Two global prizes supported by News Decoder recognize projects in the UK and U.S. that fight fake news and gun violence. (Photo courtesy of The Student View) A UK not-for-profit promoting media literacy and a U.S. team reporting on gun violence have won global prizes,...
Barry Moody worked for more than four decades covering some of the world’s biggest stories. It was variously tragic, exhausting and exhilarating. This is the sixth in a series of profiles of News-Decoder correspondents. Barry Moody can tell you firsthand about...
From school paper to the Wall Street Journal, Betty Wong covered major stories including the 1990s stock boom and the Great Recession. Betty Wong never expected to become a journalist.As a teenager attending a rigorous, science-oriented high school in New York City,...
Elaine Monaghan dodged death in Albania and skirted bombs in Northern Ireland. A journalist’s job? To ask the right questions. This is the second in a series of profiles of News-Decoder correspondents. Dressed in a red T-shirt and jeans, youthful Elaine Monaghan...
Maggie Fox witnessed the toppling of a president and war in the Balkans. For this News-Decoder correspondent, journalism “is the coolest job ever.” Fox holding a T-shirt reading “Another Meddling Foreign Journalist” in the Philippines in 1986 This is the...
Journalists practice a dangerous craft and now are accused of peddling fake news. With the world facing annihilation, is it worth plying that trade? Photographer Shah Marai, among several Afghan journalists killed in a suicide bombing, is buried in Afghanistan, 30...
We gossip today as people gossiped centuries ago. But the volume and speed of information overwhelm us — the downside of the digital revolution. “Flemish Proverbs,” by Pieter Brueghel the Younger (Wikimedia Commons) The year is 1789. You and I pace under a large...
New York goes into lock-down every year for the UN General Assembly, which attracts world leaders — and sends photographers like me scrambling. UN Secretary-General António Guterres and U.S. President Donald Trump (Photo by Enrique Shore) News-Decoder...
Facebook and Twitter were caught napping when Russian agents tried to sway the U.S. 2016 elections. Now, they are declaring war on disinformation. An empty chair reserved for Google’s parent Alphabet, which refused to send its top executive, is seen as Facebook COO...
Recently I went to Russia. I discovered that Russians view their president, Vladimir Putin, in a much different light than many of us from the West. Russian President Vladimir Putin during a friendly soccer match, Moscow, 28 June 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Safonov)...