I’ve seen this bad movie before—in fact, far too many times: strongmen, whether vicious kingpins or populist leaders bullying reporters in either my native Mexico or across Latin America, authorities threatening reporters by cutting off state advertising money, muzzling them … Read more
The failure of journalism and of polling to accurately reflect the electorate is not unique to this U.S. presidential election, or even to America. During the June referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union, Faisal Islam, political editor of … Read more
Protests in Iran and China have spotlighted the use of social media, showing its power in finding ways to push information past barriers set up by government. Read more
After working for more than a decade at the now banned Iranian magazine Zanan, a journalist now in the United States describes her feelings of identity, location and loss. Read more
Rarely do photographs accompany words on the op-ed page of The New York Times. But earlier this year Times columnist Nicholas Kristof connected four gruesome images of the genocide taking place in Darfur with his ongoing reporting about the … Read more
