Jennifer Swift Morgan

Results are expected today in the Guinean election, the first democratic polling in that country after 52 years of junta rule. Nassirou Diallo, a Guinean journalist who fled the country after last year's military crackdown, and Jennifer Swift-Morgan, co-founder of Alliance Guinea, talk about Guinea's election and the crowd-sourcing work by Alliance Guinea.

Nassirou Diallo, a Guinean journalist who fled the country following last year's massacre, and Jennifer Swift-Morgan, co-founder of Alliance Guinea, discuss the freedom of the press and its importance to a democracy.

→ Event: Nassirou Diallo will be speaking tonight at Columbia University's School of Journalism at a panel called Democracy Under Fire: Freedom of Media in Guinea, from 7 to 9 p.m.