For 11 years, I worked somewhere famous. Now, I work somewhere virtually unknown. In January, I left “All Things Considered” (“ATC”)—seven months since my Nieman fellowship ended—to create a position at NPR’s newly rebooted training unit, Editorial Coaching and Development. Read more
In Mexico City, where street harassment is notoriously aggressive, degrading catcalls are hurled at women on buses, sidewalks, and in their daily commutes. Last fall Fusion embarked on a project to document the routine ways women are assaulted in … Read more
From the very beginning—the scrolls of maps marked with every police station, hospital, and border patrol outpost; the long discussions about satellite phones and kidnapping insurance; the phone call with my writer, Luke Dittrich, about “The Judge,” a gun … Read more
Over the five months that I have been editor of IndiaSpend, a data-driven website that focuses on public interest journalism, our social media following has increased by about 600 percent, albeit from a low base. Our stories are … Read more
In Romania, there is little tradition of deeply reported, well-told true stories, partly a result of an immature media culture, partly a symptom of 40-plus years of communism that has made people suspicious of sharing their lives with others. In … Read more
Human rights lawyer Mtetwa continues to speak out despite being arrested and imprisoned Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters A film about Beatrice Mtetwa, … Read more
In my first reporting job out of college, I traveled across Communist Eastern Europe and wrote travel guidebooks. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, I obtained my secret police file, which showed that Stasi agents had trailed me … Read more
Over the past year, Holly Williams, NF ’08, a correspondent for CBS News, has covered conflicts in Iraq and Ukraine. Earlier this summer she made her first trip to Gaza: On my eighth morning in Gaza, I woke up … Read more
