by Jonatan Placing | Sep 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
ELY, MINNESOTA and MIAMI, FLORIDA Just a few weeks ago we were nine international journalists in the wilderness area close to the small town of Ely in northern Minnesota, just a few hours south of the Canadian border. The surroundings are the spitting image of...
by Valentina Oropeza | Sep 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
The first thing that I did when I arrived to Saint Paul on Friday August 8th for attending to the WPI Fellowship was turning on the TV to see what was on the news. I spent almost a day travelling from Caracas to Minnesota through the border with Colombia and had no...
by Ivo Van Woerden | Sep 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Windows on the World, it was called. And I remember that the view from the 107th floor of the North Tower, one of the Twin Towers in New York City, seemed to be exactly that to me. So high up the horizon wasn’t its usual flat, but became a slightly bended line,...
by Mandakini Gahlot | Sep 15, 2014 | Government data surveillance
This guy just stands outside the White House flipping the bird to the President presumably. We ccouldn’t quite work out what he was protesting against – a whole range of things including the right to not pay any taxes. Oh, and I am not making this...
by Sumeera Riaz | Sep 15, 2014 | Government data surveillance
Govt data Surveillance and privacy had never been the most popular subject well talked about and thought about among the people of both advanced and developing countries. But thanks to Snowden episode which opened new debate on how much surveillance can...
by Jonatan Placing | Sep 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Roadkill for the wolfes, Wolf Center, Ely, Minnesota. Tiny island, Ely, Minnesota. Editors at the Washington Post, Washington DC. Bullet-riddled, armor-reinforced pickup truck used by reporters and photographers in the Balkans, Newseum, Washington DC....
by Shalailah Medhora | Sep 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
If you’ve visited the White House in the last few weeks, it’s likely you’ve bumped into one of the Capital’s more colourful characters. His name is Chance Camelslayer Addison (the Camelslayer part is trademarked, by the way), and every day he stands, not so silently,...
by Ivo Van Woerden | Sep 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
After visiting the Native-American National Pipestone Monument in Tracy, Minnesota, I was given an “Indian” nickname by my colleagues: Sleepy Giant. The ‘sleepy’ aspect comes from being somewhat exhausted at certain times, and not afraid to say so. The giant part is...
by Valentina Oropeza | Sep 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
The first spot that the visitors of the Newseum in Washington will find nowadays is a picture and a brief text that aims to honor James Foley’s memory, a freelance American journalist that ISIS claimed to behead this week. Probably they have already added another one...
by Ilina Stoyanova | Sep 6, 2014 | Privacy
When I was a child I used to stay in my room, usually when I needed to seclude myself. This was my fortress, a safe and secure place where I believed that no one would ever have the chance to disturb me. I suppose as adults we all still have the same need to some...
