List of Media articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 An International Victory, Forged in China’s Tumultuous Past
Nobel Laureate Tu Youyou never studied abroad, never got a doctorate, and never bothered to climb the bureaucratic ladder.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ed Snowden Signed Up for Twitter. He Follows 1 Account — the NSA.
The days of the world's most famous whistleblower keeping a low profile are over.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Sisi Caves to Critics by Releasing Al Jazeera Journalists
Right before the Egyptian leader heads to the U.N., he pardoned 100 prisoners Wednesday.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Free Speech Crackdown, Ecuador Edition
The U.N. has condemned Ecuador's shutdown of a media watchdog group amid concerns the government is increasingly threatening freedom of speech.
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A police officer restrains a man (C) arrested during an anti-parallel trading protest in the Yuen Long district of Hong Kong on March 1, 2015. Scuffles broke out on March 1 between protesters demonstrating against so-called parallel traders, who buy products in Hong Kong and sell them back on the mainland for a profit, and anti-protesters. AFP PHOTO / ANTHONY WALLACE (Photo credit should read ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Egypt Has a Creative Way of Hiding Bad News: Banning Journalists From Reporting on It
Cairo has promised a full investigation into why its security forces accidentally killed eight Mexican tourists. Too bad Egypt has now banned journalists from reporting on it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Muslim Ninth-Grader Arrested for Making A Clock Gets a White House Invite
President Obama invites Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old ninth-grader arrested for making a clock, to the White House.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Censored: A Young Survivor Decries Handling of Tianjin Explosion
The day of China's splashy military parade, she writes, local officials persuaded her parents to sign a sketchy contract.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Giving a Voice to the Victims of Russia’s Crimean Landgrab
How a small group of Crimean Tatar journalists are resisting Moscow's attempt to wipe them off the map.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Range of Reactions to Photo of Dead Syrian Child Across Global Media
Media in Europe, the United States, and Europe each reacts in different ways to the widely shared photo of a dead Syrian child washed ashore in Turkey.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 By Land or By Sea
Looking to escape war and poverty in Syria, the Balkans, and North Africa, thousands of migrants sought refuge in the European Union this summer — or died trying.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘We’re Still Fighting the Japanese in Bed’
China's oversexed anti-Japanese propaganda and its underground porn trade have a lot in common.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Sex Scenes, Made-Up Countries, and Letting Go of Facts
A longtime journalist details the travails of writing her first novel about Africa.
