In “Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display the Dead,” being published November 21 by NYU Press, social scientist Jessica M. Fishman probes a double standard in the U.S. media regarding images of death … Read more
On September 19, as Hurricane Maria gathered strength and Puerto Ricans took shelter, bracing for the worst, a team of NBC News reporters whose social media accounts suggest they’re based in Pasadena, New York, and London, filed … Read more
In 2002, Mark Schleifstein and a team of reporters in New Orleans wrote “Washing Away,” a five-part series in The Times-Picayune that predicted the devastation of Hurricane Katrina three years later. When the series ran, the public was … Read more
A tight focus on individuals allowed a U.S. journalist and photographer to present ‘these people in scenes that began to form chapters in a narrative.’ Read more
‘When no reporters, photographers or news editors come from the fishing community, it is unlikely this community’s problems will be understood ….’ Read more
“When the tsunami hit Thailand’s coastal line … nobody in this country would have thought that Mother Nature could inflict such casualties to the land of smile.” With those words, The Nation’s managing editor, Kavi Chongkittavorn, opens our collection … Read more
