Editing Nicholas Kristof (section)

===Sudan and Darfur===
Kristof is particularly well known for his reporting on [[Sudan]]. At the beginning of 2004, he was among the first reporters to visit [[Darfur]] and describe "the most vicious [[ethnic cleansing]] you've never heard of." He recounted what he called "a campaign of murder, rape and pillage by Sudan" and was among the first to call it [[genocide]]. His biography says that he has made 11 trips to the region, some illegally by sneaking in from [[Chad]], and on at least one occasion, he was detained at a checkpoint when the authorities seized his interpreter and Kristof refused to leave him behind.

Kristof's reporting from Sudan has been both praised and criticized. Robert DeVecchi, past president of the [[International Rescue Committee]], told the [[Council on Foreign Relations]]: "Nicholas Kristof... had an unprecedented impact in single-handedly mobilizing world attention to this crisis. There are undoubtedly hundreds of thousands of refugees in and from the Darfur region who owe their very lives to this formidable humanitarian and journalist."<ref>Robert DeVecchi, introduction to Nicholas Kristof, Council on Foreign Relations, April 2004</ref> New York Magazine said that Kristof "single-handedly focused the world's attention on Darfur",<ref>"The Influentials: Media, ''New York'', May 8, 2006</ref> and the Save Darfur Coalition said that "he is the person most responsible for getting this issue into America's consciousness and the resulting efforts to resolve it."<ref>Save Darfur Coalition statement by David Rubenstein, April 18, 2006</ref> [[Samantha Power]], the author of ''[[A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide]]'', the Pulitzer Prize-winning book on genocide, told an [[American Jewish World Service]] audience that Kristof was probably the person the [[Janjaweed]] militia in Darfur most wanted to kill. In June 2008, the actress [[Mia Farrow]] spoke as Kristof was honored with the Anne Frank Award by declaring: "Nick Kristof was one of the first to publicly insist that the words Never Again mean something for the people of Darfur. For his courage and his conviction in telling tell searing truths, he is the voice of our collective conscience, demanding we bear witness to the first genocide of the 21st century and encouraging us not to sit by while innocents die. Every once in a great while a moral giant appears among us. Nicholas Kristof is that person." For his coverage of Darfur, [[Ann Curry]] of [[NBC]] suggested that Kristof was "the modern journalist who showed courage and leadership comparable to the great [[Edward R. Murrow]]."<ref>{{cite web|author=Curry, Ann | title=Curry Commentary, Gutsy Reporting | url=https://www.today.com/news/curry-commentary-gutsy-reporting-wbna11199306 |date=March 20, 2006|access-date=March 16, 2010}}</ref>

On the other hand, some commentators have criticized Kristof for focusing on atrocities by [[Arab]] militias in Darfur and downplaying atrocities by non-Arab militias. A book by Mahmood Mamdani of Columbia University, "Saviors and Survivors", criticized Kristof's reporting for oversimplifying a complex historically-rooted conflict and packaging it as "genocide". Others, including some critical of Sudan, have sometimes made similar arguments. The Sudanese government has also objected that Kristof's reporting exaggerates the scale of suffering and ignores the nuances of tribal conflicts in Darfur. The Sudan government and pro-government news media criticized him in March 2012 for sneaking into Sudan's [[Nuba Mountains]] region without a visa to report on hunger and bombings there by saying that his illegal entry was "shameful and improper".<ref>{{cite web|work=Sudan Vision|title=When a Congressman Violates the Law|url=http://news.sudanvisiondaily.com/details.html?rsnpid=207589|date=March 11, 2012|access-date=March 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511222658/http://news.sudanvisiondaily.com/details.html?rsnpid=207589|archive-date=May 11, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

More broadly, Kristof's critics have accused him of promoting a "white knight" or "white savior" complex, where his journalism and activism are framed in a way that centers Western interventions as the solution to global problems, rather than empowering local communities to address their own issues. This approach, some argue, reinforces harmful stereotypes and undermines the agency of those Kristof aims to represent.<ref name="slate.com">{{cite magazine |last1=Hess |first1=Amanda |date=June 19, 2014 |title=The White Knight |url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/06/nicholas-kristof-wants-to-save-the-world-with-his-new-york-times-columns-why-are-so-many-of-them-wrong.html |magazine=Slate}}</ref>