Right to be forgotten highlights tensions between privacy, freedoms "What you have is a risk that people will rewrite history" What can you do if you Google your name, and the top search result is a news article about a fight between you and your brother? In the...
The expanding right to be forgotten [program] Picture the most humiliating experience of your life. Now imagine that this awful moment was captured on video by someone else and posted online where anyone could access it just by Googling your name. This...
Western Sahara’s forgotten conflict [program] Nearly all of Africa was decolonized in the 1960s and 1970s. But there is one slice of the continent that wasn't. That's the sparsely populated territory of Western Sahara, a Colorado-sized swathe of land in...
A glimpse of Western Sahara’s forgotten refugees "There's a chance the Sahrawi people could start a new war." The frozen conflict in the disputed territory of Western Sahara rarely makes international headlines anymore. In part that's because the 16-year...
New York Times’ Baquet addresses Trump controversies [program] From the New York Times' reluctance to use the word "lie" or "racist" to describe statements by President Trump to what the news outlet has learned from its coverage of the 2016 election, Executive Editor Dean...
Project Exile: Reporter escaped Russia after beating, burns "Please leave. They're going to kill you." Fatima Tlisova didn't make it easy for the Russian government to get rid of her. As a reporter covering Russia's fight against Chechen separatists in what...
Project Exile: Criticizing Kurdish referendum leads to exile "He told me to either leave or they would beat me very terribly." Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has long had a reputation in the West as a bastion of stability in a chaotic region plagued by...
Sudan’s political crisis When Sudan's dictator of 30 years was ousted in April following months of protests, many were hopeful that the African nation might transition towards democracy. Yet less than three months after Omar...
Project Exile: Moroccan journalist flees after being stripped, jailed "The police broke down the door of my apartment and forced me to undress." When the security software on Moroccan journalist Hicham Mansouri's computer alerted him that there had been a number of attempts to...
Project Exile: Tajikistan harasses reporter into exile "I knew that they have just one goal: they want to see me out of journalism." The calls came to Tajik journalist Humayra Bakhtiyar at her sports club, at the shopping center and at home. Whatever she was...
