Seleman joins IRE — Uplink Archive

Pricel Issa Seleman, a senior reporter from The African in Tanzania, joins IRE and NICAR as an Alfred Friendly Press Fellow to study investigative reporting, FOIA, and computer-assisted reporting while contributing to IRE publications and the Columbia Missourian.

IRE and NICAR welcomes Pricel Issa Seleman, a 2005 Alfred Friendly Press Fellow. Seleman is a senior reporter for The (Tanzania) African, where he also assists with editing and translation from Kiswahili to English.

Seleman has worked for the African since 1999, in addition to writing for the Berliner, and London-based Africa Confidential. In addition to English and Kiswahili, Seleman is fluent in Nyanja and Shona, the languages of Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Seleman is spending six months at IRE and NICAR studying the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, investigative reporting and computer-assisted reporting. He also will be writing for IRE publications and reporting for the Columbia Missourian, the community newspaper operated by the Missouri School of Journalism.