Archive for the ‘Journalism’ Category
Coda: 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 the day, it seems almost normal. Tense, but normal. The radar traffic cops are back to writing speeding tickets even. I can freely travel all over the city without problem, and [...]
Media 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 of the media training donors seem so eager to pour money into. He makes some good points: “Journalism is a profession requiring training and skills development. It takes years, not days [...]
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 months… though it rarely attracts the attention it did a month ago. I’m working on an essay that’s going to bring a lot of my thoughts, and a lot of what [...]
Muslims wear things!
Including hot little tennis dresses, cargo vests, cowboy hats, track suits… and, in the case of the founder of Pakistan, a monocole. Oh, and also, by the way, NYPD blues. Khalid Latif will, according to comments on the web site, be on the Colbert Report next week. That just confirms what I’ve always known: Every [...]
If you’ve got a radio, you can hear my voice
I have a short radio essay, “The Music of Language,” about the cacophony and the calm of working across a handful of languages, on National Public Radio’s World Vision Report this weekend. Check your local listings for times, or listen to it online starting at midnight, pacific time. Thanks to my favorite Dutchman, who shall [...]
Dear Muslims, ask not what Juan Williams did to you, but what you can do for Juan Williams
National Public Radio just fired Juan Williams, one of its long-time contributors. NPR fired him for saying this, on FOX News’ Bill O’Reilly program: “I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot….But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, [...]
I am a freelance journalist and multimedia producer who covers human rights, Africa and foreign affairs. [