Harry Cassin
Publisher and Editor
Andy Spalding
Senior Editor
Jessica Tillipman
Senior Editor
Bill Steinman
Senior Editor
Richard L. Cassin
Editor at Large
Elizabeth K. Spahn
Editor Emeritus
Cody Worthington
Contributing Editor
Julie DiMauro
Contributing Editor
Thomas Fox
Contributing Editor
Marc Alain Bohn
Contributing Editor
Bill Waite
Contributing Editor
Shruti J. Shah
Contributing Editor
Russell A. Stamets
Contributing Editor
Richard Bistrong
Contributing Editor
Eric Carlson
Contributing Editor
It’s no secret that traditional newsrooms are hurting. But a new kind of journalism is rising — the open data movement.
Jeanne Bourgault of Internews has a story in Wired about a practice that’s reshaping the news.… Continue Reading
Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is a winner of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award for its ‘relentless and successful’ campaign against corruption.
The Manila-based Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation confers what’s often called the ‘Asian Nobel Prize.’… Continue Reading
The New York Times reported this week that, for more than a decade, the CIA allegedly has been bringing suitcases stuffed with cash to the offices of Afghan president Hamid Karzai (pictured left).… Continue Reading
An Afghan judge Tuesday sentenced the two former heads of what was once Afghanistan’s largest bank to five years in prison for involvement in the massive fraud scandal that brought the bank down in 2010.… Continue Reading
Afghan President Hamid KarzaiCorruption levels are higher than ever in Afghanistan and Hamid Karzai has been quick to blame the U.S. President Karzai claims the Western allies have been complicit in the graft, and he might be right.… Continue Reading
The countries of the developed North/West played two roles in instigating corruption in the developing South/East. First, they acted as the suppliers of corruption. This comes from multinational companies looking for business opportunities for their products in developing countries.… Continue Reading
There was evidence of horrifying scenes – amputees being left to defecate in their own beds, blood draining from patients into open vats, maggots feeding on infected wounds — and all embedded in deep corruption.… Continue Reading
A post on the Risk Management Monitor last month from Christine Kane talked about the most dangerous countries for expats to work in.
Listed were Iraq, Colombia, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.… Continue Reading
Eighteen senior government officials from Afghanistan will receive anti-corruption training in Singapore through an international aid package.
A report last week by Channel News Asia said the week-long training program is part of a $1 million technical assistance package that Singapore pledged at the International Conference on Reconstruction Assistance to Afghanistan.… Continue Reading
More than half the journalists murdered in the line of duty were working to expose corruption.
“Murder, after all, is the ultimate form of censorship,” wrote Robert Mahoney, deputy director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).… Continue Reading
Corruption in Afghanistan is back in the news — even if our 100,000 troops serving there are not.
Last month, the U.S. government suspended an auditing team from Deloitte who didn’t flag massive corruption at Kabul Bank before it nearly failed last fall.… Continue Reading
Will disclosures by Wikileaks ever lead to prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act?
Maybe. The whistleblower site said this week that among the classified U.S. diplomatic cables it plans to publish soon will be some alleging corruption in foreign governments.… Continue Reading
