NewsWorld Cost of Dissent for Iranian Journalists Though we are all too familiar with the repression reporters increasingly face in Iran, we were extremely troubled this week to hear that Hossein Derakhshan, an influential Iranian blogger, has been sentenced to nineteen and a half years in prison for his… Marissa Colon-MargoliesSeptember 30, 2010
NewsWorld Juárez Reporters Fight For Their Lives On Sunday September 19th El Diaro de Juárez published an editorial entitled “Qué quieren de nosotros?” The editorial was an open letter to warring drug cartels… Marissa Colon-MargoliesSeptember 22, 2010
AnalysisWorld Iraq After Invasion Bloodiest Country for Journalists Another journalist was gunned down in Iraq today, prominent Al-Iraqiya television anchor, Riad al-Saray. According to Iraqi police al-Saray was ambushed by gunmen using silencers outside his car. The Committee to Protect Journalists… Marissa Colon-MargoliesSeptember 7, 2010
AnalysisBusiness, Environment Worker Abuses Abound in Oil Cleanup Scandal Unthinkably, another oil rig has exploded off the Gulf Coast. No one died in the explosion that occurred around 9 a.m. this morning, but there have been conflicting reports of worker injuries. An oil slick a mile long and 100 feet wide has already been spotted… Marissa Colon-MargoliesSeptember 2, 2010
NewsLabor American Apparel Won’t Hire You Unless You’re Hot Nice scoop by Gawker. The website published documentation today of American Apparel’s “Full Body Head to Toe” Employment Policy — that requires… Marissa Colon-MargoliesJune 9, 2010
ImpactJustice After Sex Abuse, Bribery, the Vatican Takes a New Tone In recent months a string of sex abuse scandals have rocked the Vatican, the latest of which, broken by the Investigative Fund’s Jason Berry… Marissa Colon-MargoliesMay 18, 2010
NewsBusiness UBS, JP Morgan Implicated in Scheme To Cheat Taxpayers Over a dozen Wall Street firms, including Bank of America Corp., JP Morgan Chase & Co., UBS AG and the financial services arm of General Electric Co. have been implicated in a conspiracy to defraud taxpayers, Marissa Colon-MargoliesMarch 26, 2010
AnalysisJustice, World Last Lawsuit Standing I strongly recommend checking out Jeremy Scahill’s new documentary on Blackwater and its alleged murder of a nine-year-old boy during the 2007 massacre at Nisour Square. Marissa Colon-MargoliesJanuary 29, 2010