Susan Forste

Terry Anderson USA Today June 25, 2007 A Mighty Heart is the story of the deliberate, horrifying execution of Daniel Pearl, a top Wall Street Journal reporter, by Islamic extremists in Pakistan in 2002. Starkly and dramatically filmed in the chaotic streets where Pearl worked and was kidnapped, the film — which opened nationwide over…

EDITORIAL The New York Times May 24, 2007 Journalists from around the world who will gather in Moscow next week are poised to stand up for their colleagues in a country where journalism and journalists are increasingly under attack. The 1,000 media representatives plan to establish a commission to finally investigate the growing number of…

By Clarence Page Chicago Tribune May 13, 2007 WASHINGTON – Has journalism become a crime in the Bush administration’s “war on terror”? We Americans are left to wonder. Our military is holding two journalists without charges or any public evidence that they broke any laws.

Robert Mahoney The Guardian online May 3, 2007 http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/robert_mahoney/2007/05/dying_to_tell.html The appalling reality of journalism today in many countries is that a notebook or a camera can be a death sentence. In the past 15 years more than 600 reporters, editors, columnists, photojournalists and media support staff have been killed for their work, according to research…

Samar Fatany Arab News February 21, 2007 I was reading an online discussion between early board members and former directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) regarding the challenges facing the press today. One of the best comments I read was an extract by Ann Cooper, executive director of the committee, in which she…

Michelle Nichols Reuters News February 5, 2007 NEW YORK, Feb 4 (Reuters) – The rise of popularly elected “democratators” in Venezuela and Russia is an alarming new model for government control of the press, the U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists warned on Sunday.

Bob Dietz Published in Wall Street Journal Asia January 8, 2007 As the Taliban embed themselves deeper into Pakistan’s restive provinces along the border with Afghanistan, journalists covering the region are coming under attack and driven away from a story with global consequences for the U.S.-led coalition fighting militant Islamists.

Bob Dietz Published in the South China Morning Post December 12, 2006 China media-watchers are accustomed to seeing moderate pendulum swings in the government’s approach to press freedom. Over the years, rules have been eased, only to be reined back when social conditions or political administrations change.

Rukmini Callimachi Associated Press Newswires December, 8 2006 NEW YORK (AP) – When Iranian journalist Mojtaba Saminejad was sentenced to two years in prison for insulting the country’s Supreme Leader, it was not for an article that appeared in a newspaper. His offending story was posted on his personal Web blog.

Foreign Policy.com November 2006 Every day, journalists around the world risk their lives in the pursuit of truth. Three of them are Colombian photojournalist Jésus Abad Colorado, Yemeni journalist Jamal Amer, and Gambian editor Madi Ceesay. The Committee to Protect Journalists recently honored the trio with its International Press Freedom Award for working in the…