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March 08, 2011 | The New Republic
Afghanistan Dispatch: It Takes a Village
A U.S. -led military raid, a missing Afghan, and talk of revenge.
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January 23, 2011 | St. Petersburg Times
Caught in the Crossfire: Afghan Reporters Tell The Story of Their Country
Afghanistan's rapidly expanding media sector is a rare post-Taliban success story. But the journalists who make it happen must risk their own safety in the process.
January 23, 2011 | St. Petersburg Times
Afghan Reporter Tells Her Story
Zarghoona Salehi covers education and health for Pajhwok Afghan News. Her job as a female journalist puts her an uncomfortable half step ahead of the culture in which she lives.
January 18, 2011 | Columbia Journalism Review
Vanessa M. Gezari on “Crossfire in Kandahar”: a CJR Podcast
Vanessa Gezari speaks about the ways that Western media organizations can, in time, help contribute to a better and freer media environment in Afghanistan.
January 06, 2011 | Columbia Journalism Review
Crossfire in Kandahar
Unprecedented journalism applies for local and foreign journalists covering the war in Afghanistan while NATO and the Taliban compete in a battle of information and propaganda.
December 03, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
Reporting from Afghanistan
Since the fall of the Taliban, dozens of private radio and TV stations and hundreds of newspapers and magazines compete to satisfy Afghans' growing appetite for news and information. One Afghan's hopes for independent journalism.
November 19, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
Unlikely Stories, or the Making of an Afghan News Agency
Pajhwok Afghan News leads efforts to provide news platforms for Afghan stories, building media infrastructure despite dangerous political obstacles.
November 11, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
Journalism in an Oral Culture: From Homer’s Odyssey to Tolo TV
Finding a living bridge in Afghanistan between the oral culture of storytelling in the past and the new media of journalism in the modern world.
November 08, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
Afghan journalist detained in Kandahar
Southern Afghanistan is one of the most perilous and difficult places for Afghan reporters to cover.
September 27, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
Why Not to Cover the Taliban: An Afghan Perspective
Afghans working with foreign news agencies know that despite the Taliban's "extraordinary" public relations skills, their livelihoods as journalists exist only during Taliban failure.
September 24, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
Don’t Jail Them, Train Them
The arrests of Afghan journalists this past week for allegedly enabling the Taliban propaganda machine raise questions about journalists' roles in the age of information warfare.
September 23, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
Do Politicians Ever Tell the Truth?
Discerning truth from lies stemming from public misinformation presents a weighty challenge for Afghan reporters covering the country's parliamentary election.