Reuters Newsmaker event - Keeping the Spotlight on HIV-AIDS

Media coverage of HIV/AIDS – and how to keep the pandemic in the news spotlight despite compassion fatigue – was the theme of a lively Reuters Foundation ‘Newsmaker’ panel discussion in the Auditorium on Wednesday night. 

Reuters video has produced an edited version of the debate.

Veteran media commentator and broadcaster Ray Snoddy chaired the session before almost 100 invited guests.  Other panellists were Peter Tatchell, the gay rights activist, and journalists Andrew Jack (FT), Shereen El Feki (Al Jazeera International), Bernard Tabaire (Uganda Sunday Monitor), and Sean Maguire (Reuters General News Editor, EMEA). Some of the questions came from a group of 14 journalists from Africa, Asia and South America brought to London for the Foundation’s annual week-long “Reporting HIV/AIDS” workshop.

This is the fourth workshop of its type that Reuters Foundation has organised since 2003.  Courses were held in Cape Town in 2003, Rio de Janeiro in 2004 and New York in 2005.

On the run up to World Aids Day on 1st December, journalists who have taken Reuters Foundation AIDS reporting courses have written stories on the subject that were commissioned by AlertNet.  Here are the links to the stories:

http://members.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/116490531730.htm

http://members.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/116471389385.htm

http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/116480166516.htm

http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/116490792966.htm