On Thursday morning, heavily armed attackers, believed to be members of al-Shabaab, invaded Garissa University and killed 147 students. Mohamed Kuno, a high-ranking al-Shabaab official,… Read More »Paying Attention to Garissa
What’s a “holy shit visualization”? It’s a way of looking at data that makes turns a statistic you might have flipped past in a book… Read More »“It’s scary when we can do this out of love and there’s nothing you can threaten us with”
Foreign correspondent, journalism professor and author Howard French recently weighed in on the debate about media coverage of Charlie Hebdo and the massacres in Baga… Read More »Howard French on the media’s coverage of Boko Haram massacres
This has been an ugly week. On Wednesday, two Islamic extremists assassinated 12 people in the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The next day,… Read More »Honor every death: Paying attention to terror in Baga, Nigeria as well as Paris
Around noon on Saturday, an 18-year old African American teenager, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by a local police officer in Ferguson, MO, a… Read More »News reports on Michael Brown’s death: how do mourners become a “mob”?
Once upon a time, there was a blog. It was written in Amharic, the dominant language in Ethiopia, by a team of young journalists and… Read More »Free Zone 9 Bloggers