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Prue Clarke is a Murrow award winning reporter specializing in Africa. Prue has exposed Ghana's child slave trade and corruption in the mining industry. She has reported from war-torn eastern Congo and covered the Aids crisis in Rwanda and Uganda. Prue reported the historic election of Africa's first woman president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and has continued to cover her efforts to rebuild Liberia.
Prue's work appears on public radio in the US and Canada and in the Times of London, Canada's Globe and Mail and the Australian newspapers.
Prue was previously a reporter with the Financial Times and a correspondent with ABC TV in Sydney and New York.
Prue is the founder of New Narratives, a project training women journalists in Africa. She teaches journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York and consults to the Open Society. She has masters degrees in International Affairs and Journalism from Columbia University. |
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(US public radio , 4/9/2009)
*THIS STORY WON A NATIONAL EDWARD R. MURROW AWARD AND A GABRIEL*
In Liberia, most of the population is illiterate or semi-literate and can't read a newspaper, and radio and TV stations were all but destroyed in a long civil war. Thousands depend on a very rudimentary news outlet -- a man who writes
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(US public radio, 11/1/2008)
This week a court in Niger issued a groundbreaking ruling against slavery. Child slavery is still practiced in Niger and other developing countries, despite its illegal status. The Niger court blamed the government for failing to protect the rights of a woman who was sold into slavery as a child and
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(US public radio , 3/30/2008)
In Uganda, a growing number of grandmothers now raise their grandchildren. AIDS has wiped out the generation in-between. Some are so destitute, they don’t even qualify for micro-loans from traditional banks -- loans designed to help people lift themselves out of poverty. Reporter Pru
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(US public radio , 3/2/2008)
The aborigines of Australia date back 50,000 years. But their culture and language are slowly disappearing in remote communities riddled by alcoholism, violence, and child abuse. To preserve the aboriginal culture, half-a-dozen Australian business leaders have provided upfront money while the aborigi
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(US public radio , 2/24/2008)
When the government of Ghana dropped its requirement for school fees two-years ago, 600,000 more children flooded the public school system. But families living on a dollar-a-day still find it hard to send their children to school. They can’t afford to pay for books, uniforms, or even lunch. Re
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(Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 11/1/2007)
Sympathy for boat people tends to ebb and flow like the tides that carry them. In Australia in recent years, the tide has been way out.
Refugees caught trying to sneak into Oz are sent to an island a thousand miles offshore, where they're someone else's problem.
In was a winner for prime minist
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(US public radio , 7/10/2007)
Tourism is critical to the economy of the Indonesian island of Bali. Most of the people on Bali depend on tourism to make a living. But bombing incidents over the last five years have wrecked the tourism business. Hotels sit empty, beaches are vacant, and many businesses have gone under. Prue Clarke
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(US public radio , 6/1/2007)
On special occasions, the people of Uganda used to wear clothing made from tree bark. Ugandan royalty wore it all the time. But the influence of Western fashions and a growing business in second-hand clothing has taken a toll. Most everyone now wears clothing made of cotton or some other fabric. Repo
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(US public radio, 3/3/2007)
50-year old Beatrice Gakuba was born in Rwanda but schooled in Paris and Washington, D.C. When her father died in 2004, she returned to Rwanda and launched a rose growing business. It hires 200 people and ships a million roses a week to Europe. In the process it helps employees pay school fees, gain
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("The World" BBC/PRI, 2/15/2007)
A former child soldier from Sierra Leone has written a vivid, first-person account of fighting in his country's civil war in the early 1990s. The book, "A Long Way Gone - Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" - was released on February 15th, 2007. The author is 26-year-old Ishmael Beah. Prue Clarke caught up wit
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(US radio, 1/21/2007)
It’s been one-year since Harvard-educated Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became the first woman ever elected president of an African country. The problems she faces in rebuilding Liberia are monumental. Fourteen years of civil war left 200,000 people dead and a million more displaced. Johnson-Sirleaf restored
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(US Radio, 1/7/2007)
Two years after a devastating tsunami ripped into Aceh province in northern Sumatra, reporter Prue Clarke returns to that southeast Asian island to find motorized rickshaw drivers working together to rebuild their lives and their business. They’re pooling their money to make sure everyone gets back o
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(CBC Radio, 12/21/2006)
It’s a country created by freed American slaves in the early 19th Century – though only about five percent of current Liberians are descendants of these former slaves.
Nevertheless, it was a friendly port for U.S. interests and its merchant ships’ flags of convenience, until it was plunged into a
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(CBC Radio, 12/7/2006)
The Democratic Republic of Congo actually named a democratically- elected President this week, the first in more than 40 years.
But he presides over an uncertain peace in a phantom state with no real central authority.
And its vast resources remain a constant temptation to those who would plung
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(CBC Radio, 9/11/2006)
We turn to Ghana now, the gold producer many African states would like to become, though it's seen its share of shoddy foreign corporate behavior.
Since the government opened the country up to foreign investors mining has taken off.
