Nieman Reports
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
Vol. 53 No. 2 Summer 1999
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War Crimes, Human Rights and Press Freedom:
The Journalist's Job


Table of Contents
3 War Crimes, Human Rights and Press Freedom: The Journalist's Job
4The Journalist as a Witness to War Crimes ..... By Ellen Hume
5Confronting the Abuses of Human Rights ..... By John Shattuck
9Mass Graves: An Excerpt From 'Crimes of War' ..... By Elizabeth Neuffer
11A Serbian Journalist Ponders What Has Been Lost ..... By Dragan Cicic
13An Albanian Newspaper Is Reborn ..... By Ardian Arifaj
15In Yugoslavia, the Consequences of Not Reporting the Truth ..... By Chris Hedges
17The Journalist as Moral Arbiter ..... By Michael J. Kirkhorn
19Penetrating Milosevic's Wall of Silence ..... By Mark B. Lewis
21Reflections of Balkan Journalists: Excerpts From Global Beat

22Images and Words From the Balkan Conflict ..... By David Brauchli

24Dealing With the Trauma of Covering War: Excerpts From a Conference
27A Ugandan Journalist Is Taken to Court By his Government ..... By Charles Onyango-Obbo
30Watching the Watchdogs ..... By Wilson Wanene
33Chilean Media Work in the Long Shadow of Pinochet ..... By Mirko Macari
36Immigrants Ignite a Media Maelstrom in Greece ..... By Dimitri Mitropoulos
38Journalist's Trade
Reforming Welfare, Reporting on Poverty: The Challenges of Reporting This Story in Various Communities and Other Countries
39Constructing the Welfare Story Brick By Brick ..... By Bill Kovach
42The Evolving Coverage of Welfare Reform ..... By Lynda McDonnell

45Welfare Reform and Latinos = Immigration and Cultural Politics ..... By Joe Rodriguez
47Asian-Americans and Welfare Reform ..... By William Wong
49The 'Welfare Queen' Experiment ..... By Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr.
53In the Midst of Poverty, People's Stories are Hard to Tell ..... By Pat Gish
56Portraying Poverty in the Face of Newsroom Pressures ..... By Martha Shirk
58European Reporters' Views of America's Welfare Reform ..... By Martin Gehlen
59Words & Reflections

60'The Monica Thing' and Other Observations About Journalism
61Searching for Facts in a Sea of Speculation ..... By Richard Harwood
63'The Monica Thing' ..... By John F. Stacks
65Blurring the Lines Hurts Journalism ..... By Jim Lehrer
66 The Strange Questions Journalists Ask ..... By Richard L. Fox
67Why I Asked Jesse Jackson About the Media ..... By Adam-Paul Smolak
68'The Republic of Entertainment' ..... By Josh Getlin
70Max Frankel's Life and Times ..... By Jack Nelson
Nieman Notes
72Finding Stories of Common Concerns ..... By Susan E. Reed
73Class Notes
77End Note: Using the Camera to Peer Inside ..... By Beatriz Terrazas
Cover photograph by Ron Haviv, Saba Press Photo, reprinted courtesy of W.W. Norton & Company, "Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know," Edited by Roy Gutman and David Rieff (pp. 104-105), Copyright 2008 by Crimes of War Project. Photos on Nieman Reports pages 6, 17, 18, 24 and 26 also reprinted courtesy of W.W. Norton & Company, "Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know," Copyright 2008 by Crimes of War Project.


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