News: January 2009 Archives
And then they came for me
Lasantha Wickrematunge, the editor of the Sri Lanka newspaper The Sunday Leader who was murdered on Sunday, wrote his own farewell letter days before he was murdered. I blogged about his brutal murder on 8 January, but I am posting......more
The Terminal Spy
There are some stories where even the most diligent journalism cannot answer the basics: who, what, when, where, why and how? When the New York Times's London correspondent, Alan Cowell, set out to turn his reporting on the poisoning......more
Letters Against War, 2002
Tiziano Terzani was the Asia correspondent for German weekly Der Spiegel for over thirty years. The Florentine journalist also wrote for Italy's respected broadsheets La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera. After a lifetime of activity, he retreated to a secluded......more