International News - The Review of Journalism

Covering North Korea

News coverage of the “Hermit Kingdom” is sensationalist and reductive. Is Kim Jong Un more important than the country’s 25 million citizens?

Hyeji Yoon
July 5, 2023
12 minute read

Remembering Shireen Abu Akleh

Iman Adem pays tribute to Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh one year after she was killed by the Israel Defense Forces

Iman Adem
May 12, 2023
3 minute read

Pull Quotes Season 6 Episode 6: Iman Adem on the conundrums of photojournalism

Tara De Boer talks with Iman Adem about the ethics of photojournalism and exploitation of the subjects of photographs in today’s media environment

Timothy Cooke, Silas Le Blanc, Tara de Boer and Iman Adem
April 28, 2023
1 minute read

Pull Quotes Season 6 Episode 5: Hyeji Yoon on Western media coverage of North Korea

In the fifth episode of season six, host Silas Le Blanc talks to Hyeji Yoon about her Review-exclusive story on the way the Western media covers North Korea, and what it misses.

Tara de Boer, Timothy Cooke, Silas Le Blanc and Hyeji Yoon
April 26, 2023
2 minute read

CBC’s Palestine Exception

Behind-the-scene accounts from current and former CBC staff raise concerns about transparency, bias, and fear when pitching about the region

Rahaf Farawi
June 15, 2022
22 minute read