International Journalism

Brutal Censorship: Targeting Russian Journalists

Russian human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva visits the grave of her slain Chechen colleague Natalia Estemirova in August 2009. Photo by Musa Sadulayev/The Associated Press.AUTHOR’S NOTEThis story was done in…
An Odd Couple: Journalists and Academics

An Odd Couple: Journalists and Academics

Partnering with Harvard’s Carr Center gave a freelance journalist the chance to continue her reporting about drug wars in Juárez, Mexico.

A Journalist’s Near-Death Experience in Chechnya

‘... I said to myself, “This is the place where I’m going to die. This is the last thing I’m going to see in my life.” ’

Fall 2010: Introduction

Foreign bureaus staffed by correspondents from a newspaper or broadcast network are now largely relics of a bygone era. As this 20th century model of reporting fades, fresh approaches to…

Journalists Who Dared to Report—Before They Fled or Were Murdered

Fatima Tlisova is an independent journalist living in exile after enduring years of intimidation and threats, harassment and arrest by government officials in the North Caucasus region of Russia. Earlier…

Teaching the Science of Journalism in China

‘... I was constantly aware that the journalism they could practice was antithetical to the principles I was teaching, or so I believed, until I learned to trust the scientific…

Turkey and the Armenian Diaspora: When ‘We’ Don’t Want to Know About ‘Them’

A lot happened after a Turkish journalist set out to tell people in her country about those who belong to the Armenian diaspora.

Foreign Reporting: It’s Not Like It Used to Be

Just a dozen years ago, the International Reporting Project’s approach was very different. Then, it trained staff reporters hoping to head to foreign bureaus; now it supports story ideas, many…
A Foreign Correspondent From India as Suspect in Pakistan

A Foreign Correspondent From India as Suspect in Pakistan

It is one of the most coveted assignments in Indian journalism, and I had dreamed about it for many years. Yet as I flew to Islamabad from New Delhi in…

Similar Paths, Different Missions: International Journalists and Human Rights Observers

As some journalists migrate to Human Rights Watch, one reason might be that they are ‘tired of treating all stories with the same pretense of aloofness—especially the ones who have…