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Two years on, dead U.S journalist remembered on both sides of the border
Activists and rights groups marched in remembrance of Brad Will yesterday in the state of Oaxaca, marking the second anniversary of the fatal shooting of the U.S videographer. Will was filming violent street battles in the southern Mexican state two years ago when he was shot dead, and controversy has surrounded the search for those […]
Reuters report from Goma
[video:youtube:kirA-0BEDU0] Marlene Rabaud and Nina Schwendemann have put together an excellent report on the situation in Goma. It dates from yesterday and this story is moving fast, but it’s still worth a look. The ten minute report frames this week’s violence in Goma in the recent past relating it to the different interest groups involved. […]
Taxi ride Namibia style
BBC News website reader Henk Dop took this photo in central Namibia where he says Toyota Hilux 4×4 vehicles are popular.
Somalia kidnap deadline looms
The ransom deadline reportedly set by the kidnappers of journalists Amanda Lindhout, Nigel Brennan and their fixer Abdifatah Mohammed Elmi and driver Mahad Clise looms today reports the National Post. The kidnappers are reported to have asked for $2.5 million, but “a travel writer who met Ms. Lindhout last year in Afghanistan says he’s optimistic […]
Thousands flee as Goma flares
[video:youtube:3sRxXiBNQSI] Michael Kavanagh is one of a small group of journalists in Goma, the provincial capital of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on the border with Rwanda. Violence flared yesterday when protesters pelted the UN compound in Goma with stones, “We’re on alert,” Murthy said. “We’re not sure what’s in store for the future, […]
David Loyn talks 200 years in Afghanistan
[video:brightcove:1847310960] David Loyn talked about the 200 years of intervention in Afghanistan at the club last week. If you missed the talk, click the video above it’s well worth watching or listen to the event in iTunes. In The Independent Kim Sengupta follows up with a discussion on engaging with the Taliban, The war this […]
The Pride of Kenya
Kisumu’s ramshackle little airport is being renovated. Locals joke that it is so the runway is big enough to take Air Force 1 when Barack Obama wins and makes his big homecoming, visiting his step-granny an hour or so up the road. (Although not everyone realised it was a joke.) For now though it seems […]
Video: Naked Protesters, the director’s cut
I shot this video for the LATimes a couple of weeks ago, but due to their understandable editorial policy, I had to take out all of the naked shots. But since MexicoReporter.com is an independent publisher, I wanted my version to be complete. The nudity of the protesters is the most important part of the […]
Working in Kabul
Kitty Dimbleby describes the quite ridiculous reality of working as a foreign correspondent in Kabul. It makes you wonder just what the value of the old parachuted in foreign correspondent really is – and what great expense it costs – when they can’t even get to the people to get a story beyond visiting a […]
Nick Meo hits back
Nick Meo, who reported from outside Kandahar moments after an IED attack one week ago, has been coming in for a bit of stick since the report. He hit back earlier this week in the Telegraph with his side of this argument from the frontline, For writing about this, the bloggers have called me a […]
Lunch in Kisumu
Fish and chips at Kisumu’s Imperial Hotel. With condiments So Friday saw me in Kisumu, on the shores of Lake Victoria, and I’m a great believer in the Catholic/Luo tradition of taking fish for my lunch on such occasions. OK so it wasn’t exactly Superfish, or as tastable as Omdurman’s fish breakfast, but the tilapia […]
Life for Pervez Kambaksh
Kim Sengupta, Independent journalist and Frontline Club regular, follows up on the court case of Pervez Kambaksh in Kabul. Kambaksh was originally sentenced to death for downloading information about women’s rights from the Internet. This week he was sentenced to life imprisonment, “I was, of course, hoping to be freed, but the fact that they […]
Croatia Car bomb kills Nacional editor
Ivo Pukanić, the editor of the Nacional Magazine, and the publication’s marketing executive Niko Franić, were killed when a car bomb exploded in the coutyard of the magazine’s offices on Palmoticeva Street in central Zagreb yesterday evening, “I heard a terrible explosion and shaking, at first I thought it was an earthquake, I have not […]
CBC staff protest war reporter lay off
Staff at the Canadian TV channel CBC are up in arms at the laying off of 26 correspondents including reporting “icons” Patrick Brown and Don Murray, “These are journalists who in many ways defined foreign reporting at CBC in the past few decades,” says [a letter to network president Hubert Lacroix] “Some of us grew […]
Press freedom report 2008
The 2008 Press Freedom Index was published on Wednesday by Reporters Without Borders. You can see a full listing of the rankings here, “The post-9/11 world is now clearly drawn,†Reporters Without Borders said. “Destabilised and on the defensive, the leading democracies are gradually eroding the space for freedoms. The economically most powerful dictatorships arrogantly […]
Jonathan Elendu held in Nigeria
Jonathan Elendu, an online journalist based in Michigan, has been detained by security forces since he arrived in Nigeria on October 17, say Reporters Without Borders. Elendu publishes the online publication Elendu Reports. The journalist recently wrote about the economic and ecological disaster happening in the Niger delta and where the documentary filmaker Andrew Berends […]
The places we live
Jonas Bendiksen publishes the latest Magnum in Motion project today. Called The places we live, the project focusses on people who live in four slums across the world; from Caracas to the large Kibera slum in Nairobi, the Dharavi slum in the suburbs of Mumbai and the Indonesian capital Jakarta. He talks about the project […]
Working as a female journalist in Afghanistan
Farida Nekzad, who earlier this week received the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Courage in Journalism award, talked to US News and World Report about her work as a journalist in Afghanistan, Was there ever a time when you reconsidered your decision to stay and report in Afghanistan? There was a female reporter—actually, she owned a […]
What is the Fixer’s Fund?
