Author

Edward A. Gargan

Edward Gargan, a 2005 Nieman Fellow, covered the Iraq War for Newsday and now lives in Beijing where he teaches at The Beijing Center for Chinese Studies.

News From Iraq: From Spinning to Reporting

After working as Central Command’s spokesman for the war in Iraq, Josh Rushing became a reporter for Al Jazeera and writes about his transformative journey.
December 15, 2007

Seeing What Others Failed to Notice

Reporting from Baghdad, Jon Lee Anderson ‘offers a profound antidote to the simplistic impulses of American television news ….’
June 15, 2005