From safety of New York, reporting on distant home

Nigerian journalist and ex-pat Omoyele Sowore is the focus of this New York Times Piece on exiled journalists in New York City.  Since 2001 CPJ cites 649 journalists who have been driven into exile, 592 or which still have not returned to their home country. Despite some being thousands of miles from home, the rapid spread of online technology world wide now allows exiled journalists more opportunity to continue reporting and reach those they left behind.  

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