Articles

Why Reporters and Editors Get Health Coverage Wrong

Health journalists need and want special training.
March 15, 2003
Melinda Voss

AIDS in Africa: A Story That Must Be Told

Reporters confront significant barriers, imposed by governments, editors and their own experiences, to accurately portray this health crisis.
March 15, 2003
Huntly Collins

Reporting on HIV/AIDS in Kenya

‘Medical experts are not willing to release the information to the media because they fear rebuttal from government authorities….’
March 15, 2003
Joseph Ngome

Documenting the Plague of AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

By photographing this disease’s devastation, James Nachtwey appeals ‘to stop the madness, lend a hand, restore humanity.’
March 15, 2003
James Nachtwey

Journalism Is Failing in Its Coverage of Global AIDS

‘The worst global pandemic since the Black Death of the Middle Ages receives less media attention than a World Cup soccer match.’
March 15, 2003
Sabin Russell

The Roles Journalists Played During the Balkan War

‘… this book is a welcomed reminder of how journalism can be a noble calling, but also a foul profession.’
March 15, 2003
Senad Pecanin

War Reporting: How Should Civilian Casualties Be Reported?

A veteran journalist looks at other wars to help journalists understand the value of this reporting and how best to cover them.
March 15, 2003
Bob Zelnick

Deciding to Testify About Rwanda

‘As a journalist, I might argue against testifying but, as a human being, I could not.’
March 15, 2003
Lindsey Hilsum

The Unseen Gulf War

A photographer portrays human suffering in war.
March 15, 2003
Peter Turnley

In the 1980’s, a Chicago Newspaper Investigated Cardinal Cody

‘We’re going to have to do as careful and as in-depth reporting as anyone’s ever done, because this is dynamite.’
March 15, 2003
Roy Larson