“The Risks are Worth Taking as Long as Nothing Happens”

Four NYT journalists captured in Libya speak at Columbia

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 1, 2011 at 09:04 AM

On Thursday evening, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the SPJ hosted photojournalists Lynsey Addario and Tyler Hicks, reporter... More

WSJ Shoe Leather and Privacy Series Pays Off In Libya

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 30, 2011 at 01:16 PM

The Wall Street Journal gets a big scoop today on the ground in Libya, reporting that Western companies helped Qaddafi... More

A Grand Year for Free Speech

Gaddafi’s death just one indicator of the global surge in free expression

By Justin D. Martin   Oct 21, 2011 at 04:52 PM

Not since the disintegration of the Soviet Union have so many opponents of free expression quickly fallen from executive power.... More

A Letter From a Pressman in Tripoli

By Joel Meares   Mar 8, 2011 at 03:18 PM

From Tripoli, The Guardian’s Peter Beaumont has a thoughtful report on what conditions are like on the ground for foreign... More

Assessing Al Jazeera

What’s your general impression of Al Jazeera English?

By The Editors   Feb 22, 2011 at 03:24 PM

As revolutions ripple through the Middle East, Al Jazeera has kept its cameras rolling. Few American cable networks offer Al... More

Covering “Crazy”

“Goldwater rule” overlooked in articles about Qaddafi, Sheen, and Loughner

By Curtis Brainard   Mar 30, 2011 at 12:57 PM

The media has a penchant for psychoanalysis that often gets news outlets into trouble. From killers to celebrities to dictators,... More

Four Times Journalists Recall Captivity in Libya

By Joel Meares   Mar 23, 2011 at 10:23 AM

There is much to shock and rattle you in today’s first-hand account from the New York Times journalists captured—and now... More

Libya and the Arab Street

What do ordinary Arabs think? Let’s ask them

By Michael Massing   Mar 25, 2011 at 01:17 PM

On Wednesday, I went to hear Ayman Mohyeldin, the Cairo correspondent for Al Jazeera English, speak at the office of... More

Misinformation On Killed and Injured Photographers

Sad news brings a lesson on caution

By Joel Meares   Apr 20, 2011 at 03:59 PM

There has been much confusion in the wake of reports that documentary filmmaker Tim Hetherington was killed today in... More

Obama Leaves the Pundits Wanting More

Libya speech did little to clear up the unclear

By Joel Meares   Mar 29, 2011 at 01:08 PM

If the president had hoped last night’s speech would quash claims that the purpose and objective of our intervention... More

The Story of the Gaddafi Story

How news of the Libyan leader’s demise spread on Twitter

By Craig Silverman   Oct 20, 2011 at 02:14 PM

Earlier this morning news began to spread that something major was happening in Libya. At first it seemed that a... More

Three Journalists Released From Captivity In Libya

By Joel Meares   May 20, 2011 at 09:47 AM

In the opening shot of our May/June magazine we made mention of four journalists that had been captured in Libya... More

Tributes from Colleagues to Killed War Photographers

By Joel Meares   Apr 21, 2011 at 10:36 AM

With the news that documentarian and photographer Tim Hetherington died yesterday in Libya, and, later, the confirmation that photographer... More

War Is A Worry, Not Just the Liberal Ones

A look at Ross Douthat’s take on Libya

By Joel Meares   Mar 21, 2011 at 12:36 PM

Two heavy hitters from the left and right are struggling with the weekend’s (aerial) incursion into Libya. Both the Times’s... More

What a Year!

A foreign editor looks back in wonder at 2011

By Thomas Nagorski   Dec 30, 2011 at 02:41 PM

On a weekend last January I sent Alex Marquardt, our newly minted Mideast correspondent, to cover a protest in Egypt.... More