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 …
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Malaysian airlines story leads to speculative reports
Recent news coverage of the missing Malaysian airlines flight has led some to question the media’s role in the crisis. Although ample coverage of the missing plan exists, it’s still unclear exactly what happened to …
Poynter: “Newtown’s media blackout forces journalists to do their jobs”
Writing for Poynter.org’s New Ethics of Journalism page, Kelly McBride examines how the self-imposed media blackout among the residents of Newtown, Conn., has impacted media reporting of the first anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy …