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Women of Courage – Intimate Stories from Afghanistan
Above all other countries, because of its long conflict since 1979, longer than the lives of many of those now reporting it, Afghanistan has faced several different generations of reporters. They tend to see the country through the prism of the first campaign they were in, a narrow frame of reference, with few shades of […]
English Newspaper Hits Streets of Mexico, Pledging Independence
English language newspaper The News hit the streets of Mexico City today after a five year hiatus. Its directors have promised a more independent tone this time around. In its prior incarnation The News kept its head under the parapet, preferring to keep its advertisers and powerful readers happy rather than rocking the boat.
Matt Frei veers off road hits desk
After 17 years of on the road reporting, much of it in America, the BBC’s Matt Frei finds himself “anchoring” BBC World News America from behind a desk in Washington. And he seems to like the ride so far, I have to admit I’m rather enjoying all the promotional stuff. I was at Washington’s busy […]
Mark Forbes wins ASTSS Media Award 2007
A couple of weeks old maybe, but here’s Mark Forbe’s, who works as a foreign correspondent for The Age, accepting the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies 2007 Media Award for his reporting from Indonesia, Forbes received the award for his coverage of the Garuda Airlines crash at Yogyakarta Airport in March that killed […]
Lady of the Barricade
As exciting and glamorous a companion as you could hope for while travelling down a deserted road toward a smoking horizon, in many respects Alexandra Boulat epitomised the image of the woman photojournalist. French, tall, straight-backed, graceful, striking; she never conducted herself with anything less than poise and style. Brave and funny, her legendary moods […]
Call to action
Aidan White is back in action in this post, after that post, with a call to action announced this week from the International Federation of Journalists for security for mediafolk in Iraq, The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the international community to take special action to confront the human tragedy in Iraq […]
Do journalists need a special safety convention?
Download this episode View in iTunes From a recent debate at the Frontline Club between Geoffrey Robertson QC, Knut Doerman (ICRC), Aidan White (IFJ) and moderated by Prof Stewart Purvis (City University). Aidan White expands on the subject on the IFJ blog, There’s no better example of a country that fails to protect journalists […]
‘Mexican Government is main perpetrator of violence against journalists in Mexico’, says human rights expert
‘The Mexican Government is one of the main perpetrators of violence against journalists in the country and complicit in its continuance,’ according to one of the country's leading freedom of expression organisations. Mexico is reportedly the second most dangerous country to work as a journalist after Iraq. But speaking to MexicoReporter.com last week Dario Ramirez, […]
In Memoriam: Alex Boulat
So we hugged and kissed and promised one anotherWe’d meet up in some shit-hole soon.She came out into the chill night to say how much she’d appreciated the number who had turned out, that I’d been able to come.I touched her hand and we parted – Forever it would seem…. Never again, that joyous smile, […]
Arena de Mexico Mascara-Seller makes nearly $1000 dollars on a good night
José Carmelo is 33 years old and has been working outside the Arena de Mexico selling mascaras for 20 years. He got into this line of work thought his brothers, who used to have another shop outside another lucha venue – el Toreo de Cuatro Caminos. Click on the picture for more photos.
Alexandra Boulat
Photojournalist and co-founder of the VII photo agency, Alexandra Boulat has died at the age of 45 in Paris from complications of a brain aneurysm. She has previously spoken at the Frontline club, This summer, as factional fighting between Fatah and Hamas militants came to a boil inside the Gaza Strip, Alexandra was uncharacteristically absent. […]
Scribe in sculpture
According to PhilStar, plans are afoot in Manilla to erect a sculpture in honour of Philippine STAR founding publisher and foreign correspondent Maximo Soliven. Speaking at Manila city hall on Wednesday Mayor Alfredo Lim said, “We are already talking about putting up a statue of Max Soliven along the Baywalk. He is one of the […]
What does the Tlatelolco Massacre mean today?
