
On January 25, Mukhtar M. Ibrahim, a reporter at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, announced that he would leave the paper to formally launch the Sahan Journal, a news organization dedicated to covering immigrant communities in his state. (Sahan means “pioneer” in Somali.) A Somali immigrant himself, Ibrahim plans to focus on his community as well as...
When I met Oliver Schröm at the Berlin offices of Correctiv.org, the investigative journalism non-profit he co-founded in 2014, I was his third interview of the day. It’s been like that, he told me, with a trace of outrage in his voice, since news broke last December that he’s being investigated by prosecutors in Hamburg...
In late 2017, on the shores of southern Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people completed a grueling march to escape the campaign of rape and murder by Myanmar’s military. As they settled into huts dotting the muddy landscape, journalists from around the world descended on the camps to tell their story. “Can you speak to...
In October 2011, almost a year into the Arab Spring, Robert Reid, a regional editor for the Associated Press based in Cairo, received a call from his bosses: cut the staff in Libya. Rebels had seized the capital of Tripoli two months earlier. Moammar Gadhafi was in hiding. Previously, there had been at least AP...
Five years ago, I came across an article in The New York Times about a spate of robberies in the Bronx. It was the kind of story that has been a staple in the metro sections of newspapers since there...
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Seventy-two years ago, I worked the paper route on the west side of Montgomery, Alabama, delivering the Alabama Journal to my neighbors, who were mostly African American. One afternoon, in 1946, I met, and would eventually befriend, the son of my...
We're honored to welcome @carolrosenberg, the foremost reporter on the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to the @nytimes. https://t.co/ar0NkUROmh
— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) February 20, 2019
Egypt detained and turned back NYT's @ddknyt https://t.co/SvnxQAODm0
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) February 19, 2019
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette guild releases eyewitness accounts of publisher John Robinson Block’s “erratic, menacing and disturbing conduct” in the newsroom: https://t.co/m0Hnq4mYj1
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) February 13, 2019
NEW: More than 300 @latimes journalists oppose the company’s proposal on intellectual property, which would mark a new low in the media industry and could limit our staff’s long-standing literary and creative contributions. Read our open letter here: https://t.co/YJCIXHoLhi
— L.A. Times Guild 🦅 (@latguild) February 13, 2019
Trump has installed a room-sized "golf simulator" game at the White House, which allows him to play virtual rounds at courses all over the world by hitting a ball into a large video screen, according to two people told about the system, WaPo reports. https://t.co/F1dxfxs48e
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 13, 2019