If Congress de-funds NPR, let’s create NGR — National Global Radio
Okay, these might not be the best of times to be at NPR — unless you are an adherent of the PT Barnum school of promotion that believes: “Any publicity is good publicity.” Now, I have my own opinion of...
View ArticleDorothy Parvaz — friend and fellow journalist, now deported to Iran
Maybe you’ve heard about it already, but former Seattle PI reporter and columnist Dorothy Parvaz went missing in Syria weeks ago. UPDATE: Syrian authorities, who finally admitted arresting her have now...
View ArticleMalawi crackdown on protests, journalists and my friend Collins
Last I heard, my friend and colleague Collins Mtika — a journalist in Malawi — was in jail. There have been protests in Malawi over high food prices, corruption in government (remember how the...
View ArticleJailed Malawi journalist Collins Mtika set free, for now
My friend and journalist colleague in Malawi, Collins Mtika, was released from jail yesterday. I took notice of Collins’ arrest last week thanks to Sika Holman (here is her blog on the Malawi...
View ArticleJeffrey Gettleman of the New York Times is screaming at you
To pay attention to the massive catastrophe still unfolding in the Horn of Africa! Traditionally, at least within the mainstream media, journalists are supposed to behave as if they are neutral...
View ArticleGuest Post: The fragile promise of peace in Colombia
This is a guest post by Katherine McKeon, a UW communications major who recently returned to Seattle after working this summer for Reuters in Bogota, Colombia. The promise of peace talks between the...
View ArticleA chat with NY Times’ David Bornstein about ‘solutions’ journalism
David Bornstein is what many would consider a rare bird — an optimistic and forward-looking journalist. Bornstein is also one of my favorite writers on aid and development issues, for the New York...
View ArticleThe Problems with Western Journalists in Africa
Western journalists were rightly criticized for the overall level of coverage surrounding the Kenyan elections. However, it is a case that is a part of what seems to be the rule rather than the...
View ArticleUganda’s Brazen Press Crackdown Continues
Staff of the independent Ugandan newspaper the Daily Monitor are without an office as a standoff with Ugandan police entered its 10th day. All over a letter written by a general in the Ugandan army...
View ArticleMuch Ado about Power and Rice
Donilon, Obama, Rice and Power walk in the Rose Garden of the White House, yesterday. Evan Vucci If there were such a thing as a foreign policy earthquake, the magnitude of yesterday’s White House...
View ArticleLies, Damned Lies, Latin America and the Media
On this week’s podcast, I chat with Keane Bhatt about media reporting gone awry with systemic inaccuracies and bias. And we’re not just talking about Fox News. Bhatt has zeroed in on some of the most...
View ArticleJournalists should not be the public relations team for NGOs
MSF press briefing. Médecins Sans Frontières The following post is by Mike Jennings and originally appeared on his blog. When I read a review of a hotel in the travel section of my favorite newspaper,...
View ArticleWe can thank Maine hippies for NPR global health reporter Jason Beaubien
What makes for the best radio reporting on global health and development? We can credit some hippies in Maine. Continue reading →
View ArticleNewsweek’s racist and misinformed Ebola cover story, say some
This week, a drawn chimp features as the sole image on the cover of Newsweek. The article and cover image now face two serious charges from academics, activists and diplomats. They say that the image...
View ArticleObnoxious freedom: Editorial cartoonist David Horsey on the Charlie Hebdo...
By DAVID HORSEY, special to Humanosphere I have received many messages of solidarity from friends and readers in the couple of days since Islamic terrorists stormed into the Paris office of the...
View ArticleMedia and NGOs: Is there a growing tension?
In the first part of a multi-part series, we look at attitudes from journalists and aid workers about the relationship between NGOs and the media. The relationship between journalists and the subjects...
View ArticleMedia and NGOs: Gates strikes partnership to promote annual letter
This is the second part in a series on the relationship between NGOs and the media. For the month of February, Bill Gates served as guest editor for The Verge, an online news site. The site published...
View ArticleMedia and NGOs: 12 leading reporters on aid and development
This is the third part in a series on the relationship between NGOs and the media. The international aid and development sector is sprawling and somewhat difficult to define. It means that the...
View ArticleJournalism becoming deadly proposition in South Sudan
Life for journalists in embattled South Sudan is an increasingly dangerous proposition. A reporter was killed last week, just days after President Salva Kiir issued a thinly veiled threat at local...
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