The heroic actions, and difficult editorial decisions, undertaken by the Bosnian newspaper Oslobođenje during the siege of Sarajevo illustrate an important truth: Objectivity is not neutrality.
Press Freedom
The shrillness, vulgarity, and shamelessness on display in the Kavanaugh spectacle will only get worse—because it is in the self-interest of our bottom-line-obsessed media to let it get worse.
The memory of 20th-century totalitarianism causes many in the West to conjure up images of state-run media using heavy-handed propaganda to indoctrinate the masses in a particular ideology. This is no longer the main threat.
U.S. media is often clueless about foreign-language journalism funded by its own government. That is a topic worth shining some light on.
Every society in history has limited speech in some way, yet some have remained freer than others. Published in "America on the Brink," Vol. 22 No. 3.
Democracy and transparency need each other. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
The new head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, ostensibly dedicated to
furthering American principles, is now endangering brave journalists who
have spent their careers defending them.
A lesson from Nigeria, on balancing the blessings of modernity and the celebration of an ancestral past.
The campus free speech wars aren’t the only threat to American higher education.
The Trump presidency is giving Americans a crash course in civics. Are we capable of sharing the lessons with the world?
What the critics get wrong about RFE-RL’s Persian language news service, Radio Farda.
VOA’s alleged mishandling of a Chinese insider’s interview shouldn’t overshadow the important work done by it and the other U.S. government-sponsored broadcasters.
And why some limits on speech are not only good but even necessary for a free society.
(Co-authored with Jeffrey Gedmin)
A memo to the new CEO of U.S. international media.
The problem with our media isn’t “fake news.” It’s the absence of meaningful contexts for interpretation.
How serious political reporting became a luxury good amid a mass-market media circus.
(Co-authored with Jeffrey Gedmin)
President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union Address, televised January 2018 on the Daily Donald Trump (DDT) network.
(Co-Authored with Jeffrey Gedmin)
A former President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and a longtime
observer of America’s public diplomacy weigh in on Michael Pack’s
“Wednesday night massacre.”