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Columbia Journalism Review·@SusieBanikarim·2 months ago
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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Sudan is in the grip of the world’s largest and most catastrophic humanitarian crisis. Since a brutal civil war erupted in 2023, almost fourteen million people have been forced to flee their homes, and famine is so widespread that more than 40 percent of the population is not getting enough food. The healthcare system has completely collapsed, and there are reports of another genocide in Darfur. It’s a situation that António Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, has described as “a crisis of staggering scale and brutality.” And yet there has been a glaring disparity between the scale of the crisis and the media coverage it has received. One notable exception has been PBS NewsHour, which has consistently covered the conflict since it began. Last week, Ann Curry filed a heartbreaking report for the program from a camp for displaced people in South Sudan.…

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