On the morning of April 25, 2022, I woke up to alarming texts from the team I had been working with. Three homes connected to my colleagues at New Hampshire Public Radio had been vandalized. Bricks thrown through windows, “C—” … Read more
When The New York Times sent me to report on a transformative oil discovery in my birthplace, Guyana, they asked for, and got, a first-person narrative. The opening scene places me at the gates of an old sugar plantation … Read more
Ahmed Kabir Kishore remembers the hot, humid afternoon in 2020 when his long career as a political cartoonist was violently interrupted. He had dozed off in his apartment in Dhaka, Bangladesh, despite the noise from market shoppers outside his window, … Read more
There’s an entry into sports for everyone. If you just want to stay top-layer casual, maybe check a score, or send a text to a relative when you see their favorite team won, you can do that. (What’s up, Unc! … Read more
Heather Martin remembers how angry she was at the media after surviving the 1999 Columbine High School shooting as a 17-year-old senior. Journalists “bombarded” traumatized teens with cameras and microphones as they looked for their families and friends, crowded memorials … Read more
“You can tell me what you want, I’m not going to do like RAI.” Those words — about the Italian public broadcaster Radiotelevisione Italiana — came just a few seconds into rapper Ghali’s most recent hit song “Paprika.” The lyrics … Read more
As a cub reporter at The Associated Press in the early 1960s, Kelly Tunney was captivated by the stories she heard from her older co-workers. There was Frank “Pappy” Noel, her colleague in Tallahassee, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who, on … Read more
On Nov. 3, 2023, the BBC World Service and BBC News Arabic launched an emergency radio service in Gaza, 27 days into the current conflict. The broadcast is a BBC Lifeline program — a radio newscast specifically for … Read more
I first discovered Casa Xochiquetzal, a shelter for older and independent sex workers in Mexico City, in January 2008, when I was invited to make a portrait of Carmen Muñoz, the home’s founder, for ELLE Québec magazine. Muñoz, a … Read more
In February, just before I joined a Zoom call with Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, I saw posts on social media that Vice News might shut down. This would add to what has been … Read more