This is excerpted from a December 18 Nieman seminar in which Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley, offered his perspective on foreign news coverage. Question: Why should the average American newspaper reader care about … Read more
Secrecy: The American Experience Daniel Patrick Moynihan Yale University Press. 262 Pages. $22.50. A Culture of Secrecy: The Government Versus the People’s Right to Know Edited by Athan G. Theoharis University Press of Kansas. 245 … Read more
This article is excerpted from a paper prepared by Roy Gutman, a correspondent for Newsday, for the International Studies Association conference held in Vienna, Austria in September 1998. Human rights abuses, war crimes and impunity are the stuff of … Read more
Rwandan refugees board a cargo plane in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that will take them back to Kigali, Rwanda. A mother sits next to her daughter who died on the runway … Read more
Ten young teens draped themselves over chairs, forming a sloppy circle in the center of an empty middle-school classroom. I sat on the edge of the circle, an outsider looking in on an extraordinary preadolescent confessional. “OK, clean time. How … Read more
Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death Susan D. Moeller Routledge. 390 Pages. $27.50.Any reporter working in the twilight of the Cold War and into the 1990’s … Read more
The Virginia Press Association invited me to their annual meeting to talk about the future. Specifically, they wanted to talk about how newspapers compete in the world of cyberspace. The weather canceled those plans so I’d like to pass along … Read more
This image of Birkenau death camp taken in August 1944 shows prisoners lined up at gas chambers and other parts of the camp. Though photographed from an airplane, the image is roughly equivalent … Read more