Prompted by the murder of Ajmal Naqshbandi in Afghanistan in 2007, the Frontline Club has initiated the Fixer’s Fund – a special project to raise money for the families of fixers killed or injured around the world while working with the international media. Please support this worthy cause. The death of fixers and support staff […]
Devils and Details
George Clooney’s people have still not contacted my people over the great “Put Up or Shut Up” debate he proposed last year. George has now at least been to Darfur (albeit for about 24 hours before being struck down by diarrhoea and having to be smuggled back to the comforts of the Rotana Hotel in […]
US Milblogs from Iraq
After the closure of Kaboom: A Soldier’s War Journal, what’s been filling my milblogging void? Well here are some of the ones from Iraq that I’ve been reading recently. Fobbits Need Ice Cream Too. A National Guard Infantry soldier describes life running convoys into Iraq from Kuwait in the best of irreverent styles. “Our battalion […]
From China to Exeter the micro-blogging tool broke the news ahead of the mainstream media.
“Just heard a big blast near badi chowpak. Donno what it was.”Not much of a quote, but it was enough to get the story out. Sandil Srinivasan, or 2s as he is known on the microblogging service Twitter, was in Jaipur on 13 May when the first of a series of nine synchronized bombs exploded […]
The Times / Pete Molder – Big FAIL
Yesterday The Times published a piece about insurgents in Afghanistan. The article by Pete Molder was so badly researched and written that it was not worth the paper it was written on. Left a decent comment on the online blurbs of the article.
Getting ready for ELECTION NIGHT
The Frontline Club and the editors of Monocle invite you to join them to follow live coverage on the American networks of the 56th US Presidential election night. Join leading journalists, policymakers and think tank members as the results unfold state by state. There will also be the latest coverage, commentary and analysis from colleagues […]
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From China to Exeter the micro-blogging tool broke the news ahead of the mainstream media.
“Just heard a big blast near badi chowpak. Donno what it was.”Not much of a quote, but it was enough to get the story out. Sandil Srinivasan, or 2s as he is known on the microblogging service Twitter, was in Jaipur on 13 May when the first of a series of nine synchronized bombs exploded […]
Gissa Job
So I know no-one wants to read yet another post about the future of journalism but it’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently. In particular the future of one particular journalist. After four years reporting on this part of the world it has come to my attention – and possibly the reader of […]
Dutch journalist killed by cluster bomb
[video:youtube:B-epO3SDVYg] A Dutch government investigation has found that a Russian cluster bomb killed a television cameraman in Georgia in August, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. Russia denied using cluster munitions during its brief war with Georgia in August, but human rights groups say both sides unleashed the widely denounced weapons. link We previously linked to […]
Video: Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard’s daily hassles
Traffic, protesters and street vendors are some of the biggest daily headaches for Mexico City mayor Marcelo Ebrard. This video corresponds to a profile of Mayor Ebrard written by Ken Ellingwood. “Marcelo Ebrard has turned this balmy city into an ice skaters’ wonderland. He’s conjured sandy beaches far from the sea. He’s made hordes of […]
Saddam Hussein’s nephew blogging?
This is the sort of post that comes with a significant disclaimer – I can’t entirely verify the authenticity of the blog. But I thought I’d point you in the direction of a blog whose author claims to be one of Saddam Hussein’s nephews, Al-Hussain Arshad Yassin. In this post Al-Hussain offers a defence of […]
