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James Foley’s murder thrust GlobalPost into the middle of an industry-wide debate about the ethics of working with the inexperienced, poorly paid freelancers who increasingly cover the world’s wars

What should news outlets do when it becomes clear they’ve treated scams as legitimate stories?

Behind every Michael Brown is a story of structural racism waiting to be told

Last summer’s Gaza war pushed reporters to their mental and physical limits

The MSNBC rising star is a lawyer-turned-journalist who wants to solve problems, not shout about them

The Atlantic writer looks to the past to confront contemporary racism

After a decade, the movement tries to prove its worth

An editor from Minnesota and a Pakistani billionaire are riding the story of their lives as Ukraine unravels

Abdullah Aboathba risks his life to be a journalist in Libya

Why it’s problematic for the press to define heroes or traitors

Coverage of the brutal practice was played down in print and on airwaves

A vocal segment of American Jewry has long believed that the paper has been unfair to Israel. Here’s why–and why they’re wrong.

The longstanding debate about whether and when a reporter can intervene in a story is rekindled in the age of inequality

Slate’s Jacob Weisberg and Harper’s John R. MacArthur on the new world

Journalism’s deathwatch is over