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‘Why has the WMD story been so difficult for the press to investigate and tell?’

War and Terror“Government has no legitimate claim to sole control of secrecy decisions, even on matters of common defense,” Barton Gellman, a Washington Post project reporter observed when he spoke…

Much of what we have learned, and of what we teach, is included in the book I co-wrote with William Coté of Michigan State University called “Covering Violence: A Guide…

Several examples demonstrate how the press and government officials interact when it comes to secrecy.

RELATED ARTICLE“The ‘Front’ in Libya”– Iason Athanasiadis Anja Niedringhaus is a photographer with The Associated Press. She was a 2007 Nieman Fellow. Libyan rebels retreat as mortars from Muammar Qaddafi’s…

Shooting in Libya has been very frustrating because when you’re on the “front” you feel very acutely that it is in no way whatsoever this war’s real front. When the…

They fail to ‘fulfill their obligation to the public interest as counterweights in the American system.’

‘If some of the embedded U.S. journalists are showboating, the anchors home are cheering them on.’

A media column tracks coverage and commentary about the war in Iraq.

‘It is evident that objective journalism has been lost in the “us” and “them” scenario ….’