Special Report: A Radio Jock (Mading Ng’or) Tests Freedom’s Limits in New Nation
In a country where most people get their news not from the Internet, newspapers or television but from the radio, Mading Ngor is about as big as journalists get. The 29-year-old radioman is decidedly not impartial. But his brash, crusading reports and interviews on Bakhita Radio are required listening for politicians and the public alike. In the fourth installment of a series about the world’s newest nation, Reuters offers a profile of one of South Sudan’s best knows journalists. South Sudan is a lot freer for the press than Sudan. But even edgy journalists like Ngor are still figuring out how far the media can go.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/12/us-south-sudan-radio-idUSBRE86B08Y20120712
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