Eleanor Marchant (February - August 2011)

Eleanor Marchant was a Visiting Student at the Programme for Comparative Media Law & Policy (PCMLP). She received her Masters in international relations from New York University where she focused on media and democratization in West Africa and her Bachelors in politics and economics from the University of Bristol. Prior to coming to PCMLP, Eleanor served as the Program Officer for Media Development Loan Fund (MDLF), a New York-based nonprofit that funds developing world journalism where she directed an evaluation of MDLF's impact on independent media .

Eleanor has also previously worked as a Visiting Fellow at the Media Institute, an east African press freedom organization based in Kenya. Here she covered the media during the 2007 Kenyan presidential election for the Institute’s quarterly media review magazine, Expression Today, and served as the Assistant Editor for the magazine’s first edition covering the post-election violence.

Since 2007, Eleanor has also consulted for Freedom House as a West African analyst for the organization’s annual surveys – Freedom in the World and Freedom of the Press. Prior to that she worked for Freedom House as the Assistant Editor for the Freedom of the Press survey and as a Research Associate focused on media freedom and civic movements.