Journalism

The first episode of PGI’s new podcast series is now available! Our first show features an interview with Curtis Brainard of the Columbia Journalism Review on the media coverage surrounding the devastating earthquake in Haiti last month. Brainard speaks with Brianna Lee on how the coverage has been so far, the reporter/physician controversy, and...
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On Friday, three bloggers and activists in Cuba were detained and beaten by the Cuban authorities. Yoani Sanchez, Claudia Cadelo, and Omar Luís Pardo Laz were dragged into a car, violently beaten, and left in the street. Global Voices Online translates Sánchez’s own harrowing account of the incident: We were left aching, lying in a...
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To follow up on the David Rohde story, here’s a great interview he had on NPR’s Fresh Air yesterday with Terry Gross. In other news, last week, a five-week legal battle between oil trader Trafigura and the UK’s Guardian newspaper came to a close when Trafigura ended a secret injunction with the news organization. How...
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David Rohde, the New York Times journalist who was kidnapped by the Taliban and held for 7 months has a five-part series documenting his terrifying ordeal. The series ran all last week in the Times, and despite the terrible circumstances of Rohde’s kidnapping, it’s an incredibly exciting and gripping account to read. Joel Simon of...
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Reporters Without Borders has published its 2009 Press Freedom Index, documenting the current state of media repression and threats to independent and critical reporting worldwide. One of the report’s major findings for 2009 was that Europe, long considered a model for free press, was slipping in press freedom rankings. France, Slovakia, and Italy were...
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There is a great article by John Burns in today’s New York Times about the duties of journalists to cover wars comprehensively, in light of the recent case of NYT reporter Stephen Farrell. Farrell was captured by the Taliban outside Kabul, Afghanistan last week. A British raid was sent to free them earlier this...
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We all hear stories that capture us — news stories so shocking that we’re sometimes moved to take action — but eventually the story fades or some other shocking release takes its place. The problem is that this isn’t always the case for the news subjects. Often we’ve moved on to new stories...
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