Audrey Brown (journalist)

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Audrey Brown is a South African broadcast journalist.

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Early life and education

Brown was born in Kliptown, a suburb of Soweto. [1] She could smell the distant teargas on the day of the Soweto uprising, when she was eight or nine years old, and grew up in a family who were involved in the struggle against apartheid. [2] She has a degree in journalism, African history and politics from Rhodes University and a master's degree in journalism from University of Wales, and has studied film criticism and documentary film making at the Ateliers Varan in Paris. [3] [1]

Career

In the late 1980s and early 1990s Brown worked on South African newspapers Vrye Weekblad and Weekly Mail . [3] Early in her career she interviewed Nelson Mandela on Robben Island. [2]

Brown hosts the BBC World Service 'sFocus on Africa podcast, [4] and has presented BBC Radio 4's Pick of the Week . [5]

She was one of the judges for the 2020 Caine Prize, awarded for a short story by an African writer. [3]

She was one of the women featured in the book 200 Women: Who will change the way you see the world by Geoff Blackwell and Ruth Hobday (2017, Chronicle Books: ISBN   9781452166582). [1]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "BBC Reporter Recalls Connection To Nelson Mandela". WUNC. 9 December 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
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