Jonathan Katz

Bio

Jonathan M. Katz is a journalist based in Durham, N.C. He is a former Associated Press correspondent whose book about the Haiti earthquake and response, The Big Truck That Went By, won the 2013 Overseas Press Club of America award for the year's best book on foreign affairs. Katz has written recently for the New Republic, New York Times, New Yorker, and other publications.

The American Media Is in Full Panic Mode Over Ebola — And It's Only Making Things Worse

By Jonathan Katz

The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is a disaster. That's not a judgment about the response or a prediction of where things might go next, but an observation. The father of modern disaster research, sociologist Enrico L. Quarantelli, has defined…