Pulitzer Center Update April 26, 2016
News Roundup: The Assad Files by Ben Taub
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Pulitzer Center grantee Ben Taub documented the four-year effort to extract documents linking Syrian President Bashar Assad to torture and other human rights abuses from Syria in his New Yorker article, "The Assad Files." Since its publication, a number of media outlets have picked up this important story, sparking much discussion and commentary. Some highlights of the coverage include:
Broadcast and radio
- PBS NewsHour
- BBC World News America
- NPR Morning Edition
- PRI's The World
- BBC World Service
- Al Jazeera (Arabic)
Print and digital
- New York Post
- The New York Times
- The Daily Beast
- Business Insider
- Vox
- NPR's The Two-Way blog
- Al Jazeera (Arabic)
- Foreign Policy in Focus (1 of 2)
- Foreign Policy in Focus (2 of 2)
- Politico Playbook
- Politico Brussels Playbook
- The Huffington Post
- National Post
- Foreign Policy
Click here for more information about Ben Taub and the Assad Files.