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Author: Antigone Barton Created: 10/21/2008 11:22 AM
Antigone Barton is a Knight Health Journalism Fellow in Zambia.

A Shining Example
By Antigone Barton on 2/2/2010 2:19 AM
An award from the Minister of Health is just one prize for Daily Mail's malaria reporting, as journalists see rates of the disease drop.
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Two editors at the Zambia Daily Mail died on Christmas day
By Antigone Barton on 1/1/2010 3:44 PM
The deaths of two editors sadden colleagues and send a message.
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Thanksgiving and World AIDS Day an uneasy mix
By Antigone Barton on 12/3/2009 9:26 AM
When an American holiday falls days ahead of an international recognition of a plague that hits one in six people in Zambia, getting AIDS stories out is challenged.
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Researchers, journalists, artists come together
By Antigone Barton on 11/20/2009 8:54 AM
When a group with sometimes clashing styles spent three days in a hotel meeting room, the result was the beginning of a beautiful relationship.
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Where routines are challenged, health reporting abides
By Antigone Barton on 11/8/2009 3:17 AM
Fuel shortages, power failures and Internet outages hinder, but don't halt health reporting here.
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Zambia morning show airs the gospel of health reporting
By Antigone Barton on 10/20/2009 2:08 PM
I didn't think anyone would be watching when I agreed to talk about health reporting early on a Saturday morning talk show. But they were.
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Chief Macha wonders about ruts in road to health care
By Antigone Barton on 10/4/2009 10:26 AM
In a remote rural chiefdom, a traditional leader tracks news of American health care reform efforts . . .
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Bureau offers chance for in-depth look at health here
By Antigone Barton on 5/26/2009 6:56 AM
A trip to Ndola in Zambia's Copper Belt showed that journalists -- and their best opportunities -- share common ground on either side of the Atlantic
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Our news makes it in, theirs doesn't make it out
By Antigone Barton on 5/7/2009 2:49 PM
News of Michelle and Barack Obama's fist bump came to this village on the banks of the Lower Zambezi River, but the villagers stories of death and disaster for want of 20th century commodities are a harder sell.
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Why American newsrooms could use a Zambian journalism fellow
By Antigone Barton on 4/22/2009 1:30 PM
Francis Lungu, an editor for a Zambian current events show, and before that a reporter at a daily paper, knows the frustrations that come with deadline journalism. There was the time, recently, that a source tried to get him breaking news in time for the noon report of his show. But the Internet wasn't working. When that happens he runs out to the Internet cafe nearby. But this time, while he scrambled to get the data needed for the story, he got scooped.
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