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To enter Syria, CBS News foreign correspondent Clarissa Ward has squeezed through holes in fences, waded across canals and slogged through muddy fields in the middle of the night, paying [...]

Spying on journalists has never been easier. A reporter covering the Syrian conflict is chatting on Skype with her editor back home about a story she just filed. Suddenly a [...]

Like many female journalists, Jane Eisner rejoiced when the New York Times smashed the glass ceiling and named a woman executive editor of the world-renowned newspaper. Yet she found herself [...]

Two photographs tell the story. In the first one, Umar Cheema displays a wide, dimpled smile crowned by a bushy mustache. Peering from behind spectacles, his brown eyes exude the [...]

As soon as the blood had been wiped from his eyes and his shattered arm had been secured by a medical team, Dusan Miljus reached for a telephone. The hard-bitten [...]

A year and a half after he was ousted as editor of the Los Angeles Times for bucking budget-slashing bosses, James O'Shea had what he describes as a '3 a.m. [...]

Fox News Channel's No. 1 anchor--the one with the boyish good looks and Southern charm--joined two colleagues as a guest on 'The Strategy Room,' a discussion show streamed live on [...]

A year ago Dextex Filkins of the New York Times was working out of the Pearl Continental Hotel in the Taliban infested city of Peshawar. The reporter was awaiting a [...]

The voice that answered the telephone that February afternoon in the New York Times newsroom was cordial. That is, until the conversation turned to the reason for the call: Did [...]

Like many in the news business, Alan Mutter was surprised when he learned that South Florida's three major dailies--the highly competitive Miami Herald, Palm Beach Post and Fort Lauderdale's Sun-Sentinel--had [...]

Kathy Gannon sees history repeating itself. During her first trip to Afghanistan in March 1986, Gannon traveled in the company of fierce mujahedeen fighters intent on driving the Red Army [...]

During the final hour of his life, Chauncey Bailey ate breakfast at McDonald's and bought a meal for a homeless man. He was on foot, heading toward his newsroom a [...]

Armando Acuna, public editor of the Sacramento Bee, turned a Sunday column into a public flogging for both his editors and the nation's news media. They had allowed the third-longest [...]

From the moment the three-and-a-half-minute video begins, there is a chilling sense of deja vu. At one point, a grim-faced John Bolton appears on the screen to make a pitch [...]

THE ELEVATOR TRANSPORTED THE VISITOR FROM THE GRAY SQUALOR OF JAKARTA INTO A BYGONE ERA: A BUSTLING NEWS BUREAU WITH SEASONED FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, A TV CAMERA CREW AND A [...]

If photo sleuths in Ohio hadn't noticed a pair of missing legs, Allan Detrich still would be cruising to assignments in his sleek blue truck, building his reputation as a [...]

BEFORE RICK JERVIS HEADS OUT INTO THE STREETS OF BAGHDAD, HE MAKES AN IMPORTANT TELEPHONE CALL. Not to his editor back in USA Today's newsroom, but to his security consultant, [...]

When the editor answers her cell phone, she assumes that government spooks may be monitoring the conversation. She never ventures out alone after dark for fear of shadowy figures that [...]

Mohamad Bazzi was in his Beirut apartment having breakfast and thumbing through a newspaper when a friend called with a shocker: Hezbollah guerrillas had made a daring raid into Israel, [...]

After putting the finishing touches on a report for the New York Times on February 7, Carlotta Gall was on her way to Kandahar in southern Afghanistan to interview Taliban [...]

For Deborah Amos, checking her appearance before she ventures outside the protective walls of her living quarters into the wilds of Baghdad has become a ritual: Are the glasses she's […]

The desert sun was ablaze late that Sunday afternoon as the veteran Reuters cameraman finished his assignment. He packed up his equipment and climbed into a car outside the notorious [...]

Wispy gray clouds floated over rain-soaked Manila as journalists congregated at a sprawling military camp on the outskirts of town. They trod through a sea of mud, unbuckling belts that [...]

The intruder scouted the target and decided exactly where to strike. He headed to the site, slipping swiftly through unguarded gates toward a bright orange windsock, a signal that deadly [...]

Jerry Mitchell was 4 years old in 1963 when Medgar Evers pulled his baby blue Oldsmobile into the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, and stepped out carrying an [...]

Emily Wax didn't hesitate when a rebel leader offered her a lift in a stolen Land Cruiser crammed with grenades, automatic weapons and mortar shells. Three sharpshooters, perched on the [...]

