(Feb. 13, 2015) It’s not about you; it’s about the story. That’s what we tell TV journalism students. The tragic death of 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon reminds us that even in the video selfie culture of TV news, accurate reporting matters. Bob’s death after a lifetime of covering conflict comes against the backdrop of […]
How Bob Simon, Brian Williams Present a Parable of the Digital Age (PBS MediaShift)
February 13, 2015 by Leave a Comment
POWs, Dead Dictators, and Journalistic Ethics (CJR.org)
October 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
(Oct. 27, 2011) The young Iranian prisoner was no more than fourteen, still caked with a thick layer of dust from the battlefield. He was among thousands of old men and young boys being held in an Iraqi POW camp somewhere outside Basrah. It was September 1980, the early weeks of the Iran-Iraq War, and […]
