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1. Campaign Desk

   The Trials of Covering Gitmo’s Justice

   July 19, 2010 12:18 PM

   GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA – Christoph Von Marschall was waiting for a hearing to begin at a military courtroom in Guantanamo Bay when a beefy security guard called him out to inspect his writing pad. The German correspondent for <a href=http://www.tagesspiegel.de/... Continue reading

2. The Observatory

   Good COP, Bad COP

   December 22, 2009 05:35 PM

   COPENHAGEN—Political deadlock and convoluted information came with the territory for journalists covering the climate change summit in Copenhagen, where world leaders were supposed to hammer out a treaty to combat global warming. Beyond that, however, journalists’ objectives and experiences there... Continue reading

3. The Observatory

   Threats to Environmental Journalists on the Rise

   December 15, 2009 11:18 AM

   COPENHAGEN—Cherelle Jackson turned a deaf ear to the threatening calls she got after publishing the first two parts of a story about a government-sponsored development project that was proceeding despite the misgivings of an environmental impact assessment. But, when someone... Continue reading

4. Behind the News

   Postcard from Chitrakoot

   October 15, 2009 06:42 PM

   On a scorching afternoon in Chitrakoot, a woman named Tabassum walks into a small, sticky government hospital and sits poised with her notebook listening to the doctor. A reporter for Khabar Lahariya, a weekly rural newspaper that reaches 400 villages,... Continue reading

5. Behind the News

   Southern Exposure

   May 4, 2009 12:09 PM

   When Opoka Christopher Amanjur, twenty-four, joined the Juba Post, a biweekly newspaper in South Sudan, as an editor, he went through each page of the newspaper, circling and underlining the text with a red pen. “Syntax errors, poor designing,and no... Continue reading