To be walking about a college campus with a knapsack on my back at age 39 was a great gift. It was all the greater for having had my first go at college compromised by a bus crash that broke … Read more
Dallas Morning News Mexico bureau chief Alfredo Corchado, NF ’09, recently sat down at Lippmann House to discuss his year as a fellow and his new book, “Midnight in Mexico.” An edited version of this interview appeared in … Read more
Pastureland has replaced rainforest along this stretch of the Interoceanic Highway in Brazil. Photo courtesy of CONNECTAS “Who in Latin America would be interested in transnational journalism?” was … Read more
Ten years ago I came upon the story of Segundo Villanueva, an impoverished Peruvian who, as a result of his reading of the Bible, concluded that Catholicism was a fraud. So he embarked on a search for the true church … Read more
A soldier in Arkan’s Tigers, a Serbian paramilitary squad responsible for killing thousands, kicks a Bosnian Muslim civilian in Bijeljina, Bosnia in March 1992. Photo by … Read more
Photo by John Minchello As executive editor of The Associated Press, Kathleen Carroll oversees a staff of some 2,300 journalists working in more than 100 countries. Read more
Photo by Kristyna Wentz-Graff/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Early one recent morning I fired off an e-mail to my managing editor, enraged that a story on the front … Read more
Photo by Will Steacy/From the Project “Deadline” At precisely 5:27 p.m. on the afternoon of May 13, 1985, a blue and white Pennsylvania State Police … Read more
Photo courtesy of SBS “First, I just fainted and vomited, but later it became worse and my whole body was shaking.” That’s what one conscripted policeman … Read more
