(May/June 2011) Before there was Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or even Al Jazeera, there was Hama, Syria. It was 1982 and an anti-government protest was put down with ferocious violence. The Syrian government simply destroyed whole sections of the city, leaving at least ten thousand people dead. But the slaughter went unreported in that closed society. [...]
Breathing Room: Toward a New Arab Media (Columbia Journalism Review Cover Story)
October 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Journalism Education in the Pakistani Borderlands (Chronicle of Higher Ed)
October 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
(Islamabad, January 22, 2012) Students brave roadside bombs and Taliban threats while on class assignments. Professors are kidnapped and killed. Campus radio stations get regular visits from military intelligence. Welcome to journalism education in Pakistan’s tribal areas. “Nine-eleven was a boon to us,” says a lecturer at one of the universities there, a few dozen [...]
Report on Media and Policy in the Muslim World Retreat
October 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
(Feb. 10, 2012) Journalists across the Muslim world are in need of political and practical support in the face of a backlash from governments struggling to undermine the media revolution sweeping the Middle East, Southeast and South Asia, according to a new report released by The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State [...]
Ira Glass’s Casablanca Moment with Mike Daisey (CJR.org)
October 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
(March 20, 2012) Over the weekend, as just about anyone with electricity knows by now, the public radio program This American Life fell on its sword over its bad Apple episode. The gesture was a noble one. As CJR’s Ryan Chittum put it: With the stunning news that This American Life is retracting its episode [...]
Indonesia can teach Egypt about post-revolution generals and politics (The Seattle Times)
October 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
JAKARTA (March 24, 2012) — “We warned them about trusting the military.” The topic of the conversation was Egypt, but the speaker was no anti-Supreme Council of the Armed Forces activist or Western human-rights worker. She was a top adviser to the vice president of Indonesia, a country that knows a thing or two about [...]
