Judith Matloff is an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of Journalism, and previously worked as a foreign correspondent for twenty years. She is on the board of the International News Safety Institute, which does safety training all over the world. In this conversation with assistant editor Lauren Kirchner, Matloff speaks about the bravery of CBS correspondent Lara Logan in releasing a public statement about her sexual assault in Egypt. Matloff also revisits an article she wrote for the Columbia Journalism Review several years ago about the dangers that female foreign correspondents often face, and what they can do to help protect themselves from assault and harrassment.

Vanessa M. Gezari is the author of the cover story of the January/February 2011 issue of the , entitled "Crossfire in Kandahar: Afghanistan's new journalists navigate an ambiguous war." In this conversation with assistant editor Lauren Kirchner, Gezari talks about the obstacles that both Afghan journalists and foreign correspondents face in a place like Afghanistan, and about her experiences training the country's newest journalists as the industry blossoms there.

A conversation between assistant editor Lauren Kirchner and CJR columnist Craig Silverman, proprietor of RegretTheError.com. Silverman talks about NPR's recent correction concerning the number of State Department cables that WikiLeaks released to the public, and how this widespread mistake in the press has contributed to a misperception of the WikiLeaks organization.

A conversation between assistant editor Joel Meares and CJR staff writer Clint Hendler about whether or not WikiLeaks is a journalistic organization, and what the latest leaks might mean for the changing role of the watchdog press, free speech on the Internet, and the future of government classification policy.

Assistant editor Lauren Kirchner interviews "Capital Tonight" reporter Liz Benjamin about what it's like to cover the boys' club of Albany politics.