Calling women media-makers in East Africa!
I know media-makers is a weird term, but when I look around, I see media everywhere. Journalists are the easiest to spot, but there’s…
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Reporters and Rape II: Readers’ trust and trauma stories
But first, a quick news update: A Congolese colonel is going to jail for his sex crimes. It’s the first such conviction — and…
Read MoreOn Reporters and Rape: Three ideas worth rising above the cacophony
There’s been a bevy of people with opinions on Lara Logan’s unfortunate trauma in Egypt. In case you’ve missed it, the chief foreign correspondent…
Read MoreRecommended Reading: On Darfur, Detroit, bad memoirs and perfect grape leaves
I’ve been working quite a lot lately, and I tend to balance that by avoiding this whole Internet 2.0 thing and going analog —…
Read MoreAn ode to Harper’s Magazine, and a plea to help save it
When I was growing up in West Virginia, pretty much the greatest weekend possible was convincing a parent to go on — or, at…
Read MoreAre state “secrets” really so malleable?
From the Christian Science Monitor, I got this tidbit about the coming prosecution of Jeffrey Sterling, accused of leaking classified information to a reporter….
Read MoreWorth your bandwidth
I’ve spent a few days catching up on one of my favorite podcasts, “How We Got Here.” The podcast is the brainchild of Jeb…
Read MoreCoda: Making myths about conflict zones
One more thing I want to pull up from the comments on my Cote d’Ivoire post, from Rebecca: On the streets here, especially during…
Read MoreMedia training dollars run amok?
Thanks to @penelopeinparis for highlighting this great opinion piece from Tom Kamara, editor and publisher of Liberia’s New Democrat newspaper. Kamara questions the utility…
Read MoreNow crowdsourcing: Best & worst journalism about rape
If you’re a regular here, you know I manage to find myself mired in commentary about journalism on rape once every three or four…
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