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“Unite and Resist Every and All Attempts to Silence Us”

“Unite and Resist Every and All Attempts to Silence Us”

Rappler, a leading online news website in the Philippines, is fighting a legal battle for its survival, a danger signal to media freedom in the Southeast Asian country that used to pride…
February 15, 2018
“Duterte has said that a free press is a privilege, not a right. That's something very worrying. A free press is a right guaranteed by our own constitution.”

“Duterte has said that a free press is a privilege, not a right. That’s something very worrying. A free press is a right guaranteed by our own constitution.”

Filipino journalist John Nery on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s propagandistic use of social media and his attacks on Rappler and other news outlets
February 14, 2018

Identifying Mexico’s Missing Persons

Sandra Barrón Ramírez, a 2017 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow, is designing a universal data standard to organize information about missing persons in Mexico
February 12, 2018
El Riesgo No Sólo es Publicar, es Dónde Pisar

El Riesgo No Sólo es Publicar, es Dónde Pisar

Read in English.  El 21 de enero el grupo de WhatsApp se saturó de mensajes por una nueva emergencia: un grupo de hombres armados detuvo, amenazó y despojó de sus…
February 12, 2018
The Risks to Mexican Journalists Start Before You Even Step Out of Your Car

The Risks to Mexican Journalists Start Before You Even Step Out of Your Car

Translated by John Gibler. Leer en español. The WhatsApp group filled with messages from a new emergency: a group of armed men stopped three reporters, threatened them, and stole their cameras and…
February 12, 2018

The Science of Journalism

I came into journalism in a roundabout way. I was a voracious reader as a child, growing up in middle-class Nairobi, partly as a retreat from a difficult home situation…
February 8, 2018

Paying Attention to Word Choice When Writing about Addiction

You don’t have to go too far back in time to find the word “junkie” used to refer to someone who injects heroin, even by outlets that steer clear of…
January 24, 2018
Turning the Focus from Opioid Addiction to Treatment and Recovery

Turning the Focus from Opioid Addiction to Treatment and Recovery

These days, you’d be hard-pressed to open a news app, turn on the TV, or check your social media feeds without coming across a story about how the opioid epidemic…
January 24, 2018
“As a recovering addict, I know those pictures live forever”

“As a recovering addict, I know those pictures live forever”

A photographer who once was addicted to heroin on how to fairly and ethically depict addiction
January 24, 2018
Don’t Shy Away from Dealing Forthrightly with Race

Don’t Shy Away from Dealing Forthrightly with Race

Editorial decisions frequently take into account race and identity—even when we pretend they don’t
January 16, 2018