Samson

Samson Mulugeta is a journalist who has covered conflict stories in Africa and the Middle East.

In the past 14 years, Mulugeta has covered urban stories for the Boston Herald and the

New York Daily News. As New York Newsday's Africa Bureau Chief from 2001 - 2005,

Mulugeta covered conflicts in Darfur, Somalia, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Uganda and the

Ethiopian-Eritrean war. He has also reported on the war in Iraq in two tours of duty, the

condition of Christians in Pakistan, the struggle for integration of Ethiopian Jews in Israel

and traced Osama Bin Laden’s ancestors in the Hadhramaut region of Yemen.

Mulugeta recently produced a documentary in Senegal chronicling how non-iodized salt has a

devastating effect on the lives of two billion of the world’s people.

As a fellow of the Knight International Center for Journalists, Mulugeta spent a year

teaching journalism at Addis Ababa’s Unity College in 2000. He was awarded First Prize

for International Reporting by the New York Association of Black Journalists in 2004 for

his reportage on the land dispute in Zimbabwe.

Mulugeta recently completed a study of the Ethiopian community in South Africa as a

media fellow for the Open Society for South Africa. The articles were published in The

City Press and the Star. He is currently working on a study of the immigrant community

in the inner city of Johannesburg in a project funded by the Ford Foundation and Goethe Institute.