Vlad reviews by Steven Hess.
Relying on methods he has used in the previous books in this series, the longtime fellow at Brookings categorizes, measures, and analyzes newsgathering in the United States by foreign journalists. Also to his own credit, Hess is able to piece together an intelligent picture of the growing complexity of foreign newsgathering: the rise of parachute journalism; the "unprecedented number of Americans ... working as foreign correspondents in their own country"; the employment of a large number of what Hess calls "irregulars," correspondents who are part-time journalists while doing something else (for instance, "an astrologist, a waitress, a Japanese trader in seafood"); and the difficulties of making a career as a foreign correspondent when your spouse has a career, as is more common these...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The sinking economy is threatening the ethnic publications that immigrant communities rely upon to stay informed and navigate American life. Although ethnic newspapers once seemed immune to the forces hurting mainstream newspapers across the country, a growing number of publications that serve immigrant and minority communities are laying off staff, closing print editions or shutting down altogether.
Hyde reviews by Ulf Hannerz.
Mindich reviews Giving Meanings to the World: The First U.S. Foreign Correspondents, 1838-1859 by Giovanna Dell'Orto and Fanatics & Fire-Eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War by Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter Jr.
A young Chinese writer speaks of the fears that drive him and his editor to self-censorship. Murong Xuecun, the pen name of Hao Qun, 37, is one of China's early Internet writers, best known for the novel "Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu." Recently, a nonfiction work, "The Missing Ingredient," about going underground to uncover a pyramid scheme, won him the 2010 People's Literature Prize, but he was unexpectedly barred from making an acceptance speech. He delivered it instead on Tuesday before the Foreign Correspondents Club in Hong Kong:
TRIPOLI, Libya - Libyan rebels said they launched their first attack on Tripoli in coordination with NATO late Saturday, and Associated Press reporters heard unusually heavy gunfire and explosions in the capital. The fighting erupted just hours after opposition fighters captured the key city of Zawiya nearby. Gunbattles and mortar rounds were heard clearly at the hotel where foreign correspondents stay in Tripoli. NATO aircraft made heavy bombing runs after nightfall, with loud explosions booming across the city.
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