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Maurice Oniang'o

Maurice Oniang’o is an award-winning independent multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker reporting on conservation, social justice and human rights issues. He has written for National GeographicColumbia Journalism Review, GIJN (Global Investigative Journalism Network)100 ReportersAfrica.com, and Transparency International, among others.

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“Nuance, accuracy and reason are often lost”: What the media gets wrong about Iran

Having lived in Iran and later covered it from elsewhere, including Britain and now the US, I have seen how reliance on clichés and stale terminology affects the way some mainstream outlets cover the country. You can read commentary today and, if you removed the date, it could easily have been written 10 or 15 years ago.