Drones are a dream come true for cameramen. But they raise thorny ethical questions and are causing headaches for regulators. A boy controlling a drone in Sieversdorf, Germany, 8 June 2016.(Patrick Pleul/picture-alliance/dpa/AP) Drones are a cameraman’s dream. They...
An information battle between Ukraine and Russia has brought out the worst in their media machines. It’s time for a Ukraine with an independent media. Ukraine’s Jamala with her country’s flag after winning the Eurovision Song Contest, Stockholm, Sweden, 14 May...
Mainstream media depicts conflict as a violent struggle between good and bad. A Danish professor suggests a different way of thinking about conflict. Syrian refugee children in Lebanon (Wikimedia Commons/Trócaire/Eoghan Rice) Do you find it difficult to understand...
Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton — Gene Gibbons watched six presidents from one of the venerable vantage points of U.S. journalism. Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton — Gene Gibbons surveyed six presidents from one of the...
By Kate O’Rourke Writing for an online news start-up about an international issue raises ethical decisions that many college journalists do not address in their reporting experiences. The Syrian refugee crisis is difficult to cover for several reasons, the most...
By Rae Ellen Bichell In the 1970s, 52 Americans were held hostage for over a year in Iran. Once upon a time, Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro were considered to be some swell dudes in the eyes of Americans. Venezuelan and American leaders have been squabbling long enough...
By John Rogers Three Al-Jazeera journalists sent down for long jail terms in Egypt, a sentence widely seen in the West as intended as a warning to others; journalists targeted for kidnapping; journalists killed or injured. All in the pursuit of the news in difficult...
By John Mehaffey Guessing the identify of the athlete selected to light the stadium flame at the Olympic opening ceremony is an absorbing but mostly futile exercise serving mainly as a pleasant diversion in the buildup to the Games for those privileged to cover the...
Unsettling as it was to be compared with Hitler’s spin doctor, it was a reminder of the intense scrutiny to which reporting on Israel-Palestine is subjected. That headline, above mug shots of the two of us, kicked off an article in 2010 on a website dedicated to...