Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. This article, which was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, first appeared in the At War newsletter. At the press room at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in a decaying hangar, reporters speak ruefully about what has come to be called the Curse of the Curtain-Raiser. But at Guantánamo it is a perilous pursuit. A New Jersey paper wrote that a local couple was traveling there to “stare into the eyes of five men accused of murdering their son and thousands of other 9/11 victims.”

Source: New York Times August 26, 2020 06:45 UTC