NYT Gives a (Very Reluctant) Kudos to Al Jazeera

By Ron Howell   Apr 13, 2012 at 08:42 AM

And the award for coverage of the Haitian cholera epidemic goes to . . . No, not The New York... More

A Pulled Scoop Shows U.S. Fought to Keep Haitian Wages Down (UPDATED)

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 3, 2011 at 01:06 PM

The Nation has a scoop—or had, actually—from Wikileaks cables showing that the Obama administration pressured Haiti not to raise its... More

Best of 2010: The Observatory

Curtis Brainard picks the top stories from 2010

By Curtis Brainard   Dec 29, 2010 at 01:11 PM

1. “New” Media Crucial in Aftermath of Haitian Earthquake With standard telephone, radio, and television communications disabled, “new” media platforms... More

Building Haiti’s Post-Quake Media

Postcard from Port au Prince

By William Wheeler   Aug 11, 2011 at 03:08 PM

While I was reporting in Haiti last year, over the course of a few months, the Port-au-Prince guesthouse where I... More

Haiti Coverage and “Disaster Porn”

Cholera epidemic offers convenient B-roll for nightly newscasts

By Maura R. O'Connor   Nov 19, 2010 at 11:22 AM

Last month I was reporting a story on the opening of a mango warehouse in Haiti’s countryside when a fellow... More

On Haiti

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jan 11, 2011 at 04:19 PM

It was a year ago, tomorrow, that Haiti experienced a devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake. The AP's Jonathan M. Katz, the... More

Two Years Later, Haitian Earthquake Death Toll in Dispute

Journalists can do a better job reporting controversial numbers in disaster zones

By Maura R. O'Connor   Jan 12, 2012 at 01:04 PM

Fifteen miles north of the National Palace in Port au Prince, along Haiti’s azure coastline, is a place called Titanyen.... More