How Not to Write About Rape
How can we make readers ethically comfortable with our journalism choices but morally uncomfortable with the horrors we have to write about?
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Read MoreCote d’Ivoire is going through an ugly time, and today was an especially ugly day. The UN thinks the incumbent president is hiding evidence…
Read MoreImagine that! I saw this article about fifteen minutes after I blogged about Uganda’s urge to grope women on behalf of the national safety….
Read MoreFemale guests at Kampala hotels may be thoroughly groped in the days ahead — in the name of national security, of course. Says the…
Read MoreNot long ago, a short article I wrote for the Christian Science Monitor, about Rwanda’s majority female parliament, prompted a wee spat in this…
Read MoreThe Committee to Protect Journalists is on the ball these days, raising warnings about threats against journalists in the DRC and in Kenya and…
Read MoreOne of my favorite readers* sent me this blog post recently, by a young woman who upped to Mali for a month after graduating…
Read MoreSince Kenya has declared the Monday after Christmas a normal work day, I thought I’d pitch in and give a roundup colossal enough to…
Read MoreJudging from my google alerts, the Christmas hook was what the conflict mineral campaign really needed to take off. If I open another story…
Read MoreI caught this New Times piece about a group of Harvard kids who toured Rwanda and met with the president. One of them told…
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