‘We have covered Africa this year, so we won’t be doing anything for a while.’

‘… there is an obvious need for independent press scrutiny to hold these tribunals accountable.’

‘The patronizing reporting one witnesses today is as bad as the condescending work of the past.’

‘We would work to capture and convey the human dignity not often found in stories painting statistical portraits.'

Statistics don’t matter when disease and disaster exact such high human tolls in Africa.

A BBC foreign correspondent pleads with journalists to move past their relentless focus on Africa’s misery.  

In acquiescing to government requests for two broadcast delays, CBS News erred.

A program to improve child health engages teenagers interested in journalism.

‘The Nieman Watchdog Project … is grounded in the belief that probing questions are essential to informed reporting.’

Gwen Lister, editor of The Namibian, an independent daily newspaper in Namibia, spoke to delegates at the UNESCO conference on “Freedom of Expression and Conflict Management in Crisis Situations and…