In Srinagar, the largest city in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, a small five-kilometer stretch along the high-security zone from Gupkar Road to the state secretariat of Indian-administered Kashmir has become the center of media activity. Every day, … Read more
Read in English. No hay crímenes más violentos en Chile que aquellos contra sus mujeres. En el país con menos homicidios en Latinoamérica, y uno de los más seguros, una mujer es … Read more
This essay is adapted from Christopher R. Martin’s 2019 book, “No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class” (Cornell University Press). In June 1951, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard held a two-day conference for … Read more
Five years ago, I was nearly killed by a man I shared a home and two small children with. As I lay in the dark, waiting for it to be safe to leave, I … Read more
Translated by Anne Henochowicz On February 19, 2013, when lawyer Guo Jianmei was on a business trip, her phone rang. The moment had arrived for the review of Li Yan’s death sentence. Related Reading … Read more
When Melissa Jeltsen Googled Lorena Bobbitt’s name a few years ago, she was surprised to learn that the woman known for cutting off her husband’s penis in 1993 had started a charity to help victims of domestic … Read more
A young boy named Charlie pauses on his tricycle beside his backyard pool, mouth agape in a wail as his father grabs his half-naked mother. Two-year-old Memphis sobs as … Read more
Translated by Dick Cluster. Leer en español. There are no crimes in Chile more violent than the ones committed against women. In the country … Read more
In their press freedom ranking of 180 countries, Reporters Without Borders this year named Norway its valedictorian. So free is the country from censorship, political pressure, or violence against journalists, that the headline atop the annual … Read more
Kate Sosin and Nico Lang landed in Anchorage in March 2018 and got into a Lyft to their hotel. The Lyft driver asked what the pair was doing in town. “I was stupid enough to say, … Read more
