Features

The Unreported Threat in Coverage of Anthrax

Journalists fail to focus on the longer-term dangers of antibiotic resistance.
December 15, 2001
Philip Caper

Stories the Media Decide Not to Tell

An Arab American assesses coverage from his dual perspective.
December 15, 2001
Abdelmagid Mazen

President Harry Truman Enlisted Journalists in the Cold War

Are there parallels between then and now?
December 15, 2001
Nancy Bernhard

Asking Probing Questions in a Time of National Crisis

Are journalists asking ‘the right question?’
December 15, 2001
Charles Nesson

Revealing Beauty in the Harshness of War

A woman in a burka walks near a mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif. 1990. Photo by Reza/Webistan.©On his journeys to Afghanistan, Iranian photographer Reza used his camera to document the life and…
December 15, 2001
Reza

Winter 2001: Introduction

Through the night of September 11, 2001, photographer Peter Turnley took refuge in a second-floor office in a clothing store, its windows blown out by the force of the attack…
December 15, 2001
Melissa Ludtke

Highlighting Antibiotic Resistance

RELATED ARTICLE“The Unreported Threat in Coverage of Anthrax”– Philip CaperThough coverage of the potential health hazards of antibiotic abuse and overuse did not receive nearly the prominence of illnesses and…
December 15, 2001

Independent Media Try to be Balanced and Fair in Their Coverage

Yet all parties play their ‘well-known game of intimidating the media.’
December 15, 2001
Fazal Qureshi

Reporting to a Western Audience About the Islamic World

American journalists often lack training, knowledge and sensitivity needed to tell these stories.
December 15, 2001
Geneive Abdo

Journalists Must Serve as an Independent Monitor of Power

“In 1964, the Pulitzer Prize, the most coveted award in newspapers, went to the Philadelphia Bulletin in a new reporting category…called Investigative Reporting. …the journalism establishment was acknowledging a kind…
June 15, 2001
Bill Kovach