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Journalists: On the Subject of Courage Vol. 60, No. 2 • Archive of previous issues • Professors' Corner Publisher: Bob Giles Editor: Melissa Ludtke Assistant Editor: Lois Fiore Editorial Assistant: Sarah Hagedorn Design Editor: Diane Novetsky

Journalists: On the Subject of Courage Editor's Note By Melissa Ludtke, Nieman Reports Editor Courage as a Story Needing to Be Told By Lance Morrow Reflections on Courage: International • Read a PDF-format eMprint Newsbook of this section When Death Seems Inevitable By Robert Cox Climbing to Freedom Word by Word By Jose A. Martinez-Soler Murder, Threats, Fires and Intimidation in Gambia By Alagi Yorro Jallow Violence in Liberia Extends to Journalists By Isaac Bantu Dictatorship and Democracy Require Different Kinds of Courage By Sunday Dare Terror Unleashed By Sunday Dare A War Reporter Tries to Understand What Courage Is By Alexis Sinduhije When Corporate Managers Nudge News Decisions By Philippa Green Repressive Actions Give Way to Business Realities By Shyaka Kanuma Burmese Reporters in Exile Confront Different Risks By Aung Zaw When a Journalist's Voice Is Silenced Adapted article by Philip J. Cunningham Words That Made a Difference By Philip J. Cunningham Journalism's Triumphant Journey in Nepal Adapted article by Kanak Mani Dixit Threats Come at Journalists in Pakistan From All Sides By Beena Sarwar Self-Censorship as a Reaction to Murders By Drug Cartels By Raymundo Riva-Palacio A Quiet Courage By Kathleen Currie What We Learned About the Courage of Women Journalists By Judy Woodruff Truth in the Crossfire By Jineth Bedoya Lima Trauma Lingers After Escaping the Danger By Ignacio 'Nacho' Gómez Persevering Despite the Dangers By Mauricio Lloreda Death Threats Are Sent to Try to Stop Reporting By Kim Bolan Challenging a Democratic Government's Secrecy By Russell Mills The Courage of Journalists in the Middle East By Rami G. Khouri Courage Can Mean Pushing Gradually Against Boundaries in Iran By Omid Memarian Western Correspondents Display Cold War Courage By Larry Heinzerling A Difficult Journey From Repression to Democracy By Ann Cooper Government Clampdowns on Newspapers Send Reporting Online By Andrei Khrapavitski Courage Emerges From the Work Journalists Do By Aida Cerkez-Robinson Going to Tell What Others Have Forgotten Interview with Anne Nivat Assessing the Risks Reporters in Iraq Confront Excerpt from a lecture by John Burns War Teaches Lessons About Fear and Courage By Cheryl Diaz Meyer Witnessing War to Send Its Images Home Adapted remarks by Santiago Lyon When Bearing Witness Overrides a Reporter's Fear By Janine di Giovanni The Survival Mode of Reporting From a War Zone Interview with Farnaz Fassihi When Risks Make a Story Too Dangerous to Tell Excerpt from an article by Alissa J. Rubin Teamwork Replaces Ego on the Frontlines of War By Barry Moody Transforming Anger at Journalists' Deaths Into Action By Rodney Pinder Seeking Support for News Media Safety From the United Nations By Rodney Pinder International News Safety Institute: The Work It Does By Rodney Pinder Reflections on Courage: United States • Read a PDF-format eMprint Newsbook of this section The Forces Threatening Journalism By Jay Harris Telling a Story That No Other Newspaper Will Tell By Stephen G. Bloom H.L. Mencken: Courage in a Time of Lynching By Marion Elizabeth Rodgers Heroes in the Tough Transition to Digital News By Davis 'Buzz' Merritt Public Support Wanes, Some Journalists Press On By Barry Sussman Courage of the Wise and Patient Kind By Geneva Overholser Investigative Journalism Doesn't Win Many Friends By Charles Lewis The Center for Public Integrity: What It Is. What It Does. By Charles Lewis Seeking Journalistic Courage in Washington, D.C. By Walter Pincus The Muslim Cartoon Controversy Exposed an Absence of Courage Adapted article by Doug Marlette A Distinction Journalists Like to Ignore By Laurel Leff The Embrace of Principled Stands By Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff The Difficult Isolation Courage Can Bring By Hodding Carter III Editorial Pages: Why Courage Is Hard to Find By Jim Boyd Risking Relationships as a Measure of Courage By Sheryl McCarthy A Local Newspaper Endures a Stormy Backlash By Dean Miller Courage: What Network News Needs Now By Bill Wheatley The Road Traveled From Journalism to Jail By David A. Sylvester Two Sides of Courage By Eli Reed Curator's Corner: What We Share About Courage By Bob Giles Nieman Notes    Compiled by Lois Fiore • Covering the Sago Mine Disaster   By Frank Langfitt • Class Notes • J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project 2006 Winners • Nieman Fellows Win Pulitzers • The Sacramento Bee Wins Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers • John Kenneth Galbraith, Nieman Friend, Dies • A Nieman Classmate Remembers William F. Woo • Nieman Foundation Announces Fellows for 2006-07 • Letters to the Editor • End Note: Conscience and Integrity in Journalism   By Jim Doyle • Iraqi Journalist Atwar Bahjat Receives 2006 Louis M. Lyons Award

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