Brian Williams started Monday at an anchor desk at MSNBC. It’s his first on-camera job since his suspension and later removal from the NBC evening news desk for ethical violations. Williams’ return has been mostly …
Month: September 2015
Charlie Hebdo Controversy Raises Ethical Questions on a Global Scale
The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is notorious for causing controversy. Long before the January 2015 attack on the publication’s journalists, cartoonists were raising eyebrows with images that some people found to be distasteful at …
Sensationalism or a Call to Action: Covering the Syrian Refugee Crisis
I met a Syrian refugee this June. Sitting across from me in a crowded Beirut café, the young man told me how he’d escaped from Syria and started working as a news fixer in Lebanon—arranging …