Articles by McKinsey Quarterly: Online business journal of McKinsey & Company. Business Management Strategy - Corporate Strategy - Global Business Strategy. The Information Overload Research Group. The New Yorker. Society of Professional Journalists. Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) | Understanding News in the Information Age. American Journalism Review. In Egypt, new newspapers and old problems. The Hubris and Despair of War Journalism by Susie Linfield. What Martha Gellhorn teaches us about the morality of contemporary war reportage. Images courtesy of Peter Van Agtmael/Magnum Photos War correspondent Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) was a household name—epitomizing bravery, glamour, and political commitment—to previous generations of Americans, especially in the 1930s and ’40s when she covered the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Nuremberg trials for mass-publication magazines such as Collier’s.
Gellhorn is no longer well-known outside of journalistic circles, but that may change due to a mini-revival of works by and about her. Her 1940 novel about the fall of Czechoslovakia, A Stricken Field, which Eleanor Roosevelt, admittedly a friend, called a “masterpiece,” has recently been reissued by the University of Chicago Press. In a career that spanned six decades, Gellhorn covered wars in, among other places, China, Finland, Israel, Vietnam, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. “Gellhorn’s despair is now the norm. GOING SOUTERRAIN. Underneath Paris is a parallel universe of tunnels, caverns, bones—and party venues. Will Hunt spends a few days and nights down there with a band of urban explorers From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, November/December 2012 SOME YEARS AGO, I sat on a stone-cut bench in a dark chamber in the catacombs of Paris wearing a headlamp and muddied boots, and listened to the strange story of Félix Nadar, the first man to photograph the underground of Paris.
In 1861, Nadar invented a battery-operated flash lamp, one of the first artificial lights in the history of photography, and promptly brought his camera into Paris's sewers and catacombs. Over three months, Nadar—41, moustachioed, with unruly red hair—shot in the darkness beneath the streets. Now, a century and a half behind Nadar, I am back in Paris with a group of urban explorers. JUST AFTER 9pm on Tuesday, as twilight falls, we stand in a derelict train tunnel to the south of the city. Online Journalism Review | Knight Digital Media Center. Home » Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. Journalism jobs (media, editorial), news for journalists | Journalism.co.uk. JournalismJobs.com -- The Job Board for Media Professionals.
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