Articles

Courage Can Mean Pushing Gradually Against Boundaries in Iran

‘Courage is not always about overcoming immediate dangers or reaching immediate ends.’

The Embrace of Principled Stands

During the civil rights era, a few newspaper owners, editors and reporters risked their lives and livelihoods by supporting Supreme Court rulings and desegregation.

Seeking Journalistic Courage in Washington, D.C.

‘The disturbing trend is that more and more of these informational offerings are nothing but PR peddled as “news.”’

Investigative Journalism Doesn’t Win Many Friends

‘… just about everything has been tried to discourage these kinds of investigations by those who are unhappy with what we find.’

Courage of the Wise and Patient Kind

‘Our craft demands such courage if we are to find a constructive way through the many difficulties that challenge us today.’

Public Support Wanes, Some Journalists

‘Despite the low esteem in which the news media are held today, some of the best, most courageous news coverage is being produced.’

H.L. Mencken: Courage in a Time of Lynching

Subscriptions were cancelled, threats made on him and Sunpapers’ staff, and advertisers’ products were boycotted, but Mencken's words were published.

The Forces Threatening Journalism

‘The challenges facing news professionals — and threatening journalism in the public interest — are significant and cannot be avoided.’

Summer 2006: Introduction

Courage, as these journalists remind us, exposes itself in different guises. It can be found in the wisdom of understanding when danger finally has outweighed the risk. Or it can…

When Risks Make a Story Too Dangerous to Tell

On January 26, 2006, a few days after freelance reporter Jill Carroll was kidnapped in Iraq, Los Angeles Times correspondent Alissa J. Rubin wrote a Page One story entitled, “Abduction…