Enter your best ideas! Share This: For Immediate Release: May 10, 2012 Contact: Sonja Matanovic, Communications Director Telephone: 202.349.7624, smatanovic@icfj.org Call for Entries: $1 Million African News Innovation Challenge Africa’s first major contest designed to promote the development of digital media products and innovations is now accepting applications. African News Innovation Challenge (ANIC) will provide grants from $12,500 to $100,000 for the best... Read More
New Work
Reporter Threatened in Liberia
One of Liberia's top female journalists received death threats for reporting on female circumcision on International Women's Day.
Ethics or Exploitation?: Atrocity, Suffering and Storytelling
How stories can reveal the storyteller's best, and worst, ethical choices. My contribution toBeyond Kony2012, a critical look at the wildly popular advocacy video.
Insuring Livestock in Kenya, via Satellite
How an old NASA satellite and a team of Kenyan scientists are helping herders avoid financial ruin during drought. With a public radio feature here.
The Myth of the Maverick
What makes a good leader -- and does our love affair with mavericks make sense? Also, leaving as leading and a diplomat's constructive rebellion.
How Not to Write About Rape
An essay on the ethics of writing about trauma.
Multimedia
Beyond Peace Deals
My latest collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting investigates what we (think we) know about peace -- and what we're still learning, the hard way.
The Christian Science Monitor cover story, "The Peacebuilders," that came out of this project won the 2011 Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Gold Medal.
More multimedia work here