Ted Poston: Pioneering American Journalist Kathleen Hauke University of Georgia Press. 326 Pages. $29.95.In today’s age of hyper-speed journalism, where news cycles change hourly and consumers can get stories at the … Read more
In education, it’s the era of accountability. Teachers are tested to measure their ability to instruct. Students take standardized tests to find out what they have learned and where they rank compared with others. Controversy and debate swirl around the … Read more
This is excerpted from a December 18 Nieman seminar in which Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley, offered his perspective on foreign news coverage. Question: Why should the average American newspaper reader care about … Read more
Secrecy: The American Experience Daniel Patrick Moynihan Yale University Press. 262 Pages. $22.50. A Culture of Secrecy: The Government Versus the People’s Right to Know Edited by Athan G. Theoharis University Press of Kansas. 245 … Read more
This article is excerpted from a paper prepared by Roy Gutman, a correspondent for Newsday, for the International Studies Association conference held in Vienna, Austria in September 1998. Human rights abuses, war crimes and impunity are the stuff of … Read more
Rwandan refugees board a cargo plane in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that will take them back to Kigali, Rwanda. A mother sits next to her daughter who died on the runway … Read more
Ten young teens draped themselves over chairs, forming a sloppy circle in the center of an empty middle-school classroom. I sat on the edge of the circle, an outsider looking in on an extraordinary preadolescent confessional. “OK, clean time. How … Read more
Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death Susan D. Moeller Routledge. 390 Pages. $27.50.Any reporter working in the twilight of the Cold War and into the 1990’s … Read more