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Out of Tragedy in Turkey Emerges a Journalistic Mission

‘… after my father was murdered, our family founded the Ugur Mumcu Investigative Journalism Foundation … to encourage young people who are concerned about social problems and have ideals of…
April 20, 2011

Spring 2011: Introduction

Barriers to reporting on corruption are numerous. Pushing past them can be risky, especially in countries where powerful interests are entrenched in business, media organizations, and government. Arrest. Legal action.…
March 14, 2011

Costs That Investors Seem Willing to Ignore

In 2001 free speech advocates demonstrated in Germany against Gazprom, a major Russian energy concern, when it took over a Russian TV company. Gazprom is partly owned by a German…
March 11, 2011

China’s Propaganda Department: New Restrictions on the Press

On January 5, China’s state-run news agency Xinhua reported on the annual meeting of the media propaganda ministers. A few weeks later, China Media Project editor David Bandurski wrote on…
March 11, 2011

There’s Something to Be Said for Longevity

‘… the hardest part of my job often isn’t getting people to talk. It’s sifting through the streaming fire hose of news to figure out which stories truly warrant more…
December 15, 2010

The Science Beat: Riding a Wave, Going Somewhere

‘While I can’t figure out who is paying a lot of these science reporters, the quantity of what they produce does not seem to have fallen off nearly as much…
December 15, 2010

The Guardian Brings Scientists as Bloggers Into the Mix

RELATED ARTICLES“The Science Beat: Riding a Wave, Going Somewhere”– Charles Petit“Guardian Blogger Spoofs Science Journalism– Jonathan SeitzEarly this fall The Guardian took an innovative approach to expanding its coverage of…
December 15, 2010

Eclectic, Entertaining and Educational—The 21st Century Science Beat

‘While the science beat is old—dating back to even before Sputnik—the approach we take is new. ’
December 15, 2010

The Sometimes Bumpy Nonprofit Ride Into Digital Foreign Correspondence

‘We began with the naïve assumption that if we covered the costs of getting journalists to the field they would be able to earn a decent income through placement of…
September 7, 2010
Into Africa—With a Newspaper in Iowa

Into Africa—With a Newspaper in Iowa

With International Reporting Project support, ‘my story reminded Iowans that it’s not just the large coastal papers that bring them news from abroad.’
September 7, 2010