Andrew Meldrum
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Andrew Meldrum, a Nieman Fellow (born 1952) is an American reporter and journalist. He was The Economist magazine and the The Guardian newspaper correspondent in Zimbabwe from 1980 to May 2003 before being expelled by the Zimbabwean government for allegedly “publishing a falsehood”.
Meldrum graduated from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, United States. He is a holder of a Masters degree from Columbia University School of Journalism.
In 2004 Meldrum won the Schork Award for “courageous international journalism” from Columbia University. In his career and stay in Zimbabwe, he wrote a book called Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe which talks about his 23 years stay. He will discuss the current situation in Zimbabwe and South Africa.