News Roundup: The Assad Files by Ben Taub

Pulitzer Center grantee Ben Taub documented the four-year effort to extract documents linking Syrian President Bashar Assad to torture and other human rights abuses from Syria in his New Yorker article, "The Assad Files." Since its publication, a number of media outlets have picked up this important story, sparking much discussion and commentary. Some highlights of the coverage include:

Broadcast and radio

• PBS NewsHour
• BBC World News America
• NPR Morning Edition
• PRI’s The World
• BBC World Service
• Al Jazeera (Arabic)

Print and digital

• New York Post
• The New York Times
• The Daily Beast
• Business Insider
• Vox
• NPR’s The Two-Way blog
• Al Jazeera (Arabic)
• Foreign Policy in Focus (1 of 2)
• Foreign Policy in Focus (2 of 2)
• Politico Playbook
• Politico Brussels Playbook
• The Huffington Post
• National Post
• Foreign Policy

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