Articles

From Darkness Into Blinding Glare

What does it take to get the press to shine its searchlight in distant places?
September 15, 2000
Susan Moeller

Coverage of AIDS in Africa: The media are silent no longer.

If you had to plan an AIDS conference and you wanted to command the world’s attention, you might have chosen the city of Durban in the South African province of…
September 15, 2000
Susan Moeller

Coverage of AIDS in Africa: The media are silent no longer.

If you had to plan an AIDS conference and you wanted to command the world’s attention, you might have chosen the city of Durban in the South African province of…
September 15, 2000
Susan Moeller

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