Danny Pearl Case Isn’t Yet Closed For Journalists

Maybe it’s time to think about Daniel Pearl again. Not merely because he represents a different aspect of journalism, let’s say, than the one that has come in for so much attention lately. Not merely because he represents the very best and bravest. But because, in certain ways, the Daniel Pearl case is not closed. Read More

Merrily, He Rolled: Pearl Was Exuberant, Deeply Cultured

PALO ALTO, CALIF.-Danny Pearl’s friends lingered together, in the velvety 6 o’clock California light, outside Memorial Church at Stanford. They politely ignored the local photographers who snapped pictures of them. They smiled and embraced. They did not seem mournful, but drawn; as if they had freshly escaped a harrowing time. They were a kind of Read More

Danny Pearl, Reporter

Daniel Pearl told friends he was coming home. Pakistan was going to be his final fling with foreign journalism, he said; his wife Mariane was pregnant, and they were ready to rejoin the rhythm of American life.

“This was his victory lap,” said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, an associate dean at the Yale School of Management, who Read More