‘… the continuing timidity of the American media looked increasingly like cowardice, appeasement, or better-you-than-me cynicism.’

From its founding in 1989 to the end of 2004, when I stepped down as its director, the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity grew to a full-time staff of 40…

The International News Safety Institute provides training and support for journalists whose work puts them in danger.

‘Our generation is more vocal about trauma we experience than others have been. It can't be avoided when you see this much violence and senseless death.’

‘… courage is not me, a clunky reporter clutching a notebook and treading on people’s lives, trying to get them to open up their souls.’

‘What of our colleagues who have trauma engraved on their psyches?’

‘In war zones, I would learn about another feeling, one I have yet to define but seems the opposite of fear ….’

‘I don’t believe in the journalist as a hero.’

A war correspondent seeks out people who live in dangerous war zones to tell their stories and finds that ‘by sharing the fear it helps a lot.’

‘… journalists’ courage needs a source, and so far I have recognized three such sources: insanity, lack of any clue, ideals.’