The ethics of reporting on sexual assault

As a journalist who regularly covers the topic of sexual assault as part of my beat, I often find myself wondering how best to approach the piece, both in terms of being respectful to the survivor and their story, but also in terms of telling the most…

“Can I Quote You on That?”

Examining the Relationship Between Reporters and Sources

At 5:03 p.m., while putting the finishing edits on my story, I got a frantic text from a man I’d interviewed that morning.

Day #8: A Field at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Here is a people who are gone.

There Is No News From Auschwitz: Impressions from Visiting a Nazi Death Camp in 2017

H.R. Knickerbocker: Sounding the Alarm

Towards the tumultuous end of Germany’s Weimar Republic, Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, an American journalist, asked a member of the National Socialist Party what the party would do if it came to power. He expected the man to reply with a lengthy response about…

Varian Fry: The Man Who Saved the Artists of Europe

Varian Fry was the American version of Oskar Schindler, but in contrast to the German businessman who saved over 1,000 Jews, many of Fry’s rescuees were decidedly more A-list.
Among the nearly 2,000 people, many of whom Jewish, that Fry…

Ben Hecht: One man’s failed attempts to warn America about Nazi Germany

Ben Hecht, an Oscar-winning American screenwriter whose unflinching newspaper accounts of the horrors of Hitler made him one of best-known American bylines, describes himself as almost an accidental…

Dorothy Thompson: From Dismissal to Outrage

Dorothy Thompson’s 1932 interview with Hitler — later published as the book, I Saw Hitler! — made her a household name in the United States, and launched her career as one of the most widely read political columnists of the 1930s.

Day #6: The Death Camp Next Door, Confronting Poland’s View of the Holocaust