On the Job
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July 1, 2010 05:53 PM
A World of Trouble
Who’s a journalist? In today’s war zones, the answer matters.
In November 2008, the Pakistani army launched its first major offensive against militants in the tribal areas of the country. I was working as a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor and had arrived in the border town of Peshawar from Islamabad, prepared to enter the war zone with a military unit as an embedded journalist. It was not...
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January 27, 2009 09:30 AM
The Wikinews Ace
Why Shimon Peres sat down with David Shankbone
One morning in December 2007, a law-school dropout named David Shankbone sat on a couch in Shimon Peres’s office in Jerusalem. He’d been invited into the Israeli president’s inner sanctum for an exclusive interview with the elder statesman. Peres reclined on a velvet chair next to Shankbone, nibbling cookies while he talked in his soporific baritone about the future of...
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Desks
The Audit Business
- BusinessWeek Goes Inside a Critical Hacking Scandal Meeting A wonderfully reported and written piece
- Audit Notes: Off the Hamster Wheel, The Dumb Money, iPad Newspapers
The Observatory Science
- What Drives Public Opinion About Climate Change? Politicians, economy more influential than media coverage, study says
- The Presidential Energy Narrative Campaign coverage takes on a green hue
Campaign Desk Politics & Policy
- Some Mistakes at MoneyWatch A little more homework needed on Social Security, please
- It’s Caucus Day in Colorado: Where’s the Content? Campaign presented as theater in the Denver Post
