In the past 15 years there have been 500 deaths with only 15 percent of the cases being brought to justice for one career. Would it surprise you to know that journalism is a dangerous business and the law isn’t that concerned when a reporter is murdered?
“Every time a journalist is murdered and the killer [...]
Gunmen pulled reporter Serwa Abdul-Wahab from the taxi she was riding in, shooting her once in the head. As the woman laid dead in the street of Mosul, she joined the ranks of journalists who have been killed in Iraq for reporting the news.
There are conflicting reports to who Serwa Abdul-Wahab worked for in Iraq. [...]
The Toronto Star’s company announced on Thursday that is was cutting 169 positions in a combination of voluntary and involuntary staff reductions as they restructure their newspaper division.
Among the companies holdings are Toronto Star, Canada’s largest daily newspaper, and digital properties including thestar.com, Toronto.com, LiveDeal.ca, Workopolis and Olive Canada Network and Harlequin Enterprises.
This move is [...]
A Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist has been freed after two years of being detained by the United States military. Bilal Hussein was handed over to AP colleagues today at a checkpoint in Baghdad.
“I want to thank all the people working in AP … I have spent two years in prison even though I was innocent. [...]
The story of a journalist for the AP has finally got a bit of good news. An Iraqi judicial panel has dismissed all criminal allegations from Bilal Hussein and ordered his release after a detainment of two years and one day with the U.S. military.
The Federal Appeals Court has granted Hussein amnesty on the allegations [...]
They are ticked off and letting the world know it. They are journalists who work in shrinking newsrooms for demanding editors. Now they have angryjournalist.com to shout their criticism from the highest virtual mountain.
An online complaint board angryjournalist.com allows journalists to anonymously let it all out.
What are journalists so angry about? The Internet for one. [...]
Cambodian-born journalist Dith Pran died Sunday morning of pancreatic cancer according to his close friend and associate Sydney Schanberg. The two were colleagues at The New York Times since 1975 when their lives became the basis of “The Killing Fields.”
In 1975 Dith was working as an interpreter and assistant to Sydney Schanberg in Phnom Penh. [...]
The BBC is now appearing on Chinese computers. Chinese authorities often block news sites but the BBC has worked a deal with China to allow citizens of Beijing read international news.
A huge firewall still remains in effect though for Chinese language services on the website and any links in Chinese.
Beijing has never admitted to actually [...]
The last reporters in Tibet have been forced to leave the powder keg country by the Chinese. With the dismissal of the last remaining journalists the only news leaving the region will be that is provided by the Chinese government.
The Tibetans use of the Internet is now heavily restricted and the radio reports in the [...]
A reporter for state run Channel One, Ilyas Shurpayev was found with stab wounds and a belt around his neck in his Moscow apartment. A fire had been started in the unit to possibly cover up the murder scene.
Russian prosecutors have opened a murder investigation for this case. There is no motive for the [...]
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