Geoffrey Nyarota

Geoffrey Nyarota became the first Zimbabwean journalist to tackle official corruption when he exposed the Willowgate Scandal in 1988, resulting in a skirmish with President Mugabe. He was editor of The Chronicle, a state-owned daily from which he was summarily dismissed. In 1999 he became the founding editor-in-chief of The Daily News, which was banned in 2003. He was a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, and he has received nine international journalism awards...See more

Geoffrey Nyarota became the first Zimbabwean journalist to tackle official corruption when he exposed the Willowgate Scandal in 1988, resulting in a skirmish with President Mugabe. He was editor of The Chronicle, a state-owned daily from which he was summarily dismissed. In 1999 he became the founding editor-in-chief of The Daily News, which was banned in 2003. He was a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, and he has received nine international journalism awards, including the Golden Pen of Freedom, presented by the World Association of Newspapers, and UNESCO's prestigious Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Award. His first book, Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman, was published in 2006. See less