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Western Media Training: Challenging James Miller’s View

Michael J. Jordan, a Slovakia-based foreign correspondent who has extensive experience teaching journalism overseas, has written a letter to the editor in rebuttal to James Miller’s “Questioning the Western Approach…

Statement by Sonali Samarasinghe Wickrematunge

Your Highness, Mr Director-General, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: On behalf of my late husband and fellow journalist, Lasantha Wickrematunge, I wish to thank you most sincerely for this great…

The Mexican Press: At the Crossroads of Violence

Last year ‘we declared ourselves war correspondents in our own land.’

Intimidation, Exile and the Exhilaration of an Investigative Story Being Published

‘Panama’s La Prensa and [Enrique] Zileri’s Caretas [in Peru] were exceptional places where investigative journalism was encouraged and defended, though both had to pay a price for doing it.’

Exposing Corruption When Illegal Activity Is Business as Usual

‘Unveiling corruption throughout Latin America awakens dreadful instincts in powerful politicians while judicial systems … have repeatedly turned their backs on journalists or, in some cases, even helped to suppress…

The Stark Contrast of Words and Deeds

‘In Armenia, the shutdown of A1+ was a valuable lesson to all nonstate-run TV companies in showing what happens to a company that acts in ways considered to be unloyal…

The Challenge: Investigating ‘Russian’ Mafias in a Time of Twitter

Can Western and Eastern European journalists join together to overcome the difficulties the press have in covering these powerful criminal forces?

Russian Journalists Need Help in Exposing Corruption

‘While journalists and bloggers in Russia risk their lives to reveal corrupt practices, there are ways that those living in free and lawful societies can aid their efforts.’

Libel Laws Pose Obstacles to Ukraine’s Investigative Journalists

‘If we decide to pursue the story, they [lawyers] guarantee a lawsuit will be filed in London, the libel capital of the world, where the burden of proof is on…