Even as Sudan enters the 4th year of devastating war, media coverage remains abysmal. We speak to two Sudanese journalists about why the deadliest conflict in the world has become the the casualty of today’s media attention economy.
Join Madhuri Sastry and Bhakti Shringarpure for a live recording of It’s Not You, It’s The Media with guests Ism’ail Kushkush and Raghdan Orsud.
Thursday, May 14th, 12pm New York, 6pm Khartoum.
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Isma’il Kushkush is a journalist who has contributed to the New York Times, the Washington Post, New York Review of Books, New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta, Guernica, Nieman Reports, Columbia Journalism Review, Smithsonian, The Nation, Associated Press and others. He was based in Khartoum, Sudan, for eight years, and has been acting bureau chief for the New York Times in East Africa. He was a Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and an Ida B. Wells Fellowship recipient with Type Investigations.
Raghdan Orsud is a digital ecosystems and media development specialist with 15+ years working at the intersection of technology, information integrity, and development programming. She’s built misinformation monitoring systems, designed digital initiatives for public-interest media, and advised organizations operating in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. As Co-founder of Beam Reports, she’s now channeling that expertise into building smarter tools for stronger information ecosystems.
Listen to previous episodes of It’s Not You, It’s The Media here: https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/s/its-not-you-its-the-media
Watch previous episodes of It’s Not You, It’s The Media here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstXMEF0r05bhdfv7yCt5V2KXTdK4cO5F