MexicoReporter interviewed Salvador Martinez dela Roca, a student leader at the time of the Tlateloloco Massacre, about his thoughts on what the tragedy means today and why people march. Watch the film here, and click here for more on Tlatelolco: Mexico Remembers Massacre Formats available: Windows Media (.wmv), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: newcorrespondent, mexicoreporter, tlatelolco, […]
di Giovanni at the UN
War reporter Janine di Giovanni found herself among generals and activists at the UN this week calling for a halt to the illicit small arms trade, Arms control campaigners who have gathered more than one million signatures on a petition calling for the treaty formation said that in addition to former UN military leaders, some […]
Susman profiled
Baghdad based LA Times reporter Tina Susman discusses working as a foreign correspondent in Editor & Publisher, Susman is witnessing what she calls “one of the biggest, if not the biggest story of our generation as journalists.” She is chief of the Los Angeles Times’ Baghdad bureau, an appointment she received earlier this year. Her […]
From the First World War frontline
Exactly what it says on the tin. WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier consists of letters from the frontline during the First World War brought to you by Harry Lamin via blogpower from beyond the grave. via Pods & Blogs
The most dangerous man in Iraq in London
Fresh from winning a Lovejoy, John F Burns heads to London, The reporter John F. Burns, whom Chemical Ali mocked as “the most dangerous man in Iraq”, has returned to run the London bureau of ‘The New York Times’. He tells Ian Burrell about life working as a journalist inside Baghdad, of his admiration for […]
Dozier gets the Duhamel
CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier received the Helen Duhamel Achievement Award at the Association for Women in Communications National Conference in Orlando last Saturday, Dozier survived a 500-pound car bomb in Iraq last year that killed two CBS colleagues, cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan, along with a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi translator. […]
Gonzalo Guillen exits Colombia
According to the BBC, foreign correspondent Gonzalo Guillen in Colombia has exited the country after receiving numerous death threats since Columbian President President Alvaro Uribe railed against him on October 3rd. [Guillen] has had to flee the country after being criticised by President Alvaro Uribe and receiving death threats. Mr Uribe accused Gonzalo Guillen of […]
Behind the scenes – Shake hands with the devil
Following on from this post, I contacted Zimbabwe based Frontline Club member Robert Adams through the Frontline network. I wanted to ask him about the filming of the behind the scenes documentary that will accompany the film based on Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire’s book, Shake hands with the devil, about the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Where […]
Mexico Remembers Massacre
Ana Ignacia Rodriguez Marquez, now in her sixties, stood in La Plaza de Las Tres Culturas on Tuesday this week, October 2nd, in the same place that she had stood nearly 40 years ago. It was from that very spot that she saw students, men, women and children gunned down by state police and officials […]
Shake hands with the devil
Over on the Frontline Network, Zimbabwe based Robert Adams tells us about a film he helped make about the story behind the filming of Shake hands with the devil – a film based on the book by Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire. Robert tells us, I worked on a movie in rwanda last year – making […]
Burma footage still getting out
You can shut the internet down, but you can’t stop the flow of film. The footage above was taken a couple of days ago and we can only assume it was smuggled out the old fashioned way – on a memory stick, in a shoe, in a cigarette packet etc. I expect there’ll be more […]
Dodging the goons in Rangoon
Scouring the net for Burma-related stuff – there’s getting less and less from the ground – I come across Frontline’s Ben Hammersley and an intriguing wee snippet from the year 2000’s where are they now file, When I got to Rangoon Airport, I knew I would be searched. I had been followed all afternoon – […]
Wanna buy a Pulitzer
One awarded to Newsday for public service newspaper journalism in 1974 appears to have been sold on Ebay for $4,000 via martinstabe and in the comments… “They actually have several Pulitzers on sale, all from Newsday. Kinda depressing, actually.”
“I hate all Iranians”
Seymour Hersh gnaws through the Bush/Cheney case for the next Iraq in errr… Iran.
Burns gets a Lovejoy
Colby College has given its annual Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award to a longtime New York Times foreign correspondent who has won the Pulitzer Prize on two occasions… …John F. Burns is a longtime foreign correspondent for The New York Times who won the Pulitzer in 1993 for his coverage of the destruction of Sarajevo and […]
Easy as ABC
When ABC’s senior foreign correspondent Jim Sciutto crossed into Myanmar today from neighboring Thailand the authorities took away his camera. So he filed his report for World News and the webcast, with the next best thing, his cell phone. link via BoingBoing
Some of us get out quite a lot, doncha know
The Washington Post’s Baghdad bureau chief, Ellen Knickmeyer, lays into a Editor & Publisher‘s David S. Hirschman vis a vis stay-at-home correspondents in Iraq, “It is critical in judging the quality of reporting in Iraq to know how much of it the reporter has actually seen for himself or herself; and therefore it critical for […]
