These recent pictures of Christopher Herwing document one of the most unique “real newsrooms” in the world.
You will remember that we included this “newspaper” in our “real newsrooms” collection.
It is in Monrovia (Liberia) where the news is written out daily on a chalk board for everyone to read as they pass by on the busy main street.
Alfred J. Sirleaf first established his chalk board news, ” Daily Talk” on May 14th 2000 during the Charles Taylor regime.
The innovative journalist saw a need for “straight to the point” reporting that was free and accessible to all.
His provocative style of reporting the truth led him to seriously fear for this life and resulted in the Daily Talk being destroyed twice before he finally fled into “exile” in Ghana.
As peace returned so did the Daily Talk and today it is one of the most read News Sources in the capital with thousands everyday taking the time to stop as they walk or drive by to get the breaking news.
The Daily Talk is not merely a Chalk board standing on the side of the road – Alfred J. Sirleaf has constructed his booth for maximum efficiency.
Behind the folding three panel chalk board is a small “News Room”.
In the News Room he can work on the next set of news while viewers read the current set by means of utilizing a rotating double sided chalk board.
More pictures and interesting captions here.
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