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Which One is the Chief`s Hut?
The chief`s house in Dungu, Democratic Republic of Congo It`s the one with the satellite dish
Carjacked!
I hit the ground in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, late on Monday night, sans my photographer, who was due in a day or two. Twelve hours later I was staring down the barrel of a well-used AK-47 near N’Djamena city center. I’d been carjacked. Since I’m sitting here, wired to one of the city’s […]
Bribe culture in action
Corruption within Mexico’s law enforcement agencies is reputedly rife, and recent figures show that people here spent more on bribes last year than they did during 2005. But it’s always interesting to see hearsay happen, and yesterday I had the pleasure of witnessing the power of the bribe first hand.
Live tonight: Philip Gourevitch on Iraq
Download this episode View in iTunes You can now view the event here. Philip Gourevitch, author, journalist and longtime staff writer of the New Yorker will be talking about Iraq, Abu Ghraib and his most recent book, Standard Operating Procedure, with the journalist Nick Fielding at the Frontline Club tonight. More details on the event […]
Misha Glenny wants less pressure, more informed hacks
Blogging from the International Press Institute world congress in Belgrade, Roy Greenslade reports on a talk by former BBC correspondent Misha Glenny on the changing work pattern for BBC foreign correspondents. Misha calls for more informed journalists and less pressure to report on multiple platforms, “When I started at BBC, the model of a foreign […]
War reporting cost me my marriage
Richard Engel talks to VOA News about his work as a war reporter for NBC and the toll it has taken on his personal life. Engel says his job cost him his marriage. He was recently promoted to the position of NBC Chief Foreign correspondent and he is based in Beirut. He also released a […]
Interview with Lara Marlowe
Lara Marlowe, Irish Times foreign correspondent, has reported from Algeria, Serbia, Iraq and the wider Middle East. She talks to the Media Channel about how she became a foreign correspondent and about that dreaded 21st century term “embedding”, The only embedded journalists I came across were in the accreditation service inside the Green Zone. There […]
Cameras not guns
David Schlesinger, Reuters editor-in-chief, writes on the Reuters Editors blog about journalism safety and the case of Fadel Shana – the Reuters cameraman who was killed by an Israeli tank shell, A military that has sophisticated intelligence and identification methods can learn to tell a camera from a gun. A military that works hard to […]
Reuters killing justified
The Press Gazette reports that a US government inquiry into the killing of Reuters soundman Waleed Khaled and the wounding of cameraman Haider Kadhem in Iraq 2005 was justified, The Office of the Inspector General of the US Department of Defense report into the killing of soundman Waleed Khaled and the wounding of cameraman Haider […]
Iraqi TV reporter killed
A Iraqi TV reporter in the northern city of Mosul has been shot and killed according to reports just coming in from AP, An Iraqi policeman says gunmen emerged from a car Tuesday and opened fire on Muhieddin Abdul-Hamid near his apartment in eastern Mosul. An official with Iraqiya state TV says the 50-year-old journalist […]
In the frame with Véronique de Viguerie
Véronique de Viguerie‘s image on Afghan men in Kandahar is profiled on the excellent Verve Photo blog, “I took this picture in Kandahar. I was doing a story on the growing influence of the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. I was told that the Taliban were using poor people to work for them. So early morning […]
Broadcasting House memorial
The BBC New Broadcasting House Memorial web page accompanies the unveiling of the Breathing sculpture built to commemorate the deaths of journalists killed in the line of work. Three of the names mentioned on the memorial page will be familiar to Frontline Club members. Former Frontline TV agency journalists Nick Della Casa, his wife, Rosanna, […]
Bloggers around the world being arrested
More bloggers are being arrested by repressive regimes than ever before according to this article in The Guardian. The report that the article is based on can be found here. It says that collectively bloggers have served 940 months in jail and that ‘China, Egypt and Iran account for more than half of all arrests […]
In memoriam
BBC Radio 4 newsreader Harriet Cass reads a poem in honour of murdered journalists. Click the image above to listen. For more on the memorial to murdered journalists see this post. via sambrook UPDATE: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon gives a speech at the opening ceremony.
