Books

A Remembrance of Foreign Reporting

In ‘Bad News,’ a retired network correspondent eulogizes the decline of foreign news reporting.
June 15, 2005
John Maxwell Hamilton

Passionate Criticism of Iraq War Coverage By the American Press

A journalist longs for a more ‘dispassionate discussion’ of U.S. war policy.
June 15, 2005
Tom Wicker

Getting an Up-Close View of the Military in Iraq

‘For the first time it has been possible for large numbers of journalists to observe closely the behavior of U.S. troops and how it refracted among Iraqis.’
June 15, 2005
Alissa J. Rubin

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
Edward A. Gargan

Making Visible What Is Purposely Hidden

Author Mark Dow writes about what happens, but is usually unseen, in immigration prisons.
December 15, 2004
Susana Barciela

The Evolving Role and Reputation of Arab Broadcasters

Shifting perceptions of reality in Iraq ‘expose the futility of our journalistic faith in the truth.’
December 15, 2004
Doug Struck

Portrait of a Courageous Guatemalan Journalist

‘Though the book features events from the past, it should be read as a story that can offer us much to contemplate about our present.’
December 15, 2004
Mauricio Lloreda

Securing the Right to Be Heard

A new book explores how a 1960’s case about race in Mississippi transformed television news and the Federal Communications Commission.
June 15, 2004
Kay Mills

Digging Beneath Quotes to Tell the Story

A reporter decides to ‘cover what government does instead of what politicians say.’
June 15, 2004
David Cay Johnston

Measuring the News Media’s Effectiveness

A new annual report locates plenty of contradictory trends and perceptions.
June 15, 2004
Dante Chinni