Posts Tagged ‘Journalism’
"…Okay, now tell me where he put his hands"
This is, unhappily, the sequel to my earlier taken-down on major media coverage of rape in conflict. Turns out I have a little bit of a thing about this…
So the New York Times’ new West Africa guy is covering the violence in Guinea. (Missed it? Here’s the Twitter version: Government soldiers killed [...]
Libraries in Liberia!
Well, law libraries anyway. Yesterday, Glenna Gordon and I went to what we’re pretty sure is all of them — there are four, actually, which is three to four more than most people seem to think when we tell them this — in search of what should be a pretty standard document. We [...]
The Peoples Pulitzers: What would YOU choose?
Think back on your favorite articles from last year. You know, back when banks were private entities, the dollar was worth more than the peso, and your credit card balance hadn’t been cut. Any of the stories that come to mind good enough for a Pulitzer?
I’m taking a readers-choice poll of the media [...]
Editorial Choices I, or, "Gawker, will you feel even a little bad if someone DOES blow up the AIG building?"
Probably even my African readers have a good idea of how much populism is being stirred in American right now by just saying the letters “AIG.” AIG is the insurance giant that went belly-up because of those pesky mortgage-backed securities, except that “belly-up” in America these days means, “Got billions of bailout dollars.” [...]
Hey, journalists, here's an idea…
I really have to just start another journalism blog, so those of you who are here for Africa don’t have to wade through this. But the journalism business problem is one with universal significance, as in, how will we good people ever know anything without…me?
Anyway, here’s Journalism-Saving Idea No. 349348931, from the very clever [...]
"You're totally wrong," or, how I can single-handedly diagnose and save all of journalism
Here’s a description of what one new media guru (who’s actually kind of an old dude, so take hard, Old Guard of a Dying Industry, you too can learn new ways) has to say about teaching young journalists. I share this because it strikes me that for all the buzz of these blingy new [...]
I am a freelance journalist and multimedia producer who covers human rights, Africa and foreign affairs. [