El peligro en Ciudad Juárez es estar vivo

El peligro en Ciudad Juárez es estar vivo

By Jenny Manrique Cortes on July 26, 2010

Por: Judith Torrea* Ciudad Juárez, México Son las 11:50 de la noche: He acudido a reportar diez crímenes en menos de seis horas. En todo el día murieron quince personas. En la mayoría de los casos, he llegado antes que las fuerzas del orden a pesar de que para hacerlo he escuchado las claves del [...]

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Review: Sebastian Junger's 'War'

Review: Sebastian Junger’s ‘War’

By admin on July 20, 2010

Jon Stephenson, a 2008 Ochberg Fellow based in New Zealand, has reported on the Afghanistan conflict since the U.S.-led war began in 2001. Click here to read Stephenson’s review of Sebastian Junger’s book, “War.”

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John McCusker: Katrina Meets the Oil Spill

John McCusker: Katrina Meets the Oil Spill

By John McCusker on July 19, 2010

The comparisons of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to Katrina are inevitable. It makes for an easy, perhaps even lazy, narrative. As a journalist who covered both, I have tried to avoid these conversations. Katrina and the BP spill are analogous events affecting the same region, sure, but these were distinct events. Even where [...]

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El testigo indeseable

El testigo indeseable

By Jenny Manrique Cortes on July 12, 2010

Ir en Contravía le ha costado a mi colega Hollman Morris, su tranquilidad. Hace tiempo que este periodista colombiano comenzó a mostrar la cara de ese otro país que pocos quieren ver, a través de su programa de televisión “Contravía” financiado por Open Society. Obnubilada con los logros del gobierno actual, la sociedad colombiana ha [...]

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Hollman Morris Obtains Visa

Hollman Morris Obtains Visa

By admin on July 8, 2010

2009 Dart Center Ochberg Fellow Hollman Morris, an investigative reporter in Colombia, has received his visa from the U.S. State Department. The visa, which Morris had requested to participate in the 2010-11 Nieman Fellowship program at Harvard University, was initially denied on the grounds that Morris presented an international security threat. Here’s the official announcement [...]

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John Moore Documents Gulf Disaster

John Moore Documents Gulf Disaster

By admin on July 6, 2010

2008 Fellow John Moore covered the disaster on the Louisiana coast during a two-week rotation in May. “This Gulf disaster was one of the hardest stories I’ve done this year, and with the Haiti earthquake, a month in southern Afghanistan, a trip to the prison in Guantanamo Bay and coverage of the new immigration law in Arizona, it’s [...]

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Gina Barton wins Casey Medal

Gina Barton wins Casey Medal

By admin on June 29, 2010

For their watchdog project, Fatal Care, Gina Barton (’00) of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and colleagues Crocker Stephenson and Kristyna Wentz-Graff won the Casey Medal in the under-200,000-circ. category. “This team went beyond the story of one child’s death in foster care to discover that 22 additional children died as a result of systemic neglect,” the Casey release [...]

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