Judith Matloff
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Pushing the envelope
People don’t typically welcome television crews to burials. But recently, in Donbas, Ukraine, a distraught father invited journalists from Vice to document the funeral of his 11-year-old daughter, who, along with her pregnant mother and a reported 57 others, had been killed by a Russian missile strike in Kramatorsk while trying to flee to safety. The father didn’t have anyone close to him at the… → Read More
Covering anti-lockdown protests: ‘Time, distance, and shielding’
Bryan Woolston had a plan when he went to cover the anti-lockdown rally last month at the Kentucky state capitol. He wore a cloth mask because the demonstration was billed as a social-distancing gathering. He went on foot in order to get close. But then the crowd got rowdy. People started screaming and shouting. Social […] → Read More
Q&A: Mary Louise Kelly on navigating Iran after Soleimani’s death
To paraphrase Tolstoy’s line about unhappy families, all countries are complicated in their own way. Iran’s tricky for the unpredictable nature of reporting there. You could be thrown in jail, like countless local journalists, or like Jason Rezaian of the Washington Post, who was imprisoned for 544 days on charges of espionage and propaganda. Or […] → Read More
Bad news about Pretty Good Privacy
Groans resound in media safety workshops when the lesson on the encryption software, called Pretty Good Privacy, begins. Journalists without tech savvy find the program devilish to master. Eyes glaze as they grapple with the complex keys that scramble and unscramble secret messages. This is the software that has reigned supreme among whistleblowers and investigative […] → Read More
Sharing a bed and a beat on opposite sides of the news spectrum
The phone call came in the middle of the night from a US military source involved in the air campaign against ISIS. It was September 2015, and Russian warplanes had refused an American request to clear the airspace in northern Syria. Bleary eyed, Jennifer Griffin, the national security correspondent for Fox News, made her way […] → Read More
Documentary filmmakers fear more legal challenges in Trump era
A few days after Donald Trump was elected president, a respected documentary film director met with a roomful of potential backers and distributors in New York City. The director was making a film about questionable contributions to Republican... → Read More
A journalist’s solo mission to cover native peoples across the globe
Tristan Ahtone is an award-winning journalist whose pieces have appeared on Frontline, Wyoming Public Radio, NPR, and the Newshour with Jim Lehrer. He is also a member of the Kiowa tribe, and he has often found himself cringing... → Read More
Program lifts aspiring writers from poverty, infuses media with fresh voices
Stephanie Land had all but given up on becoming a writer in 2015. She was like many of the subjects who appear in articles about the poor--a single, thirtyish mother of two little girls from Missoula who worked... → Read More
Program lifts aspiring writers from poverty, infuses media with fresh voices
Stephanie Land had all but given up on becoming a writer in 2015. She was like many of the subjects who appear in articles about the poor--a single, thirtyish mother of two little girls from Missoula who worked... → Read More
Program lifts aspiring writers from poverty, infuses media with fresh voices
Stephanie Land had all but given up on becoming a writer in 2015. She was like many of the subjects who appear in articles about the poor--a single, thirtyish mother of two little girls from Missoula who worked... → Read More
Reporters struggle to stay safe covering Ebola
Glenna Gordon has worked in West Africa for five years. Visiting Nigerian slums, she knows which streets to avoid. She expertly steers clear of Islamic extremists and kidnappers. But the microscopic particles of Ebola baffle her. When the freelance photographer went to Liberia last week for an assignment with the Wall Street Journal, she received conflicting advice about maneuvering this… → Read More
Reporters struggle to stay safe covering Ebola
Glenna Gordon has worked in West Africa for five years. Visiting Nigerian slums, she knows which streets to avoid. She expertly steers clear of Islamic extremists and kidnappers. But the microscopic particles of Ebola baffle her. When the freelance photographer went to Liberia last week for an assignment with the Wall Street Journal, she received conflicting advice about maneuvering this… → Read More