Andrew Meldrum

Andrew Meldrum (born 1951) is an American journalist who has concentrated on Africa and human rights. He worked in Zimbabwe for 23 years. Currently Meldrum is deputy managing editor and senior editor for Africa at GlobalPost. He was The Economist magazine and The Guardian newspaper correspondent in Zimbabwe from 1980 to May 2003 before being illegally expelled by the Zimbabwean government because the government objected to his reports exposing state torture. Meldrum attended high school at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio, graduating in 1970. He then studied history at Middlebury College and got a Masters degree from Columbia University School of Journalism in 1977. In 2004 Meldrum won the Schork Award for "courageous...