Haru Mutasa

Harugumi Mutasa is a Zimbabwean broadcast journalist. She is currently a journalist for Al Jazeera.

Career
Early Career

Mutasa began her career working for: the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), CNN, Television New Zealand (TVNZ), Associated Press Television News (APTN) and the STAR Sports network.

As a reporter based in Harare, Zimbabwe, Mutasa produced stories about her country for: CNN's Inside Africa, Television New Zealand (TVNZ) and APTN. She was once denied a visa by the United Kingdom because they assumed that there was no guarantee that she would return to Zimbabwe.[1] She has been under the spotlight for challenging the Western Media pertaining their reportage of Africa particularly Zimbabwe. Mutasa underscored that Euporeans do not like to be challenged, in that regard, she urged media practitioners in Zimbabwe to deliberate and establish why Western countries promote such narratives.[2]

Al Jazeera English

She is a field-correspondent for the Southern Africa region, based in Johannesburg, in South Africa. Previously, she worked in East Africa, based at the bureau in Nairobi.[3][4] In addition to these regions, Mutasa has covered stories from across Africa.

Although known mainly as a news correspondent, Mutasa also hosts studio-based interview-programmes. In 2013, she hosted the One World Summit show where pertinent issues around leadership were issues around millennial leadership were discussed, she was alongside Pakistani author and political commentator, Fatima Bhutto.[5]

Awards

References
  1. Staff Reporter (15 February 2019). "Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa denied UK visa, Zimbabwe's govt responds". The Zimbabwe Mail. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  2. Staff Reporter (31 March 2019). "Who is profiting from negative reporting?". The Zimbabwe Mail. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  3. "Release: African Line Up". english.aljazeera.net. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  4. Al-Jazeera says its English-language news channel will launch Nov. 15 Archived 2009-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Zimbabwe's Haru Mutasa hosts Al Jazeera talk show". Bulawayo24 News. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  6. Television Journalism Awards Winners 2007


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