Good journalism, ‘the little engine that could’

Please take a moment to see this link about an incredible story ’The Girl in the Window’ in the St. Petersburg Times (ran July 31, 2008).
The story is about a 7 year old girl, incredibly neglected by her biological mother as an infant and toddler.
“Authorities had discovered the rarest of creatures: a feral child, deprived of [...]

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Reality check – for those of us who choose to ignore them

I received the following in a recent email. It wasn’t rude… just blunt. It even came with a helpful link… but talk about reality.
Rcvd 20/5/08
“I’ll be blunt: freelancing here is a tough gig, both as a journalist and photographer. There are so many foreigners that have moved here in recent years that competition is stiff. [...]

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“Committing journalism”

“Wednesday, police arrested Harrison Nkomo, a lawyer who represented New York Times journalist Barry Bearak when Bearak was briefly detained last month, the rights group Human Rights Watch said. Bearak, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter based in Johannesburg, South Africa, spent four nights in jail in Zimbabwe on charges of “committing journalism” while covering the election.”
Egads. [...]

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