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Joanna Jolly
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Occupation(s)journalist, author

Joanna Jolly is a UK journalist and author.[1][2] Her reporting has covered sexual violence in India and Canada. In 2016 the Harvard Kennedy School granted her a Joan Shorenstein Fellowship.

In 2019 she published Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine, an account of the investigation of the murder of 15 year old Cree Tina Fontaine, and its impact on relations between First Nations peoples and Canada.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Joanna Jolly". Pullitzer Center. Retrieved 2020-02-13. Joanna Jolly is an award-winning BBC reporter based in London.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "Speaker Bio – Joanna Jolly". Harvard University. Retrieved 2020-02-13. She was a Spring 2016 Joan Shorenstein Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School where she wrote a paper on the media's coverage of sexual violence in India.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ Jenny Ferguson (September 2019). "Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine". The origins of Jolly's book trace back to a 2015 BBC radio broadcast and multimedia article, "Red River Women." Following the success of that project, Jolly felt compelled to dig deeper into the subject by writing a book that would centre on Winnipeg's "unforgiving river" and Tina in particular.