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Top 10 Underreported Humanitarian Stories

In December 1999, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières issued its second annual top 10 list of underreported humanitarian stories. Doctors Without Borders compiles this list to call attention to stories…
September 15, 2000
Doctors Without Borders

Lessons Learned in Africa

A reporter replays history so past mistakes don’t become future policy.
September 15, 2000
Wilson Wanene

In Zimbabwe, the Independent Press Struggles to Survive

Legal maneuvers and financial hard times challenge press freedom.
September 15, 2000
David Karanja

Imprisonment and Torture of Journalists in Zimbabwe

Eventually the courts ruled the law that jailed them was unconstitutional.
September 15, 2000
Mark G. Chavunduka

Questions Crime Reporters Sometimes Forget to Ask

In murder cases, the ‘easy story’ to report might be profoundly wrong.
September 15, 2000
John Painter Jr.

A Story of Courage in South African Journalism

Blacks accepted the white-owned Rand Daily Mail as their champion.
September 15, 2000
Dennis Cruywagen

Howard Simons’ Legacy Lives On

Scholarships for minority journalism students bear his name.
September 15, 2000
Marcia Slacum Greene

Reading Between the Lions

We had just finished up work on a film tracking a homeless couple over five years of their remarkable and disturbing lives. The resulting documentary won a bucketful of awards…
September 15, 2000
Judith Stoia

What Are the New Challenges in the Wake of New Technologies?

Photo © Colin Franzen/U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism,Center for Photography.Bill Kovach, Curator, Nieman Foundation: “We have created a communication system with the new technology during the last two decades…
June 15, 2000

Yes or No? Keeping a Candidate Scorecard

Steven Brill, Publisher of Brill’s Content, told conference participants what he would do to keep candidates accountable and the public interested in coverage of issues.Bill Kovach asked me to think…
June 15, 2000
Steven Brill