News
Killed in Baghdad
Ali Shafeya Al-Moussawi, Special Correspondent with the excellent Alive in Baghdad, was shot and killed in his home in Habibya, part of the Sadr city, on December 14th. The Alive in Baghdad blog has more, On Friday the 14th at 11:30pm Baghdad time, Iraqi National Guard forces raided the street where Ali’s house is, one […]
Ice patches and Inverters – Dec 07
It’s been a week of close calls and minor disasters here in our beautiful little corner of the universe. Just as we thought the learning curve was beginning to flatten out. Since moving to the ranch nearly two incident-strewn years ago, we have struggled through floods, fought off erosion, cowered under the debris of forest […]
Beyond the Green Zone
Former Alaska mountain guide Dahr Jamail had no formal journalism training or experience when he picked up a laptop and digital camera and headed to Iraq initially emailing stories back to a small group of friends. He soon got picked up by independent news services. Beyond the Green Zone is a compilation of Jamail’s reports, […]
Coughlin leaves Telegraph
Daily Telegraph executive foreign editor Con Coughlin has left the paper’s staff after his stint running the department saw eight correspondents depart in a wave of sackings and resignations. Coughlin left his staff position on December 1, without a payoff. He will continue to write his Inside Abroad column and work from the Telegraph’s Victoria […]
Reportage Press doubles output
Reportage Press is run by Frontline Club founder member Charlotte Eagar. It has published four books since May and plans to double output into 2008. Eagar’s own debut novel – The Girl in the Film – set during the seige of Sarajevo is due out in March. Also due out on Reportage is Daily Telegraph […]
Shelley Rohde dies
In 1954, while working for The Daily Express Shelley Rohde became the first female foreign correspondent assigned to Moscow when she was aged just 21, She learned Russian and when former Russian premier Nikolai Bulganin and communist party chief Nikita Khrushchev visited Britain in the late 1950s she acted as an interpreter for the press […]
7th Miguel Gil Moreno Journalism Prize
The Miguel Gil Moreno Foundation and Random House Mondadori announce their competition for the seventh Miguel Gil Moreno Journalism Prize. Journalists from any country, working in any medium, are welcome to apply. Entries must be translated into Spanish. Deadline: March 24. The prize was founded in honor of Moreno, an independent correspondent and war reporter […]
Who talks about them?
[video:youtube:wamMBgt3Uic] Hesain Khadir is an exiled journalist from Iraq living in Britain. He recently spoke at the University of Stirling about the life of Iraqi journalists living and working in Iraq, “You are banning yourself from expressing yourself freely… People of Scotland realise the pain of what happened with Alan Johnston. There are huge numbers […]
MexicoReporter on the LATimes Blog
MexicoReporter.com produced a film for the LATimes blog here in Mexico City this week about the celebrations surrounding Dia de la Virgen. See the post and movie here: Every year, on the north side of Mexico City, a remarkable sight begins to materialize around mid-December. Thousands of worshippers of the Virgen de Guadalupe converge on […]
Video: Mexico’s Faithful Make Annual Pilgrimage On Dia de la Virgen
Wooden crosses bearing the bloodied effigy of Jesus and huge framed pictures of the la Virgen de Guadalupe are quite literally walking down Mexico City’s Calzada de Guadalupe. Boys with gelled hair labor with crosses strapped to their backs and middle-aged women lumber along the tree-lined avenue with enormous pictures roped to their shoulders in […]
Blog Wars at Frontline Club
Go catch the screening of Blog Wars, a film directed by James Rogan, at the Frontline Club next week Followed by Q&A with director James Rogan and Producer Phil Craig, Mon 14th January, 7.30pm Price: £5.00 – [The film] takes a look at the rise and influence of blogs in politics as it follows several […]
Shanker gets frisked in Kabul
Thom Shanker, Washington Correspondent for the New York Times, relates three tales of his recent blast through Djibouti, Afghanistan, Iraq and Bahrain on the trail of US Defence Secretary Robert M. Gates, Outside the palace walls, correspondents went through metal detectors, and had their backpacks searched — that’s routine. But heavily armed security guards also […]
Dick McGowan dies
Former war reporter and White House correspondent Richard “Dick” McGowan died on Monday. He worked as a correspondent with the Army’s 7th Infantry Division during the Korean War, mainly for Stars & Stripes and Army Times where he, “brought the front lines to the front porch with combat stories about hometown GIs.” He later went […]
Working in the Korengal valley
In the latest edition of Vanity Fair, Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington talk about working on a story from the Korengal Valley frontline in Afghanistan. The duo were embedded with Second Platoon for ABC News.
