Journalism
America Can’t Surrender its Voice in the Middle East
The Middle East Broadcasting Networks’ (MBN) journalism counters anti-American narratives in a difficult and strategic region. For twenty years, Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc. (MBN)—one of four Congressionally authorized platforms...
I am Imprisoned in Azerbaijan. My Crime? Journalism
Americans and the free world must take notice: a threat to press freedom anywhere is a threat to press freedom everywhere. The morning of my arrest felt like any other...
Combating Russia’s Global Disinformation Campaign
For years, Russia’s main tactic to compete with Western news media has been to create alternative outlets, like its television channel RT (previously Russia Today) and the Sputnik multimedia news...
Remembering Zareer Masani
On August 9, Dr. Zareer Masani passed away. An eminent historian, he dedicated much of his later life to providing a holistic view of the British Empire in India, countering...
The Night The Francis Scott Key Bridge Came Down
It was the type of tragedy that rippled across the pond of humanity and contaminated every corner of its basin. Its surreal presence yielded chaos, crisis, and panic in the...
William Whitworth and the Lost Spirit of Journalism
William Whitworth, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic from 1981 to 2000, died at the age of eighty-seven last week. If his name escapes you, that was part of his design....
Israel Says ‘High Possibility’ Its Military Killed Shireen Abu Akleh
Back in May, Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American, was killed while covering an Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the West Bank. Since then, the circumstances...
Hamas Tells Media to Lie: What Should the Media Tell its Readers?
In a stunning expose’, a recent Associated Press article revealed a Hamas directive to journalists not to report on Gazans killed by Palestinian rockets that misfired and killed local families rather than...
Crime and Punishment: Russian Journalist Fined For Anti-War Posts
A Moscow court ordered Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who briefly achieved fame in the West for holding up a sign condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during a live television broadcast...
Afghan Media Is Collapsing
In a heavily guarded street in Kabul’s green zone near a bunch of Western embassies, a TV station was founded just a few years after the 2001 fall of the...
Report: Taliban’s War on Journalists Closes Half of Media Outlets
A survey of Afghan media outlets and journalists conducted by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Afghan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) revealed that nearly half of Afghanistan’s independent media organizations had closed...
The Scorpion on the Potomac: Navigating Drew Pearson’s Washington
Donald A. Ritchie, The Columnist: Leaks, Lies, and Libel in Drew Pearson’s Washington (New York, NY: Oxford University Press). 367 pp., $34.95. AS A native Washingtonian in a politically aware...