Foreign Correspondents

How Dorothy Parvaz Was Freed

ProPublica | Posted 07.24.2011

The phone call came in the middle of the night last month, when my brother Todd and I were visiting our father in a suburb of Portland, Ore. Todd's fi...

The Press and the Current Middle East Crisis

Dr. Josef Olmert | Posted 05.25.2011

Dr. Josef Olmert

The in the Middle East crisis is just nearing the end of the beginning, far from the beginning of the end. So, the press still has the time to live up to the expectations of the public and save its reputation.

Journalists in Afghanistan: Another Order to Stop Reporting

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 05.25.2011

Virginia M. Moncrieff

Afghan intelligence has ordered foreign and national media to immediately cease and desist from reporting live from terrorist attack scenes across Afghanistan.

10 Career Options for Foreign Correspondents

Thomas Crampton | Posted 05.25.2011

Thomas Crampton

With the slashing of newsrooms and foreign budgets, some younger correspondents still in the flush of youth may want to listen to author and former foreign correspondent Eric Weiner's sage advice.

Tom Ricks And The Military's New Philosophical Embeds

Columbia Journalism Review | Tara McKelvey | Posted 05.25.2011

Thomas E. Ricks has a photograph of a general--Ulysses S. Grant, looking haggard and defeated in Cold Harbor, Virginia--on the wall of his office. His...

HuffPost Review: Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi

Katya Wachtel | Posted 05.25.2011

Katya Wachtel

This is the story of one of the thousands of silhouettes who roam war-zones every day so that we, thousands of miles away, can grasp what is happening on the front-line of wars that affect life on this continent too.

Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: March 16, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

After the 2008 Election, it was generally decided that Nate Silver, of FiveThirtyEight.com was to be crowned the new God of The Maths and King Kahuna ...

Foreign Policy and The Fourth Estate

Tara Sonenshine | Posted 05.25.2011

Tara Sonenshine

The economic downturn in the fortunes of traditional U.S. networks and newspapers has slowly eroded coverage of global hot-spots.