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Writers and NGOs: Supreme Court Ruling is a ‘Disgrace’
Writers, journalists and non-governmental organisations have called the Supreme Court’s decision at the end of last week a ‘disgrace’. The Court ruled that the rights of journalist Lydia Cacho’s had not been sufficiently violated to warrant legal action against Puebla State Governor Mario Marin. In a show of solidarity for the journalist, twenty of the […]
A Journey through Putin’s Russia Part 2
Our drive to Samara is helped along grandly by our miserable second Tatar translator Ilnur who drones on continuously about Tatar self determination, the Golden Hordes (heard that before), how immorally behaved his other housemates were when he studied in a university in the UK , Islam , and why don’t British Tourists visit his […]
Bearing up in Khartoum
Take one teacher, one teddy bear and three British journalists. Throw them into the centre of Khartoum, keep the hacks high on lemon soda, a teacher jailed, the local media rabid, the diplomats flustered and what’ve you got? A day or two in the life of foreign correspondents, Rob Crilly, Andrew Heavens and Amber Henshaw, […]
Protection for war reporters
Seven countries including the United States and Britain have joined in a new move to ensure the safety of journalists in war zones, the International Red Cross said. France, Germany, Australia, Canada and Denmark also committed themselves to accept a new nonbinding accord on protecting correspondents in line with the Geneva Conventions on the conduct […]
Supreme Court Decides Cacho’s Rights Not Violated Enough
The fight for press freedom in Mexico was dealt a serious blow this week after the country’s Supreme Court found that the rights of journalist Lydia Cacho were not violated enough by the state governor of Puebla, Mario Marin, for action to be taken against him. The Court rejected a report by its own Commission […]
Naked Protest on the Streets of Mexico City
[video:bliptv:516829] El Movimiento de los 400 Pueblos has been protesting naked in Mexico City since 2002. At least 300 men dance naked in some of the city’s major squares and streets to draw attention to their cause, whilst the women from the movement collect money from passers-by and give out pamphlets detailing their cause. One […]
Marcus Bleasdale back from Congo
Frontline Club member Marcus Bleasdale has spent the best part of the last decade in and out of Congo taking photographs of the ongoing conflict. As well as contributing to newspapers and magazines, Marcus documented his work in the book One hundred years of darkness. The book was recognised in the best photojournalism books of […]
Heathcliff O’Malley is blogging
And what’s that new name at the top of the page? Frontline club member Heathcliff O’Malley joins the From the frontline blog ranks today. He’s a photographer, often found within the pages of the Daily Telegraph. He’s on the road in Russia, following President Vladimir Putin across the steppes. Go read his blog. If you […]
AFP launch Asia Media Award
Agence France-Presse announced the launch of the Kate Webb Award last night in Hong Kong. Kate worked for AFP in Asia for sixteen years. The New Zealand born foreign correspondent covered many wars, coups and conflicts throughout the region. Notoriously, she was captured by North Vietnamese soldiers in Cambodia in 1971. Along with five others, […]
A journey Through Putin’s Russia Part 1
My trip to Russia started with a phone call from the picture desk, saying that they might want me to go to Russia in the next few days . It all becomes clear the following morning , if I want to go I have only a couple of hours to apply for a Visa and […]
Supreme Court Finds Govenor Guilty of Violating Journalist’s Rights
Puebla state authorities have been found guilty by the Supreme Court in Mexico of violating the rights of investigative journalist Lydia Cacho, who was arrested by Puebla police in December 2005 after publishing a book about a pedophile ring in Cancun. The judgment is a victory for Mexican journalists and those campaigning for freedom of […]
Spreading the media word across the Mexican border
This story appeared in Campaign Magazine: the website requires a subscription. English-language titles in Mexico have failed to establish a sturdy web presence. Have they missed a trick? Immigration between Mexico and the US makes headlines around the world. Thousands of Mexicans cross the frontier dividing the two countries every day – illegally and legally. […]
Conquer or die
[video:youtube:VpBeRvhRTw4&eurl] Afghan Knights – “Conquer or die” – Oh dear, oh weary, weary dear… This straight to video crapfest depicts the war in Afghanistan. For value added super realism it is filmed in Kamloops, British Columbia in a country called Canada. “Exotic” Kamloops, as Afghanistanica calls it, is approximately 6524.398 miles from Kabul according to […]
Reuters get their mojo converged
[video:youtube:L_OJGeamwbs] There’s a lot of talk (too much???) about “media convergence” and here’s some more in a video filmed during a roundtable at Reuters to discuss their mobile journalism project. The news agency is experimenting with small handheld Nokia recording equipment. While it’s not the norm now, it’s a fascinating look at where “convergence” is […]
Washington Post article on Oaxaca gets a beating
