Bill Ristow

Bill Ristow is a journalist and international journalism trainer based in Seattle, Washington. After a 23-year career at the Seattle Times, where he held positions including metro editor and features editor, he has trained professional journalists and students in Uganda, Ethiopia, and Kenya, and, most recently, as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Ghana. He has authored four other reports for CIMA: Sword and Shield: Self-Regulation and International Media and Under Attack: Practicing Journalism in a Dangerous World, both published in 2009; Cash for Coverage: Bribery of Journalists Around the World, published in 2010; and Independent Media in Exile, published in 2011.