Man of the Year
Simon Eroro, a reporter for the Post-Courier newspaper in Papua New Guinea, really wanted to get a story to expose how Free West Papua militants from Indonesia were getting across the border into PNG. “The impact of Simon’s scoop was enormous,” said the judges of an in-house journalism prize for News Limited reporters; the company employs Eroro. “The police commissioner launched a major operation to tighten the borders and close down the [Free West Papua] refugee camps.” But to get that scoop — to interview a group of “jungle rebels” who rarely let journalists in — Eroro had to agree to first allow himself to be circumcised with bamboo sticks. He did, they did, and he got the scoop and the company award. (RC/London Telegraph) ...Nice move, but I bet he can’t pull it off again!Original Publication Date: 04 December 2011
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
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