making the news - Colors Magazine, A survival guide
Find out what now news is made. Photos of an extreme undercover journalist in Ghana, a homemade radio station in Sierra Leone, drone papazazzi’s in France, and how Silvio Berlusconi influences the news in Italy.
Anas’ “Arab sheikh” disguise, used to get close to Chinese human traffickers
in Ghana
Anas hid his camera in this electrical socket to record a gynecologist raping his patients
DJ “General Focus”
A silicone “Koffi” doll used during a sting operation of Ghanian witch doctors who kill “possessed” babies
An accident victim disguise, used to expose unqualified hospital staff
Kelvin Doe’s homemade broadcast equipment
Undercover as a mentally ill beggar, Anas found corruption in a mental asylum in Accra, Ghana
Foam buttocks complete Anas’ “Lady Petra” disguise, used to bust an accused pedophile
Lahai’s phone is a Nokia with 26 days of battery life
Prosthetic albino arm, used to bait traders in Tanzania’s illegal market of human body parts
Anas disguised as a rock to observe cocoa smuggling from Ghana to the Cote d’Ivoire
Patrick Lahai at work in Bo, Sierra Leone
In 2011, news of Osama bin Laden’s assassination was broken by a Pakistani IT consultant’s tweet. The next year, a computer algorithm composed nearly 400,000 articles on Little League baseball for small-town newspapers across the United States. Now, print journalism has been declared America’s fastest-shrinking industry, but across Africa, newspaper circulation has risen by more than 30 percent. Colors #86- Making the News reveals the backstage of contemporary journalism: With stories on drone-wielding paparazzi, terrorist press releases and anti-mafia vigilante television anchors, Making the News explores how world events are selected, shaped, and sent to you in time for breakfast
