Archive for the ‘Journalism’ Category
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 about damn time. Two thousand people attended the verdict and sentencing, and 49 women had braved testifying against him in court, according to the BBC. I applaud you all. If you’re [...]
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 for CBS, was sexually assaulted in Cairo while reporting on the uprisings there. A lot of the response I’ve seen has been pretty mindless. There’s Nir Rosen, of course, and his [...]
Recommended 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 — does Kindle count as analog? — and curling up with a book (“book”). Or lots of magazine articles. I’ve been reading a lot, and I’ve got a few gems that you [...]
An 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 blessed 16, picking up my best friend and driving ourselves — an hour-plus trek to a Real City, with all the great suburban box store trappings we didn’t have. The most [...]
Are 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. The tidbit is this: In 2003, the courts said Sterling couldn’t pursue a discrimination case against the CIA because the case would expose state secrets. Now, to prosecute him for the [...]
Worth 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 Sharp, a reporter with The World, a BBC-NPR collaboration based in Boston. Sharp has done some phenomenal reporting from Congo and shepherded a great series called “How Wars End.” She’s definitely [...]
I am a freelance journalist and multimedia producer who covers human rights, Africa and foreign affairs. [