International Journalism

From Darkness Into Blinding Glare

What does it take to get the press to shine its searchlight in distant places?

Coverage of AIDS in Africa: The media are silent no longer.

If you had to plan an AIDS conference and you wanted to command the world’s attention, you might have chosen the city of Durban in the South African province of…

Coverage of AIDS in Africa: The media are silent no longer.

If you had to plan an AIDS conference and you wanted to command the world’s attention, you might have chosen the city of Durban in the South African province of…

Top 10 Underreported Humanitarian Stories

In December 1999, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières issued its second annual top 10 list of underreported humanitarian stories. Doctors Without Borders compiles this list to call attention to stories…

Lessons Learned in Africa

A reporter replays history so past mistakes don’t become future policy.

In Zimbabwe, the Independent Press Struggles to Survive

Legal maneuvers and financial hard times challenge press freedom.

Imprisonment and Torture of Journalists in Zimbabwe

Eventually the courts ruled the law that jailed them was unconstitutional.

A Story of Courage in South African Journalism

Blacks accepted the white-owned Rand Daily Mail as their champion.

Summer 2000: International Journalism Introduction

In the fall of 1999, Dragoljub Zarkovic, Editor in Chief of the Serbian independent weekly VREME, walked out of a conference convened by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in…

500 Words Is Rarely Enough to Tell the Story

When one of them is Ireland