Actually, Nick Kristof, this is a damn good point.
One more thing on this “Nick Kristof named a 9-year-old rape victim!” controversy. In my, “Thanks for your time in the middle of Congo,…
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When can you name rape victims? Nick Kristof replies
This is the first of a two posts about this. Mostly because I wrote this, went to bed at 2 am, then I got…
Read MoreAn open apology to Liberia
UPDATE: Inexplicably, Vice has taken its apology letter down. Weird. But you can still find a cached version here. (Thanks, Google, the sometimes-benevolent big…
Read MoreOne more casualty of the news biz
McClatchy pulls its reporter from Africa. Shashank Bengali has been doing some really fascinating work there, but the mother ship called him home. Or…
Read MoreA young reporter in Haiti
I was incredibly moved by Huascar Robles’ account of reporting in Haiti. Huascar is a young Puerto Rican reporter who had been researching an…
Read MoreHow to count your war dead
I stumbled into a controversy last week when I wrote an article about the new Human Security Report. I wasn’t the only one; lots…
Read MoreFreedom of the press…but maybe not in the Green Zone?
Stars and Stripes has a disturbing article today about a PR service called Rendon, which the Pentagon uses to screen journalists before they embed…
Read MoreCheck your press freedoms at the (US) border
John Dinges, a Columbia University journalism school professor and a veteran of Latin America (saving you the string of awards he’s won), headed back…
Read MoreAddendum to #CNNfail (a possible #NYTimesfail?)
Kris Kotarski made a nice point in the comments yesterday: “As far as #CNNfail, it does not necessarily mean #allmediafail.” But to complicate matters…
Read MoreEnough with the #CNNFail, or, Why Twitter's Failings Prove We Still Need Reporters
I’m no defender of CNN, or of television news in general. (And if you can’t imagine why, I recommend Katie Couric’s recent performance on…
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