Celebratory Gunfire
Some audio from my recent trip to Beirut. This is what celebratory gunfire from within a densely-populated urban centre sounds like – the Lebanese ‘government’ reversed two decisions that had provoked Hezbollah to take over much of Beirut, and people were pretty happy. As always, there were casualties from the large amounts of falling lead […]
Michael Norton dies age 66
Michael Norton worked as the AP Haiti correspondent. He spent the best part of 20 years covering the Caribbean republic. He died in Caguas, Puerto Rico on Sunday after a long battle with cancer, Unlike many who covered Haiti from hotels, Norton lived like many Haitians – struggling through power cuts, water shortages, street violence […]
Dozier receives Peabody tonight
Kimberley Dozier will recieve her Peabody award for journalism tonight. She talks to David Bauder of the Associated Press about her work, the award, her desire to go overseas again and getting recognised in the supermarket, “When people recognize me in a grocery store or something, it’s like, ‘Oh, you’re that reporter chick who got […]
Bags of journalism
Frontline bloggers, Rob Crilly and Alex Strich are on the move today. Rob is off to the DRC and Alex is on his way back to Kabul before moving on to Kandahar. They’ve both blogged what’s in their kitbag. For Rob, it’s back to the future, Sony Tape Recorder – call me old school, but […]
Who exactly were the detainees at Guantánamo?
That’s the question a small band of journalists at The Miami Herald set themselves the task of answering in what the newspaper calls “one of the most methodical and challenging reporting projects anyone has undertaken this year.” The story took over eight months and involved travel to eleven countries. The journalists found 66 former detainees […]
Flying into Baghdad
New York Times photographer Michael Kamber describes his most recent flight into Baghdad, Circling over Baghdad, the pilot corkscrews down to avoid ground fire. Landing here, your imagination does the work, scanning the ground for the flash of something being launched, as if you could do anything anyway. But still, it’s good to worry. link
A year on
Alan Johnston talks to The Times about his life just over a year since he was kidnapped in Gaza. July will mark one year since his release, “I tried to make it a normal day, but I could remember everything that was happening to me that day a year ago,†he says. “I could remember […]
James Nachtwey on hyperawareness
James Nachtwey, the multi-award winning war photographer, talked about his work at the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville at the weekend. Photo District News has more, “People have asked me many times how I’ve survived so many battles,” [said Nachtwey]. “It’s really a matter of being mindful of what’s going on around you, […]
This is Mike India in North Kivu
Goma flyktninger 18, originally uploaded by cyclopsr. Michel Sibilondire runs a radio station in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. After a decade of war the UN hired him to run the radio show which is broadcast in four languages. The show has run for four years and, in between the Rwandan and […]
Pilger scoops media award
[video:youtube:to6uNUTf8g4] John Pilger’s War on Democracy fought off competition from the BBC Storyville documentaries Taxi to the Dark Side and Please Vote for Me to take the award for best TV Documentary at last night’s One World Media Awards. link
All have their story here
From 10pm tonight a shaft of light will light up the sky above BBC Broadcasting House in London. Every evening at the same time, the ten metre high glass and steel structure will be turned on as a memorial to journalists who have died doing their job. Relatives of some reporters who were killed will […]
Returning to Afghanistan
Flying back to Kabul tomorrow and then on to Kandahar later in the week. Photo above is of the kit I’m taking with me (minus clothes and my aging Sony Vaio FS750P/W). Am looking forward to seeing how my new mini Asus copes in Kandahar (dust, heat, speed etc). Finally replaced my old Ipod mini […]
What’s in my Kit Bag
Back on the road tomorrow, heading for the Democratic Republic of Congo. If all goes according to plan, we’ll be disappearing deep into the jungle. Here’s the gear I’ll be taking: Sony Vaio S Series – at 13.3in it’s a smallish size notebook but still big enough to feel comfortable. Performance has been slower ever […]
Chad Rebels on the Attack?
First the news came to me from two different sources. One of my fixers in eastern Chad called yesterday to say that an airplane had been shot down and “my country is dangerous right now.†Around the same time, a source told me there were big things going on in Chad that weren’t getting reported […]
Zoriah in the red zone
Latest shots from Zoriah inside the red zone in Baghdad are on Flickr. Click the image above to watch the slideshow. His blog is here.
Alex heads back to Afghanistan
Live from the streets of London via Twitterpower. Alex begins the process of heading back to Afghanistan.