But the collapse of Canadian-owned Bonte Gold two years ago le
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(US radio, 8/1/2006)
Hundreds of thousands of children in the Congo have been left without parents because of the civil war. As part of our occasional feature “In Their Own Words”, we’ll hear from one of them. We met this boy at a school for orphans in eastern Congo.
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(US radio , 7/15/2006)
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is filled with natural resources, including gemstones, minerals and oil. But the country’s abundant underground wealth has also helped fuel a long-running civil war. Rebels and government soldiers often fought to gain control of diamond and gold mines, so they cou
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(US Radio, 7/10/2006)
At the end of the month, the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo will go to the polls to elect a new president. It's the first time in more than four decades they'll choose their own leader. But this vast central African nation is still recovering from a civil war that left four million people
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(US Radio, 5/31/2006)
Liberia has recently emerged from civil war and elected Africa’s first woman president. One of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s first official acts was to sign a law criminalizing all rapes. Up until then, only gang rape had been illegal. During the war, as many as 700-thousand women and girls are thought to
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(CBC Radio , 5/11/2006)
Reconciliation is hard to come by when you've been a victim of the horrors of war, and maybe even committed a few.
But that's the goal two former child soldiers have set themselves in Liberia, and they're doing it through the medium of radio.
Not so long ago they would have cheerfully slaughter
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(US Radio/CBC, 2/12/2006)
*THIS STORY WON THE UNITED NATIONS GOLD MEDAL, BEST NEWS FEATURE AT THE NEW YORK FESTIVALS AND A GRACIE ALLEN AWARD
In the west African country of Ghana, the enslavement of people is officially banned. But thousands of children continue to be sold into bondage. They labor in the fishing villages alo
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(US Radio/CBC Radio, 10/8/2005)
Liberian refugees are returning home to participate in this week's historic presidential elections. This is the first time voters there have been to the polls after 14 years of civil war. Prue Clarke reports from Liberia on two of the leading candidates: a popular soccer star, and a Harvard-educated
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(ABC, PM, 10/1/2005)
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(Canada's Globe and Mail, 1/16/2007)
MONROVIA -- As the sun went down on a recent public holiday in the Liberian capital, young people poured onto the streets to mingle and flirt in the glow of yellow street lights.
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(The Times of London, 1/12/2007)
As the sun went down on a recent public holiday, young Liberians poured on to the capital’s streets to mingle and flirt in the glow of yellow street lights.
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(The Globe and Mail, Canada, 10/22/2005)
On a muddy street in a slum in Liberia's capital, small boys in torn clothes kick a pink plastic ball and dream of life as an international soccer star. It's no mere fantasy for these boys. It was on this very street that a young George Weah had the same dream before he become one of the game's great
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(The Australian, 9/10/2005)
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(The Times of London, 7/30/2005)
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(The Times of London, 11/3/2004)
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(Business Review Weekly, 5/6/2004)
The impending float of the internet search engine is unusual and exciting, but some investors can sense a bubble reinflating.
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(Business Review Weekly, 4/1/2004)
Media mogul John Malone could be planning to abandon America. But much rests on his rival, Rupert Murdoch.
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(Business Review Weekly, 3/25/2004)
Despite the Free Trade deal, Australians hoping to work in the US have got the rough end of domestic politics
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| Work Info |
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Expertise |
| Correspondent |
14 Years |
| Reporter |
14 Years |
| radio correspondent |
11 Years |
Specialty |
| Business (general) |
10 Years |
| Food |
6 Years |
| International |
14 Years |
Total Media Industry Experience
14 Years |
Media Client List (# assignments
last 2 yrs)
CBC Radio Canada (11+), US public radio (11+), The Times (London) (6-10), The Globe and Mail (Canada) (3-5) |
Other Work History
The Financial Times
*writer, New York bureau 2001-2003
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
*New York television correspondent 2003-2004
*Network television news correspondent Sydney and Central Australia 1997-2000
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Computer Skills
Word, Excel, Windows 2000, 98, XP, |
Technical Skills
audio editing - adobe audition, cool edit, protools |
Equipment
laptop with audio editing software, marantz pmd 660 flash recorder, mics including sennheiser k6 shotgun condensor mic, omni directional mics, digital and SLR cameras |
Foreign Language Skills
Basic French |
Work Permits & Visas
Citizen of the US, Ireland and Australia |
References
Robert Thomson, Editor-in-Chief, The Wall Street Journal
Max Uechtritz, former head of ABC and Nine Network News
Evan Cornog, Associate Dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |
Awards
Gabriel Award for Short Feature - National Release 2009
Edward R. Murrow Award for Feature Reporting - "The Daily Talk" 2009
Gracie Allen award for Hard News Report, 2007
Gabriel awards - Certificate of Merit, 2007
Gold Medal, Best Investigative Report, the New York Festivals 2006
United Nations Gold Medal, New York Festivals, 2006
Cabot Scholarship, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York, 2000 |
Associations
The Association of Independents in Radio |
Other
*Master's degree in International Affairs, University of Sydney
*International Fellow at Columbia University Graduate School of International Affairs
*Master's degree in Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
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Freelancer Availability
I freelance full-time. I live near New York, NY. I am willing to travel anywhere. I have a driver's license. I have access to a car. |
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