There are 5,000 refugees fleeing the North African country, Eritrea, every month. It is the second biggest refugee crisis after Syria, but their stories rarely reach the world’s press. Reporters Without Borders have called Eritrea a “blackhole of information”, ranking its press freedom the worst in the world for the past eight years. Investigative
Gary Younge delivers “brilliant, depressing and important” Cameron Memorial speech
Gary Younge’s Cameron Memorial speech was described as fascinating, powerful and important on Twitter, following the event. Mr Younge (Newspaper Journalism, 1993) delivered his speech, “Democratic Imbalance: Who Decides What’s News”, at City on 22 February. It focussed on the media’s underreporting of ethnic minorities, and on our desensitisation to