# **Jimmy Lai: The Media Mogul Who Became a Global Symbol of Resistance** In the grand theater of internet culture, few stories capture the zeitgeist quite like that of Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media tycoon who’s become a symbol of defiance in the face of authoritarianism. If you’ve been on the internet lately, you’ve…
Carlos Narváez, the Colombian investigative journalist who vanished last Tuesday while tracking a weapons-smuggling ring in the Catatumbo region, has become the latest entry in humanity’s longest-running reality show: “Guess Which Continent Murdered the Messenger This Week.” From the glass towers of Brussels to the ramen-scented newsrooms of Tokyo, his disappearance is being processed as…
When Rappler, the Philippine digital news site founded by Nobel laureate Maria Ressa, announced yet another court date last week, the global press corps barely flinched. We’ve seen this tango before: government subpoenas, sudden tax cases, the slow bureaucratic garrote—democracy’s version of death by a thousand paper cuts. From Berlin to Buenos Aires, editors simply…
Howie Kurtz and the Global Gospel of Self-Reference By our jaded foreign correspondent who’s watched press corps on five continents eat their own tails If you zoom out far enough—say, from a café terrace in Lisbon or a newsroom in Lagos—Howard Kurtz looks less like an American media critic and more like a recurring weather…
