On 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…
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Now 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…
Read MoreIn Congo, another way of looking at a crisis
There are so many bits of reporting that never make it out of my notebooks, so many interesting things I learn that I can’t…
Read MoreLiberia’s “Rape Court”: Progress for women and girls delayed?
Last year, I reported with the intrepid Glenna Gordon a story about Liberia’s Court E, a court chamber in the capital city of Monrovia…
Read MoreA roundup of ideas on tweeting rape
Update: For a broader look at constructing a relationship between readers and writers when covering rape and trauma, see my January/February 2011 article in…
Read MoreHow to help readers trust you if you tweet about rape
Update: For more on earning readers’ trust in trauma stories, see my January/February 2011 article in the Columbia Journalism Review (PDF here with permission)….
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Should we tweet rape?
Update: This post includes content from a few others on the issue. Over the last few days, readers here and elsewhere have shared some…
Read MoreThis weekend, in human rights outrage…
Way up there in Canada…. Half of the sexual assault staff at a Canadian hospital center is sick, or tired — literally — and…
Read MoreWhy a “girl” can’t “change her mind” about rape
“can a girl change her mind about rape”? Dear Internet surfer who put that into Google and ended up on my blog: No. Rape…
Read MoreWell, that’s one way to deal with a rapist…
From the today’s reporting, at the Open Society Institute’s event “Accountability for Sexual Violence: Innovative Strategies at Work in Africa.” Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, cofounder and…
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