International Journalism

The Education of a Foreign Correspondent

In 1992, when I went to Sarajevo as a young and idealistic reporter to cover the Balkan wars, there were no hostile environment courses and no PTSD de-briefings. We learned…
A New Generation of Correspondents Hustles for Work with the Help of the Web

A New Generation of Correspondents Hustles for Work with the Help of the Web

How a clutch of start-ups is supplying the foreign coverage once provided by staff correspondents
As Legacy News Outlets Retreat, Who Will Be There to Report on the World?

As Legacy News Outlets Retreat, Who Will Be There to Report on the World?

The escalating personal and financial cost of foreign reporting is changing the way correspondents cover the world
After Tiananmen Square, a ‘Dark Age’ for Press Freedom in China

After Tiananmen Square, a ‘Dark Age’ for Press Freedom in China

Chinese journalist Liu Binyan on the difficulties of reporting critically on the Communist Party after the government cracked down on pro-democracy demonstrators

In Beijing’s Newsrooms

In the first three decades in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the journalists called their newspapers “loudspeakers” and “bulletin boards” of the Communist Party and the government.…
Chasing Paper with YanukovychLeaks

Chasing Paper with YanukovychLeaks

Command and Control

Command and Control

The state of journalism in China, 25 years after Tiananmen

Evan Osnos: The Challenges of Covering China

Evan Osnos, who covered China for eight years with the Chicago Tribune and The New Yorker, spoke about the difficulty of covering modern China in the 2013 Joe Alex Morris…
Technology, Transparency and Traditional Media

Technology, Transparency and Traditional Media

How Weibo and WeChat are breaking the information monopoly
Eluding the "Ministry of Truth"

Eluding the “Ministry of Truth”

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