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“She set the standard and then raised it”

“She set the standard and then raised it”

Once referred to as a one-woman WikiLeaks, Daphne Caruana Galizia was Malta’s most formidable independent journalist, with her blog, Running Commentary, serving as a leading source of investigative reporting in…
March 19, 2018
The Israeli Press under Pressure

The Israeli Press under Pressure

Over the first few weeks of 2017, Israeli TV news viewers have been exposed to conversations Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has held in recent years with Arnon Mozes, publisher of…
February 27, 2017
5 Questions for Engin Onder

5 Questions for Engin Onder

Engin Onder was a recent college graduate in 2012 when, frustrated by the state of the media in Turkey, he joined with friends on Twitter to launch 140journos, a citizen-sustained…
January 19, 2017
Creating Community-Centered, Not Candidate-Centered, Narratives

Creating Community-Centered, Not Candidate-Centered, Narratives

In covering the local election season in Dare County, North Carolina–best known as the home of the Outer Banks–journalists can’t be accused of paying too much attention to an unending…
November 18, 2016
Fostering a Grassroots Approach to International Reporting

Fostering a Grassroots Approach to International Reporting

There’s a romance to the notion of foreign correspondence–the war-weary, adventure-seeking ink slinger. For me it was the movie “The Killing Fields” that drew me to this work, the idea…
October 27, 2016
Who Owns the News in Indonesia?

Who Owns the News in Indonesia?

A couple months before Indonesia’s presidential election last July, all the members of the VIVAnews editorial board received a strongly-worded e-mail. The sender was the popular news site’s boss, Anindra…
December 12, 2014
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?

In October, as Ebola raged out of control and unsettled much of the world, I began making plans for a reporting trip to West Africa. I had covered a minor…
December 11, 2014
5 Questions for Jill Abramson, former editor of The New York Times

5 Questions for Jill Abramson, former editor of The New York Times

Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson is currently teaching narrative nonfiction at Harvard, where she received her undergraduate degree in 1976. She was an investigative reporter and deputy…
October 6, 2014
“A Sense of Exhilaration and Possibility”

“A Sense of Exhilaration and Possibility”

In December of 2011, Turkish military jets bombed the village of Uludere, about five miles from the border with Iraq, killing 34. Was the attack a tragic mistake or a…
July 15, 2014

Small Pieces, Loosely Joined: Nicco Mele on the End of Big News

Photo by Eden BrackstoneI am not a journalist. I’m a digital guy. I am well versed in the trends of newspapers’ decline, but at the age of 35 I’ve never…
June 13, 2013