Baghdad catwalk
The Daily Telegraph’s Colin Freeman finds his fashion sense shot to shreads by his translator upon a arrival in Baghdad, ”Forget those foreign-looking clothes, dress like an Iraqi,” he advised. In modern-day Baghdad, however, that didn’t mean doing a Lawrence of Arabia number in elegent Arab robes and headdress. Instead, it meant a pair of […]
At War
[video:youtube:iEVmbED4_0U] At War, a film by Scott Kesterson embedded with Army National Guard 41st Brigade, is due out in 2008 and this is the third trailer – via Afghanistanica
Local reporter shot dead in Northern Mexico
A local reporter, who covered agriculture and occasionally crime in the western Mexican state of Michoacán, was shot dead on Saturday night. Gerardo Israel GarcÃa Pimentel, who wrote for the daily La Opinión de Michoacán, was found in the stairway of the car park of the hotel in which he lived. He had been shot […]
A journey through Putin’s Russia part 4
We arrived in Tyumen early morning after another overnight train ride and were greeted by our next guide, a BP interpreter who on first impressions appears to be a bit of a snob, but we warmed to her slowly, first impressions after a rather sleepless journey can mess with your judgement skills. After checking into […]
Alan Johnston leads media feeedom conference
Alan Johnston, former BBC corrrespondent in Gaza, recently held hostage, will speak on the problems of reporting conflict at a major NUJ conference, ‘New Threats to Media Freedom – how we fight back’ on 26 January. Building on the success of the union’s Journalism Matters campaign, the conference, sponsored by NUJ London Freelance Branch, is […]
Courage and Lifetime Awards
The Washington D.C.-based International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) is currently seeking nominations for its Courage in Journalism Awards and Lifetime Achievement Award. Last day to nominate someone is March 1, 2008. The Courage in Journalism Awards honor female journalists from all over the world who have “demonstrated extraordinary strength of character in pursuing their profession […]
Lyse Doucet lands news award
BBC Foreign Correspondent Lyse Doucet wins in the news and current affairs category of the Women in Film and Television (WFTV) awards announced today.
A Journey through Putin’s Russia Part 3
For the next stage of our trip we took another train to Yekaterinburg for about 24 hours in second class where we had to share a compartment with an elderly couple Konstantin and Galia on their way to the oil town of Nizhnevartovsk for a wedding. They shared with us their food for journey including […]
Axe not dead
We interviewed David Axe a couple of weeks ago before he headed into Somalia. He blogs today that, contrary to pre-assignment popular opinion, he did not die, Somalia: so what’s it all about? It’s about how divisive internal politics can prevent the resolution of a conflict that pretty much everyone agrees must end. It’s about […]
The Finer craft of Foreign Correspondence
Over at the brainfilled Yale College in the States it appears that former Washington Post embed in Iraq, Jonathan Finer LAW ’09 and self-confessed “burned out” reporter, is set to teach a residential-college seminar titled “The Craft of Foreign Correspondence.” If Finer Law ’09 could have his way, the course would have more of a […]
Where is Moldova?
Looking for a brain teasing, stocking filler this festive season? Where is Moldova? is a wannabe Foreign Correspondent’s first step on the ladder and a don’t-wannabe a Foreign Correspondent anymore’s memory stretcher. So good, The Times, just named it numero uno present this Christmas.
The upside of downtime in Paris
Frontline club founder member Bruce Palling ruminates in More Intelligent Life magazine on the upside of a job that “pays peanuts” as he spends a bit of downtime at the doesn’t-cost-peanuts Le Cinq restaurant in Paris, When foreign correspondents socialise abroad, one thing they never complain about is the calibre of conversation. The work may […]
War News Radio
All the wars, all of the time. Well OK, some of the wars, some of the time. War News Radio reports on and from Afghanistan and Iraq and is cobbled together by students at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. The weekly 29-minute programme is free to listen to. The station aims to shed light on, [the] […]
BBC staff get Russian stick
This just in from AP, via Pravda, British Broadcasting Corp’s employees have been attacked in Moscow over the past two weeks. The company was investigating whether they were targeted because of their work. The attacks took place on three different dates in three different locations since Nov. 24, BBC World Service spokesman Peter Connors said […]
Amanpour to America
After eight years,”probably the world’s highest paid reporter” and occasional Frontline Club MC, Christiane Amanpour is to up her British sticks and head over the pond to New York. The Scotsman profiles the CNN stalwart ahead of the move, Her dispatches from Berlin as the wall fell; from Iraq during the first Gulf War; and […]
The Demise and Rise of the Foreign Correspondent
“The trench coated foreign correspondent as Gregory Peck played him in the movies is suddenly almost extinct” So began Christopher Lydon on the Open Source podcast in February, 2007 in reponse to the closure of three foreign bureaus of the Boston Globe. The Globe cutbacks followed the axing of foreign staff across the Daily Telegraph. […]
