Category: Journalism

Former Boston University student Johannes Hirn shot a story several years ago about an immigrant who wanted to box his way into America. That immigrant was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two alleged bombers from the Boston Marathon. I just hope the site the Boston University News Service is linking to has licensed those images … (Thanks to Prof. Denise...

Over at the National Journal, Ron Fournier takes aim at the limited press access being granted by the White House. Again, for those not following along, “news” delivered by the White House is not journalism. Information, yes, but not journalism. There will be a test at the end of the semester on this. (Thanks to Susan Walsh for the link.)

His is not a name many of us know, but his work during World War II in ending military censorship changed the way we understand wars. David W. Dunlop at The New York Times wrote the story about how Cal Whipple went up the chain of command to get George Strock’s photo of three dead Americans published. Mr. Whipple and...

The Washington Post has a piece up that looks back at a controversial photo it published last November. The image, of a Palestinian man allegedly holding the body of his child, originally carried a caption indicating the boy had been killed by an Israeli airstrike. After an investigation, a United Nations commission has determined the boy was most likely killed...