Joe Bartuah is a
Liberia
Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ...
n journalist. He is a former editor of ''
The News'', a
Monrovia
Monrovia () is the capital city of the West African country of Liberia. Founded in 1822, it is located on Cape Mesurado on the Atlantic coast and as of the 2008 census had 1,010,970 residents, home to 29% of Liberia’s total population. As the ...
-based daily newspaper. He currently serves as Media Specialist for Consolidated Media, Inc., a non-profit media advocacy organization based in
Boston, Massachusetts.
Arrest
Bartuah was arrested along with fellow journalists
Abdullah Dukuly
Abdullah Dukuly (also known as Abdulai Dukuly and Abdoulaye W. Dukule) is a Liberian journalist and news editor, formerly of '' The News'', a Monrovia-based daily publication.
Arrest
Dukuly was arrested along with fellow editors Joseph Bartuah, ...
,
Jerome Dalieh and
Bobby Tapson on 21 February 2001, after ''The News'' reported the government of
Charles Taylor paid 50,000
United States dollar
The United States dollar ( symbol: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ or U.S. Dollar, to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the officia ...
s to fix non-existent helicopters rather than pay civil servants.
Biography
Bartuah hails from Kaipa, Yarwin-Mehnsonon District,
Nimba County
Nimba County is a county in northeastern Liberia that shares borders with the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire in the East and the Republic of Guinea in the Northwest. Its capital city is Sanniquellie and its most populous city is Ganta. With the count ...
in Liberia. He previously worked with the Information Ministry in Liberia, where he served as Assistant Editor-in-Chief prior to the eruption of the civil war in 1989; he later became Director of Media Relations at the same ministry and Editor-in-Chief of the ''Liberia Today'' newspaper between 1992 and December 1994.
Perhaps his most successful job as a journalist was as Editor of ''The NEWS'' newspaper between 1995 and 2001, helping to raise the paper's profile and circulation during the turbulent years of the civil upheaval. It was during this time that he debuted his "New Thinking" column, an incisively analytical commentary on the prevailing socio-economic and political malaise of the time. He has been the brain behind several political speeches in the 1997 election.
References
External links
* Joseph Bartuah
"Africa, African-Americans and American Politics" ''The Perspective'', Atlanta, Georgia, January 22, 2004.
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Liberian journalists
People from Nimba County
People from Monrovia
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