Mallary Jean Tenore
Apr. 16, 2013
11:57 am
Javier Manzano was "shocked" when he found out
he had won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
“To be honest, I am still having a bit of trouble processing the magnitude of the recognition,” Manzano, a freelancer for Agence France-Presse, said by email Tuesday morning. “I feel privileged to be [in] the company of my colleagues who also work as freelancers in some of the most challenging environments with little or no outside support.”
Freelancers have won Pulitzer prizes in the past, but not nearly as often as full-time journalists have. Pulitzer administrator Sig Gissler told Poynter that it's been 17 years since a freelance photographer won a Pulitzer. (Two freelance photographers -- Charles Porter IV and Stephanie Welsh -- won in 1996.)
Manzano won for a photo of two rebel soldiers guarding their sniper’s nest in Aleppo, as light streams through bullet holes in the wall behind them. Karmel Jabl, the neighborhood in which Manzano captured the photo, separates many of the major battlegrounds in Aleppo.
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Andrew Beaujon
Dec. 19, 2012
9:17 am
CBS and NPR's coverage of the Syrian uprising were recognized by the 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards, whose
winners were announced Wednesday morning by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
CBS reporter Clarissa Ward "bravely reported on what was happening inside Syria’s dangerous and largely inaccessible insurgent strongholds despite government efforts to keep foreign journalists away," the awards say.
To report this extraordinary series of nine stories, Ward entered Syria posing as a tourist carrying only a small camera. She gave viewers the rare opportunity to meet the people behind the shaky cell phone videos posted on YouTube. With deliberate and straightforward reporting, Ward provided riveting details about activists and regular citizens as their struggle brought Syria to the brink of civil war.
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Genevieve Belmaker
Nov. 19, 2012
10:25 am
Social media is a particularly powerful tool in the Middle East, where in some countries it gives people a way to express themselves. That expression takes many forms, from social protest, to political criticism, to sharing news and information.
Most … Read more
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Andrew Beaujon
Sep. 25, 2012
11:50 am
Reddit
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof
answered readers' questions on Reddit Monday. Here are some highlights:
• Kristof tries to produce as much copy as he can from his trips abroad: "[G]iven how long it takes to get to the places I go, I need to be sure that if I get there, I can do several different columns from that destination." And he thinks
the appetite for foreign reporting is waning:
The big challenge for foreign reporting is that I think the U.S. is losing interest. For a decade or so after 9/11, the U.S. was quite interested in the world, an aberration in our history of insularity. Now I think we're reverting the more normal situation where we're quite inward looking. That also poses huge problems for those of us who care about global poverty.
• He admits he
likes making the "most emailed" list. (Here are
some tips for doing that.)
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Al Tompkins
Sep. 13, 2012
4:00 pm
This morning I got a call from the Poynter.org editors, who asked: “Could you write a piece explaining Coptic Christianity?” The request comes as law enforcement identifies Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, being widely described as a “California Coptic Christian,” as the … Read more
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Aug. 27, 2012
6:44 am
As news organizations experiment more with social networking sites, many are realizing that social media has to be an integral part of how we gather news, tell stories and develop beats.
NPR’s new global health and development beat is a … Read more
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Steve Myers
May 7, 2012
4:02 pm
Committee to Protect Journalists
The government of Equatorial Guinea responded to its distinction
as the fifth most-censored country in the world by holding a news conference at which President Teodoro Obiang declared, "There are really no restrictions on any activity of the press, provided they are legal." That message must not have made it to the head of the state-owned broadcaster, who on the same day "barred Samuel Obiang Mbana, an independent journalist ... from participating in a televised debate to which he had been invited two days earlier to speak on how press freedom could transform the country." Mbana tells CPJ's Peter Nkanga, "I was told I am problematic, that I might say something the station is censored not to say, and which the government doesn't want aired." ||
Related: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
honors journalists on World Press Freedom Day (U.S. Department of State)
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Apr. 11, 2012
8:01 am
Before he ever stepped foot in Iraq, Washington Post reporter Ed O’Keefe had already navigated his way through landmines, used a tourniquet to help an injured person, and been ambushed.
He did all this and more in a hostile environment … Read more
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Andrew Beaujon
Mar. 27, 2012
1:53 pm
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Mar. 27, 2012
12:02 pm
CNN’s John Sutter and Edythe McNamee spent nearly a year trying to gain entry into Mauritania, where 10 to 20 percent of the population is still enslaved. Their project, “Slavery’s Last Stronghold,” shows the effects slavery has had … Read more
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