A journalist in Zimbabwe, researching a story with ties to Sweden, needed to contact an investigative reporter in that Scandinavian country, though he knew no one there. In Montreal, a French-speaking reporter, working on an article about corporate sleuths, was … Read more
Venezuelan reporter Carlos Subero constructed his own databases to analyze politicians’ performances. Swedish reporter Stefan Lisinski exposed questionable practices involving bankrupt companies by using a massive Swedish database of information on the companies and directors. Dutch journalist Marjan Agerbeek probed … 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 in … Read more
From Hong Kong— A report on the press after China’s return From the United States— Reports on technological tools to help journalists track international stories from their office computers Peter Stein, Managing Editor of The Asian Wall … Read more
Watching events in Jakarta, I felt the straps of my journalistic straitjacket loosening. The Indonesian government has announced the end of the licensing system. But is press freedom really dawning? I wonder. Fear of writing the truth has become such … Read more