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Claire Whitaker on the Night Mandela Died and the Weight of the Camera
The Dr. Rod Berger Show is presented by Fair Observer.
A news camera usually arrives on the worst day of someone's life. Claire Whitaker never let herself forget it.
Dr. Rod Berger sits down with Claire Whitaker, chair of Fair Observer, video journalist and media trainer, to talk about what nearly two decades at the BBC and AFP taught her about the people on the other side of the lens. She takes him back to Johannesburg in the small hours after Nelson Mandela died, when the crowd outside his house in Houghton sang liberation songs instead of weeping. Then she takes him into Oscar Pistorius's…
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