Cover Story: Covering Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence Is Not a ‘Crime of Passion’
When Melissa Jeltsen Googled Lorena Bobbitt’s name a few years ago, she was surprised to learn that the woman known for cutting … Read more
Recent Stories
Cover Story: Covering Domestic Violence
Photographing Domestic Violence: Showing Uncomfortable Truths
Where is the line between respecting the needs of survivors or the deceased and the public’s need to know?
Cover Story: Covering Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence in Chile: Calling Out Femicide
There is growing pressure on the media not to romanticize femicide as a “crime melodrama”
Cover Story: Covering Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence in Kenya: Stop Blaming Women
Much reporting tends to blame women for their own deaths while providing sympathetic coverage of alleged perpetrators
Cover Story: Covering Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence in China: Educating the Public
A new law making domestic violence a civil infraction is increasing awareness of the abuse one in four married women have experienced
From the Curator
“If You Want to Save Democracy, You First Must Save Yourself”
With the U.S. president no longer defending the essential role of journalism in a democracy, news outlets worldwide step up their fight for survival
Opinion
Political Polarization and the Press
What coverage of a 1951 Dartmouth-Princeton football game says about partisanship—and what journalism can do to address it
Opinion: Ethics
Mueller’s Testimony: Journalists Allow “Optics” to Triumph Over Substance
From Colin Powell’s 2003 U.N. presentation to Robert Mueller’s Russia testimony, reporters have prioritized the optics instead of the journalism
Opinion: Ethics
Trump’s “Go Back” Tweet: This Is What Racism Looks Like
White journalists have to get over their blind spots and start calling out racism
