Reply #5: Paul Salopek wrote the article [View All]

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Salopek began his journalism career in 1985 when his motorcycle broke down in Roswell, N.M., and he took a police-reporting job at the local newspaper to earn repair money. Since then has had covered conflicts in Central America., New Guinea and the Balkans.
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2001/international-reporting/bio/salopekbio.html

In 1998, Salopek won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for a series on the controversial Human Genome Diversity Project.

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times for her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court (moved by the Board to the Beat Reporting category), and David Barstow of the St. Petersburg Times for his narrative portrait of the legal struggle against the tobacco industry, centered on the personalities who were key in reaching a tentative settlement of billions of dollars.
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1998/explanatory-reporting/

So how did he get his info?
Does he speak even ONE of Africa's many thousands of languages?
But then again, does he really need to?

Prior to joining the Tribune, he worked as a writer for the National Geographic for three years, and wrote the October 1995 cover story on Africa's mountain gorillas.