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Somalia's Exiled Press Pack
Rob Crilly,
Speculation continues about the fate of the western journalists kidnapped with their Somali colleagues. As usual with Somalia there are lots of different theories floating around but I learned long ago to steer clear of anyone who claims to know what’s going on.
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Remembering the fallen
Robert Fox,
To those who paid the ultimate price for their journalism
The dedication of Jaume Plensa’s giant glass vase ‘Breathing’ on the roof of the BBC at Portland Place as a memorial to all who have fallen in the cause of news and reporting was moving, fitting and strangely remote. more++- From Forgotten Frontlines: As the Frontline Club's "Forgotten" season gears up, Nancy Durham highlights three memorable documen -
- When hope turns to fear: Hunger, death and fear stalk the streets of Zimbabwe as the election crisis continues. -
- Rough Justice: The tale of the journalism student and the Afghan warlord. One sentenced to death, the other remains -
- Africa's Dark Heart: An unnavigable river, barbarous treatment of the natives by Belgian colonists and despotic rule have -
- Congolese Cliches: Victorian era cliches about Africa are all-too-often the mainstay for reporters and writers -
reviews
Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love and War
Simon Sebag Montefiore,
Book by Owen Matthews
I have read many sagas of Russian families, but this one has facets that make it poignant. It is both tragedy and love story by a distinguished chronicler of the East. Matthews has covered Moscow for Newsweek since 1997 and has witnessed the Chechen, Bosnian and second Iraqi wars. more++
White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
Eamonn Gearon,
Book by by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh
White Cargo tells the story of the 300,000 plus urchins, prostitutes, criminals and those without social blemish or criminal record who were taken from the British Isles during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and sent as forced labour to the American colonies. more++
Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
Najwa Najjar,
Book by Saree Makdisi
How do you review a book that articulates what your life under occupation is like so honestly and clearly that you are left feeling shocked and angry? To an outside world that sees only the issues of “peace” and “terrorism,” occupation loses its significance and becomes a mere abstraction. more++new media
AP vs. Bloggers
Graham Holliday,
The Associated Press riled bloggers in June by asking them to pay for quotes lifted from its reports
As freelance word rates go, $2.50 per word isn’t bad. It’s what you might expect from some of the higher end magazines in the US. However, it might not be what you expect the Associated Press (AP) to charge bloggers for quoting AP material. more++Reporting on the forbidden
Graham Holliday,
RSS feeds and news aggregators are powerful new tools that offer journalists a way around news black
When Georg Blume of Germany and Kristin Kupfer of Austria left from Lhasa train station in the early hours of Thursday March 20 they were the last two foreign journalists to leave Tibet after being forced out by the Chinese authorities. more++
Public or Private?
Graham Holliday,
Social networking sites have brought new opportunities for journalists, and new problems
Social networking sites like Facebook and Bebo are awash with video and pictures uploaded by the general public. News organisations are grappling with what they can and can’t use from the sites, but there is no agreed standard and recent months have seen them make a litany of mistakes. more++