‘I understand better our obligation to expand communication about the program through the tools of e-mail and the Web.’

‘There are journalists who justify their apathy with the lack of [good working] conditions.’

With concerns about safety, ‘our interpreters became something much more than translators.’

‘If any of my students reacted against the government’s methods of control, they feared for their lives.’

‘… our newsrooms are impoverished, and it will take much more than training courses to correct the situation.’

‘For people to have trust in this profession, to whom do they look for various standards, for professionalization, of the journalistic craft?’

‘Western reporters in Africa get away with an ignorance that would not be tolerated if they were assigned to other world regions ….’

‘What choices will news organizations make in the years ahead about coverage of the world’s poor and their problems?’ Two new books provide direction.

In ‘Bad News,’ a retired network correspondent eulogizes the decline of foreign news reporting.

A journalist longs for a more ‘dispassionate discussion’ of U.S. war policy.