An article published in this weekend’s Washington Post, called “Oaxaca: One Year Laterâ€, has prompted heavy criticism from people living in the southern Mexican state which this time last year was the scene of huge civil unrest and what one critic describes as ‘some of the worst human rights abuses in recent Mexican history; detaining, […]
Foreign correspondent’s family killed in Iraq
Deutsche Welle reports that eleven members of the family of an Iraqi foreign correspondent based in Jordan having been killed in Baghdad, Armed men have massacred eleven family members of an Iraqi foreign correspondent, including seven children. The correspondent himself, Dia al-Kawas called the AFP news agency from Amman in Jordan where he works at […]
War weary
Jane Hansen, former TV journalist, foreign correspondent and war reporter, talks about her new book Three Seasons and how it’s not the excitement of “the job” that has made her “war weary” these past few years, Jane talks about her decision to delay starting a family with Andrew because the excitement of a career she […]
A correspondent cooks
Andrew Whitehead, the BBC’s former man in Delhi, has a new book out called A Mission in Kashmir. More interestingly, he’s cooking Spanish food for Indian journalists and their families in New Delhi. The Business Standard’s Rrishi Raote has more, He was in Delhi for the launch of his book, A Mission in Kashmir, but […]
Lola Almudevar killed in car crash
BBC video journalist Lola Almudevar and four others have died and four others have died in a pileup in Bolivia, which took place en route to the city of Sucre in the early hours of Sunday. Eduardo GarcÃa Gil, a Spanish reporter with Reuters, was also said to have been injured in the accident. link […]
Caroline Wyatt defence correspondent
Club member and ex Paris BBC correspondent, Caroline Wyatt has been named as BBC defence correspondent across TV, radio and online. From journalism.co.uk Wyatt returns to the BBC where she was previously Paris correspondent, a position which she held from June 2003 to August 2007. She has also worked as the BBC’s correspondent for Moscow, […]
Press Freedom Report Paints Grim Picture for Latin America
Journalists in Latin America continue to be the victims of murders, threats and harassment when investigating sensitive subjects such as corruption and drug trafficking, according to the latest report from the World Association of Newspapers, and media in Mexico remains a target of violent attacks. The report mentions the three media workers shot dead in […]
Grilling Johnston
Alan Johnston is answering questions on the Guardian’s Organ Grinder blog NOW…. Here’s a snippet, Do you think you’ll go back to Gaza sometime? AJ: I lived in Gaza for three years, it became my home and a huge part of my life. I’d love to go back and see many people. It would be […]
“Sucking at the hind tit of power”
[video:youtube:jpuzOhvaE3c] The Independent newspaper’s Robert Fisk dons the hobnail boots and kicks the crap out of the US media. Well, not quite but, official sources say, he’s not very happy with the state of mediaplay stateside. The video is taken from the recent Frontline Club event in New York. The Guardian’s Ghaith Abdul-Ahad had a […]
China crisis
The Foreign Correspondents Club of China sends a letter to members today detailing the treatment dished out to three Swiss journalists and their Chinese assistants in two separate incidents while reporting from the Chinese sticks earlier this week. Swiss TV reporter Barbara Luethi relates the story of her interrogation at the hands of plain clothes […]
David Axe heads to Mogadishu
David Axe is a journalist and cartoonist and he blogs at the oddly titled War is boring. He’s just arrived in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, to report on the “insurgency” and the work of the African Union. I fired off a few questions to David about his assignment in Somalia and how he intends […]
War, truth and the media today
A short film made for the Media workers against the war conference at the London School of Economics last weekend, Amid all the current agonising about media integrity – and at a time when BBC management is preparing to cut news resources even further – can there be any area more worthy of scrutiny […]
A year on but still no explanation….
José Antonio GarcÃa Apac, editor of the regional weekly Ecos de la Cuenca, based in the state of Michoacán was last seen on this day last year. He was on his way home to his wife and seven children when he disappeared. Since that date, the culprits for his disappearance have not been presented by […]
Shooting War
Shooting War is a graphic novel set in the Iraq of 2011. Journalist Anthony Lappe drew on his experience working for the New York Times in Iraq to create the book with artist Dan Goldman.
In male world of Mariachi, women sing their own tune
In Plaza Garibaldi, female musicians muscle in on the men. (This article appeared in The News, Mexico on Saturday November 17th. They’re yet to launch a website. See below for a video of the band singing) Dusk falls on a regular Thursday night in Mexico City’s Plaza de Garibaldi and the capital’s multitude of mariachi […]
Dumitru Tinu case re-opens
From the International Herald Tribune, Prosecutors on Monday exhumed the body of an influential Romanian journalist after years of speculation over his death in an auto accident in 2003. An inquest found that Dumitru Tinu, the managing director and majority owner of influential daily Adevarul, died after losing control of his car, which skidded and […]
