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The challenge of reporting the Khashoggi story
Since October 2, when Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist, disappeared inside the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, horrific—and unverified—details have cascaded from the Turkish press to our own. Fifteen men brought a bone saw through Istanbul airport in the middle of the night, we heard. The consulate hurriedly repainted rooms in the days after his...
The ‘North Korea of Africa’? Not so fast.
For years, news outlets in Europe and North America have aimed to cover African places and people in terms familiar to their audiences. Such comparisons are usually well-meaning and may help readers connect with stories. But they can do more harm than good, by suggesting that Africa requires an external—and very often Western—benchmark to be...
How extensive restrictions have shaped the story in Xinjiang, China
From the moment reporters arrive in Xinjiang province, a remote region in northwest China, they are shadowed by security officials. Sometimes, it’s just a few. For reporters representing prominent publications, it can be nine or ten. Most of the time, the officials do their best to blend into the background—they wear plain clothes—but they’re always...
To teach people about climate change, feed them journalism
There’s a story behind every ingredient that goes into our meals—each plant or animal we consume carries the weight of the place where it was raised, the way it was cultivated, the history of its breeding. And as climate change alters the very nature of our planetary ecology—threatening certain staples and delicacies and modifying how...
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The US government continues its crackdown on leakers to media.
— 𝔍𝔬𝔰𝔢 𝔓𝔞𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔯𝔶 (@Jose_Pagliery) October 17, 2018
The FBI has arrested Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards for giving a news reporter copies of US Treasury “suspicious activity reports” about Trump’s inner circle and Russians.Advertisers allege Facebook failed to disclose key metric error for more than a year and claim scale of the miscalculation was far worse than understood. https://t.co/lq9CSqvh43 via @WSJ
— VranicaWSJ (@VranicaWSJ) October 16, 2018Facebook is banning misinformation on voting in the U.S. midterms
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https://t.co/0OgI5mjEjm"The Saudis are preparing a report that will conclude Jamal Khashoggi's death was the result of an interrogation that went wrong, one that was intended to lead to his abduction from Turkey, according to two sources." https://t.co/ohkvYMWr60
— Society of Professional Journalists (@spj_tweets) October 15, 2018CBS directors launched an investigation into misconduct at their own company. Now, that investigation is examining the conduct of individual board members. Great deets from @keachhagey and @JBFlint: https://t.co/jKVXJCmhPb
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