Joel Simon Letter to the Editor International Herald Tribune May 5, 2008 President-elect Dmitri Medvedev of Russia will have many advantages when he takes the reins from Vladimir Putin this week. Bolstered by record oil prices, the country’s economic outlook is fairly upbeat. Popular support for the new government is high, thanks largely to Putin’s…
Robert Mahoney Published in the Guardian ‘s Comment is Free blog May 2, 2008 As published in the Guardian ‘s blog In Britain, to silence a bothersome journalist you hire a lawyer. In much of the developing world, you hire an assassin. Killing a reporter in Russia or Mexico costs just a few thousand dollars.…
By Ciaran Giles Associated Press March 18, 2008 MADRID, Spain (AP) –A press advocacy group called Tuesday for the immediate release of some 20 journalists serving jail terms in Cuba, five years after they were rounded up as part of a crackdown against dissidents.
By Hannah Allam McClatchy Newspapers February 7, 2008 CAIRO, Egypt: The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists has released its 2007 annual report, “Attacks on the Press.” At least 65 journalists were killed in the past year, the highest death toll in more than a decade.
Joel Campagna Published in The Huffington Post January 11, 2008 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joel-campagna/arab-bloggers-under-press_b_81096.html Much of the Arab blogosphere is abuzz this week. Not about President Bush’s current Mideast tour which began in Israel on Wednesday, but about a thirty-two year old IT executive-turned-blogger currently in prison in Saudi Arabia.
Glenn Kessler The Washington Post December 18, 2007 Reprinted with permission from Washingtonpost.com, Newsweek Interactive Company and The Washington Post The number of journalists killed worldwide spiked to the highest number in more than a decade, with nearly half killed in Iraq, according to an analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based…
Joel Simon Published in The Huffington Post December 18, 2007 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joel-simon/the-year-of-reporting-dan_b_77208.html Do you know the names Salih Said Aldin, Khalid W. Hassan, or Namir Noor-Eldeen? All three were reporters for international media outlets who were killed in Iraq in the last year.