Prue Clarke is a television, radio, and print reporter specializing in Africa. Prue’s work appears on public radio in the U.S., Canada, and Australia and in The Times of London, The Australian, and the Globe and Mail newspapers. Prue began her career as an on-air television correspondent with Australia’s ABC News in Sydney in 1997. She reported from the ABC’s New York bureau from 2000- 2003 covering the September 11th attacks and reporting daily business news from the New York Stock Exchange. Prue was a reporter with the Financial Times New York bureau until 2004.

Prue spent six months training journalists in Ghana in 2004. Since then she has focused on Africa covering post-war elections and reconstruction in Liberia, the burgeoning child sex trade in Ghana, the Aids crisis in Rwanda and Uganda, and war in the Congo. Prue’s reporting has won numerous awards including the national Edward R. Murrow award for feature reporting in 2009. Her expose of child slavery in Ghana’s fishing industry won a Gabriel award and a U.N. Gold Medal, among others. Her coverage of the election of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and her efforts to build democracy in Liberia won an Amnesty International award. Prue has also reported from Indonesia and the aboriginal communities of Central Australia.

Prue is working on several projects to build media in West Africa. She consults to the Open Society’s Revenue Watch Institute building the capacity of journalists to cover resources industries in Africa. Prue has trained journalists in Ghana, Liberia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She has masters degrees in International Affairs and Journalism.