Global Journalist

May 2008

Story Archives

Second Quarter 2007

Jun. 2007: Lost & Found in Ecuador

When freelancer Abraham Mahshie came to Ecuador he expected some difficulties working as a foreign correspondent, but he was unprepared for the complications caused by the theft of his computer and camera.

Jun. 2007: Misunderstood, maybe -- but a 'yawner,' never

On TV complex issues are reduce to simple sound-bytes, and even the color of your ties or the way you wear your hair may make people wonder if you are telling them the truth. Miami Herald columnist Uri Dromi, tells us how he learned to prepare, psychologi

May. 2007: A Dry Season: Faces of Darfur

During he past four years, more than 200,000 people have died in Darfur, victims of an ongoing government campaign of genocide. Three humanitarian relief workers who have spent the past 18 months in West Darfur have created The Temoignage Project to colle

Apr. 2007: Armed with a camera and a mission

American freelance journalist William Nessen first went to Indonesia to cover the fall of Indonesian dictator Suharto in 2000 and soon found himself compelled by an oppressed people and on the front lines of a guerilla movement against the Indonesian gove

Apr. 2007: Meeting Resistance: A Conversation with Steve Connors and Molly Bingham.

Apr. 2007: The Gambia in the Hands of Jammeh: The Media, Human Rights and Foreign Policy

Since President Yahya Jammeh took control of the Gambia in a coup in 1994, he has become a self-declared enemy of free press and his country's authority on truth.

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