Reenacting Survivors’ Bodies in the No Gun Ri Peace Park

Right to Mourn ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190855246.003.0005 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 101-126

Author(s):

Suhi Choi

Keyword(s):

Traumatic Event ◽

Pulitzer Prize ◽

Investigative Reporting ◽

Associated Press

The No Gun Ri Peace Park was built in 2012 to honor civilian victims of the No Gun Ri Killings, a wartime atrocity committed by US troops. Survivors and victims’ families had been silenced until Associated Press journalists published their story in 1999 and subsequently earned a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Investigative Reporting. As a durable war mnemonic in a public site, the park is now performing the critical roles that survivors and victims’ families once carried: witnessing, performing, and transferring trauma to others. This chapter explores not only how the park reenacts survivors’ bodies in communicating a traumatic event that most visitors did not experience directly, but also how it—as a newly constructed sign—negotiates meanings of the No Gun Ri Bridge, the original site of the killings that is located adjacent to the park.

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A multi-platform approach to investigative journalism

Pacific Journalism Review – Te Koakoa ◽

10.24135/pjr.v18i1.287 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 17

Author(s):

Robert Rosenthal

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

San Francisco ◽

Graduate School ◽

New York Times ◽

Pulitzer Prize ◽

Columbia University ◽

Investigative Journalism ◽

Sigma Delta ◽

Investigative Reporting ◽

Foreign Correspondence

Robert Rosenthal began his career in journalism at The New York Times, where he was a news assistant on the foreign desk and an editorial assistant on the Pulitzer-Prize winning Pentagon Papers project. He later worked at the Boston Globe, and for 22 years at the Philadelphia Inquirer, starting as a reporter and eventually becoming its executive editor in 1998. He became managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle in late 2002, and joined the Center for Investigative Reporting as executive director in 2008. Rosenthal has won numerous awards, including the Overseas Press Club Award for magazine writing, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for distinguished foreign correspondence, and the National Association of Black Journalists Award for Third World Reporting. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in international reporting, and has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. The Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ) invited Robert Rosenthal to speak about the transformational model of investigative journalism, which he has pioneered at the CIR, as the keynote speech at the ‘Back to the Source’ conference.

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ARTICLE-REVIEW ON THE BOOK BY Stephen J. Berry Watchdog Journalism: The Art of Investigative Reporting (University of Iowa, 2009. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 290 p.)

Foreign Languages in Uzbekistan ◽

10.36078/1612376293 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 202-223

Author(s):

Wontai Wontai SEOL

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

Los Angeles ◽

New York Times ◽

The United States ◽

Pulitzer Prize ◽

Investigative Journalism ◽

The New York Times ◽

Investigative Reporting ◽

Baltimore Sun

While witnessing a flood of media failings in 2002 and 2003 in the United States, and especially, the New York Times stunningly detailed mea culpa concerning its mistakes in covering the run-up to the United States’ war in Iraq, the author, a former investigative reporter, decided to show how watchdog journalism should work. The author selected six Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative projects of various-size newspapers and showed how the projects started, proceeded, and brought about change. The selected newspapers are The Orlando Sentinel in Florida (chapter 1), The Williamette Week in Oregon (chapter 2), The Toledo Blade in Ohio (chapter 3), The Baltimore Sun in Maryland (chapter 4), The New York Times in New York (chapter 5), The Los Angeles Times in California (chapter 6). Each chapter presents a backstory on each investigative reporting based on the author’s interviews with the reporters who carried out the investigative project. The book supplies full details on the path to finding out the truth by various investigative skills. The author emphasized that investigative journalism can be done individually or as a team at any size newspaper regardless of obstacles or corporate pressures, if only the journalist is armed with the investigative mentality. The author writes that this investigative mentality is required these days when corporate pressure on the media is widespread.

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