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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Al Jazeera English

1. May 5, 2011 10:30 AM

   Lawrence Pintak on the Arab Media Revolution: A CJR Podcast

   By The Editors

   “Autocratic Arab governments have long controlled news and information with an iron hand, writes Lawrence Pintak in the cover story of CJR’s May/June issue. “No more. They try to do so in 2011, but competing versions of reality seep in—and out—through every electronic pore.” In this podcast, Pintak expands on his cover story, “Breathing Room: Toward a new Arab media”...

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2. May 2, 2011 05:10 PM

   Osama bin Laden, 54, Public Enemy No. 1

   A review of the obits

   By Lauren Kirchner

   Osama bin Laden was the world’s most powerful terrorist. He was also, undeniably, the most famous. And as befits any celebrity, when his death was announced, many news organizations were ready with a biographical piece that had been pre-written and -filed in preparation for the occasion, perhaps years beforehand. Many news reports to come out since Sunday night contain background...

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3. May 17, 2012 01:15 PM

   Why China ejected Melissa Chan

   Sending a message to the foreign press

   By Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi

   Is this the kind of reporting that got Al Jazeera correspondent Melissa Chan expelled from China last week? The foreign ministry did not give an official reason for the first expulsion of a journalist in 15 years, except to say that “the media concerned know in their heart what they did wrong." Chan's probe into “black jails”—detention centers where whistleblowers...

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