Uncategorized Government Clampdowns on Newspapers Send Reporting Online In Belarus, with many people not able to use their computers to read about what is happening, ‘Online is not yet a worthy substitute for newspapers.’ June 15, 2006 Andrei Khrapavitski Death Threats Are Sent to Try to Stop Reporting ‘If I kept writing, I thought, the threats would eventually stop because they weren't working.’ June 15, 2006 Kim Bolan Risking Relationships as a Measure of Courage ‘Questioning the reasons for the war meant not only going against the President's policy but against the beliefs of many people I knew and respected.’ June 15, 2006 Sheryl McCarthy Courage Can Mean Pushing Gradually Against Boundaries in Iran ‘Courage is not always about overcoming immediate dangers or reaching immediate ends.’ June 15, 2006 Omid Memarian The Embrace of Principled Stands During the civil rights era, a few newspaper owners, editors and reporters risked their lives and livelihoods by supporting Supreme Court rulings and desegregation. June 15, 2006 Gene Roberts Seeking Journalistic Courage in Washington, D.C. ‘The disturbing trend is that more and more of these informational offerings are nothing but PR peddled as “news.”’ June 15, 2006 Walter Pincus Investigative Journalism Doesn’t Win Many Friends ‘… just about everything has been tried to discourage these kinds of investigations by those who are unhappy with what we find.’ June 15, 2006 Charles Lewis Courage of the Wise and Patient Kind ‘Our craft demands such courage if we are to find a constructive way through the many difficulties that challenge us today.’ June 15, 2006 Geneva Overholser Public Support Wanes, Some Journalists ‘Despite the low esteem in which the news media are held today, some of the best, most courageous news coverage is being produced.’ June 15, 2006 Barry Sussman H.L. Mencken: Courage in a Time of Lynching Subscriptions were cancelled, threats made on him and Sunpapers’ staff, and advertisers’ products were boycotted, but Mencken's words were published. June 15, 2006 Marion Elizabeth Rodgers Previous 1 … 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 … 34 Next