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Iran restricts international coverage of election

By Jason Stern/CPJ Middle East and North Africa Research Associate
Authorities are cracking down on election coverage by censoring the press. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)

Some authoritarian governments try to hide their targeting of the press, but not the Islamic Republic of Iran. Officials there brag about it. Ahead of Iran's presidential election Friday, they have much to brag about.

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June 12, 2013 2:44 PM ET | | Comments (1)
Tags: Ali Ahani, Ali Bangi, ASL19, BBC, Censored, Financial Times. Agence France-Presse, France Culture, Freelance, Harassed, Heydar Moslehi, Imprisoned, Internet, Laura Secor, Legal Action, McClatchy, Mohammad Hosseini, Social Media, Surveillance, The Associated Press, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Twitter, Xinhua
CPJ Journalist Security Blog | CPJ, Libya

For conflict journalists, a need for first-aid training

By Lily Hindy/CPJ Guest Blogger
After photographer Tim Hetherington, seen here in Libya, died in April 2011, friend Sebastian Junger started an organization to train freelancers in battlefield first aid. (Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly)

Stop the bleeding. It's a critical and fundamental step in aiding a journalist or anyone wounded in conflict. Hemorrhage is the number one preventable death on the battlefield. And yet large numbers of journalists covering wars and political unrest all across the world are untrained in this life-saving skill. It doesn't need to be that way.

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April 30, 2012 4:41 PM ET | | Comments (1)
Tags: Anthony Shadid, Chris Hondros, Freelancer, International News Safety Institute, Jon Lee Anderson, Killed, Marie Colvin, Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues, Reporters Without Borders, Sebastian Junger, The New Yorker, The Rory Peck Trust, Tim Hetherington

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