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Connecting Threads of Individual Pain With Societal Responsibility

From Northern Ireland, Chile and Kosovo come stories of the struggle people have in healing from terror and torture when political accountability and reconciliation are absent.
December 15, 2009

From Journalism to Self-Publishing Books

‘Our experience with print-on-demand books offers promising and challenging news.’
December 10, 2009

Educating Ourselves, So We Can Teach Our Students

In mid-August, after returning from the AEJMC annual conference in Boston, Cindy Royal, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State University shared her…
September 17, 2009

Engaging Youth in Social Media: Is Facebook the New Media Frontier?

A research project creates experimental applications for Facebook to learn whether the news habit can be fostered online and lead to civic engagement.
September 16, 2009

‘We Know Where You Live’

Working for a Western magazine in Iran, a journalist finds that he has acquired some surprisingly close acquaintances—from the ministry of intelligence. And strangely, they are all called Mr. Mohammadi.
June 24, 2009

The Human Lessons: They Lie at the Core of Reporting in Iran

‘When we work in countries without press freedoms, we scarcely know the pressures on the people we encounter, the complexities of their motivations, the dimensions of their fears.’
June 15, 2009

Imprisoning Journalists Silences Others

While most Iranian journalists have to operate with extreme caution, foreign journalists can be more frank on the issues they face in Iran.
June 12, 2009

Fear and Self-Censorship in Vladimir Putin’s Russia

‘One bargains with oneself. How much can I sacrifice before I lose respect for myself as a journalist?’
June 12, 2009

Coming to a Political Beat Near You: Policy Wars Over Global Warming

As intense partisan politics begin to infuse the climate change story, what do journalists and journalism students need to know?
March 23, 2009

The Ties That Bind: Newspapers and Nonfiction Books

What reporters do in their daily reporting can become the foundation for compelling storytelling in a book. So what happens when newsrooms shrink and support for long-term beat assignments dries…
December 23, 2008