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Remembering Anja Niedringhaus

Remembering Anja Niedringhaus

AP photographer and 2007 Nieman Fellow Anja Niedringhaus was killed in Afghanistan on April 4
April 4, 2014

Spring 2013: Class Notes

1954Harold M. Schmeck, Jr., a New York Times science writer who specialized in covering medical research, died of a heart attack in Hyannis, Massachusetts on April 1st. He was 89.…
June 24, 2013

Face to Face with the Enemy: Photos from the World’s Wars

Click the image to meet the fighters. Photos by Karim Ben KhelifaUp until a few years ago, I had spent a decade and a half of my life behind the…
June 13, 2013

Winter 2013: Class Notes

1962Sebastiaan Kleu, a South African editor and economist, died of heart failure on October 11th. He was 85.Kleu began his career in journalism on the editorial board of the Afrikaans-language…
March 12, 2013

What We Talk About When We Talk About War

War correspondent Kevin Sites explores what happens to veterans who have returned from Afghanistan and Iraq
March 12, 2013

Values and Voting Systems

In his State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama stated that, in the Middle East, the United States "will stand with citizens as they demand their universal rights and…
March 5, 2013

But What About the Veterans?

Foreign policy has taken a back seat in the U.S. presidential election, especially the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But reporters should at the very least press Barack Obama and…
October 16, 2012

At least 1,400 arrests for antiwar dissent, but who’s counting? Not the press.

The national news media almost totally ignore homefront protests of the Afghanistan war, killer drones, torture, and more, regardless of their newsworthiness. By its lack of coverage, isn’t the press…
August 27, 2012

‘Supporting the troops’ means withdrawing them

Gen. William Odom writes that opponents of the war should focus public attention on the fact that Bush’s obstinate refusal to admit defeat is causing the troops enormous psychological as…
August 27, 2012

What’s wrong with cutting and running?

Everything that opponents of a pullout say would happen if the U.S. left Iraq is happening already, says retired Gen. William E. Odom, the head of the National Security Agency…
August 24, 2012