi,
by Philippa Croome August 18, 2010

If the World Bank calls decentralization a “fashionable” term in development circles, then Malawi must be its Marc Jacobs. The term is everywhere – especially so since its third run at the process when cabinet approved the policy in 1996. Funding is allotted to districts and their respective assemblies, but how that plays out when [...]

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A Layered Rule of Law

In IYIP Rights Media Internships, Malawi,
by Philippa Croome August 10, 2010
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A case to dominate Malawi’s media of late: expatriate couple, Dean and Hallen Van Schalhwal, allegedly set their five dogs loose on their Malawian guard, Cephas Chimdima. The 72-year-old man was severely disfigured, losing a nose, ear lobe and lower lip to the attack. Both national newspapers The Daily Times and The Nation, reported Chimdima [...]

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The Rural Rub

In IYIP Rights Media Internships, Malawi,
by Philippa Croome August 4, 2010
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There are 16 villages in the area of Nancholi in Malawi and the nearest hospital is nearly 14 kilometers away. For 12-year-old Beatrice Chiwaya, it has meant a day’s round trip each month from her rural village of Chimire to the nearest one – Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi. It’s the same trip she’s [...]

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Not a Culture of Numbers

In IYIP Rights Media Internships, Malawi,
by Philippa Croome July 29, 2010
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Daily Times features editor Clifton Kawanga: In Malawi, journalists need to fight for the right to stats A visit to the local police station last week turned into a lesson in numbers. I was working with another reporter on a crime story – another drinking-related death in the area was just one of the briefs [...]

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Time running out?

In IYIP Rights Media Internships, Malawi,
by Philippa Croome July 20, 2010

Oh, elections. Back home, they seem to pop up more often than not. Voter turnout is low, apathy even worse. But we don’t doubt that every however often, they’ll happen. Here in Malawi, it’s been a decade since the last local elections. And after the scheduled May election was once again bumped to November 23, [...]

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