Posts Tagged ‘Journalism’
The Dart Center Guide to Reporting on Sexual Violence
Given the recent conversation on this blog and elsewhere, I thought readers might benefit from this guide. Please share it freely with anyone who might find these tips useful. I think they are helpful for reporting on other sensitive topics, as well. You might also be interested in my post on Meaningful Consent in Trauma [...]
Events that are worth a New York minute — and more
Here are two upcoming events that promise to be interesting and inspiring. If you’re in the City, come on by. If you’re not, tell your metro-friends. (And come say hi to me at the Dart celebration!) A Celebration of the Dart Society, an collective of journalists whose work focuses on trauma, broadly defined. Gloria Steinem [...]
Journalism gets tough in East Africa
The Committee to Protect Journalists is on the ball these days, raising warnings about threats against journalists in the DRC and in Kenya and publishing the first of a series of reports from Burundi. Not too much to be optimistic about, though. Congolese journalist Robert Shemahamba was taken into custody by intelligence agents after moderating [...]
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 very compelling thoughts. For a roundup of ideas offered on this topic, from comments across this blog and elsewhere on the Internet, please see my newest post on the issue. For [...]
A chorus of truth-telling: On hegemony, Africa and the news
Forget h/t. An out and out handshake to @sonjasugira for a link to The Revolution Will Not Come By PowerPoint, a very unsentimental essay by Martin Kimani at the role of rational thinking (read: development) in Africa that left me profoundly moved. Every paragraph had me thinking deeply about something. I’ll highlight just one section: [...]
I am a freelance journalist and multimedia producer who covers human rights, Africa and foreign affairs. [