Her adrenaline was pumping as sportswriter Paola Boivin, 25, rushed into the St. Louis Cardinal clubhouse in pursuit of postgame coverage. As she maneuvered through the mass of bodies, a [...]

Donald H. Rumsfeld could not pass up a chance to gloat. During a town hall-style meeting with Pentagon workers on May 11, the defense secretary smugly noted that it was [...]

The rising star on the Washington Post's foreign staff had a final duty to perform before heading back to one of the most dangerous spots on Earth. On a balmy [...]

Caution is the watchword for journalists involved in frontline reporting on the mysterious, highly contagious disease. Some editors are discouraging in-person interviews and implementing other health precautions to reduce the [...]

War reporting will never be the same. After surviving a hail of bullets en route to Baghdad, Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Ron Martz cradled the head of a wounded American soldier [...]

An American soldier was writhing on the ground, his right had holding a bloody stump. Screams echoed like shock waves through the not zone that frigid December morning . Four [...]

A percolating brew of drug cartels, rightwing paramilitary units and Marxist guerrillas: welcome to colombia, where some of those unhappy with coverage are more apt to communicate their views with [...]

Journalist Vagram Agadzhanyan went into self-imposed exile in Armenia after being freed from jail in Nagorno-Karabakh. He was photographed at the Hotel Armenia overlooking the main square of the capital, [...]

The wall street journal's manhattan headquarters was destroyed in the September 11 attacks, and terrorits later kidnapped and killed journal reporter daniel pearl. Two other key staffers died during a […]

Photojournalist Yannis Behrakis knows it was sheer luck that the hail of bullets didn't tear into his body as rebels sprang out of the bush, firing wildly. Within seconds, two [...]

On a gray Sunday, Boston Globe reporter Anthony Shadid made his way to the epicenter of one of the world's hottest stories--the Israeli assault on Yasser Arafat's compound in the [...]

The death of Daniel Pearl, killed for political reasons far from the battlefield, and the attack on a convoy of correspondents much closer to the fighting underscore the hazards of [...]

When TV producer Gary Scurka left the field hospital in Afghanistan, he carried grim reminders of a brush with death in a region where decaying corpses, millions of land mines [...]

When a second wave of horror rocked a shell-shocked and grieving nation in early October, the terrorists behind it appeared to be operating on the axiom: If you want to [...]

On September 11, journalists rushed to cover the greatest mass murder in American history. With adrenaline pumping, they began chronicling the biggest story of their lives. Many who reported from [...]

The column of grizzled Afghan rebels crept silently along a mud wall, their assault rifles poised as they neared the positions of Taliban gunners. A Washington Post photographer followed closely, [...]

Photographer David Peterson won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for doing a documentary on downtrodden Iowa farmers after a farm crisis hit the state during the mid-1980s. He felt that his work has yet to be finished and decided to go back and visit the families that served as his subjects that won him the Pulitzer. Surprisingly, instead of finding a group of poor people, Peterson found a group of renewed and proud people. Many of the families displaced by the farm crisis have regained their farms and their financial independence.

Milton Aronson was 'Madder than Hell' about the news media's coverage of the White House sex scandal, labeling it 'vicious mob hysteria.' In mid-February, the 79-year-old fired off a letter [...]

Once again coverage of a mega-story was dominated by rumor, innuendo, undersourced stories and snap judgments. Isn't there some way to break this pattern? On January 28 Larry King stared [...]

YUNGHI KIM HIT THE BEDROOM FLOOR WHEN SHE HEARD THE FIRST VOLLEY OF gunfire around 4 a.m. The Boston Globe photographer thought she had found safety in the CARE compound [...]

Understaffed and low-profile, the Committee to protect Journalists rides to the rescue of reporters and editors who run afoul of governments hostile to the press. A campaign of terror against [...]

Describes how the student press across the United States responded to the Gulf war with a barrage of stories ranging from tearjerkers about alumni who died to editorials condemning anti-Arab sentiment. (SR)

Photographer Torsten Kjellstrand of the Herald, a small Indiana daily with a circulation of 12,700, was unanimously voted as NPPA/Missouri Newspaper Photographer of the Year. The decision was made by a panel of the country's foremost photojournalists and editors during the 53rd Annual Pictures of the Year Contest. Kjellstrand's portfolio included shots from cheerleading competitions, a 4-H county fair and the lifestyle of two brothers who spent 80 years on a farm together.