Jonathan Myerson Katz is a freelance journalist. He is the author of 'The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster,' winner of the Overseas Press Club of America Cornelius Ryan Book Award, finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, and a Kirkus, Slate, Christian Science Monitor and Amazon.com Book of the Year. He is a regular New York Times contributor whose coverage has included U.S. police violence and the 2015 murders of Muslim students in Chapel Hill, N.C. Other work has appeared in publications including the New York Times Magazine, New Republic, Guardian, Foreign Policy, Politico, and New Yorker website, with grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
A former Associated Press foreign correspondent, Katz won the James Foley/Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his coverage of the January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake and his investigation that revealed United Nations peacekeepers had caus
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Have we lost our commonly held point of departure for thinking about current events, science, health care, and culture? As a country we do not agree on the fundamentals so often not always journalists are under attack even before they embark on their reporting. How can journalists preserve the credibility they have and gain back ground? New York Times International Correspondent Alissa Rubin offers lessons drawn from Bernard Nossiter and recent history.
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Alissa Johannsen Rubin has been a foreign correspondent for more than 20 years in the Middle East, Afghanistan, France and the Balkans. For the past 14 years she has worked for The New York Times and before that she worked for the Los Angeles Times. She won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on Afghan women, the Michael Kelly Award for reporting in Afghanistan and Iraq and the 2015 John Chancellor Award. She has a BA in Renaissance Studies from Brown University and an M.A. in European History f
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