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Consequences Occur When Reporters Testify

A reporter urges journalists to be better watchdogs of the war crimes tribunal process.

Testing Different Expectations of Journalism

An American journalist wrestles with the request to provide evidence to a war crimes tribunal.

Documenting How INS Detainees Are Treated

Facing imminent deportation back to his native Guatemala for a criminal conviction, Ronald Zetino is visited by his young son and family. The Mira Loma jail is rare in that…

Why Reporters Should Want to Cover Immigration

It’s a big and important story. Editors don’t interfere much. And the public cares about the issues.

The Beat Is a Tougher One Today

Reporting on the environment requires more and better training of those who do it.

Radio Uses Sound and Script to Transport Listeners to a Place

‘In environmental reporting, nothing is more elemental than the sense of place.’

Environment Journalists Don’t Get Much Respect

‘… the environment beat is so far down the journalistic pecking order that if it were alive it would be an amoeba.’

Winter 2002: Introduction

Four decades ago reporting on the environment was what Paul Rogers, natural resources and environment writer at the San Jose Mercury News, calls “a fringe pursuit.” He writes that “the…

The Oregonian Investigates Mistreatment of Foreigners

Reporters uncover ‘a world of racism, sexism and questionable conduct.’

The Consequences of Corporate Ownership

‘Our democracy is in crisis from the loss of independent voices serving as its watchdog.’