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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…

Murder of crusading journalist spotlights dangers of the profession Joel Simon Published in Newark Star-Ledger October 22, 2006 Russian journalist Anna Polit kovskaya, who was murdered in her apartment building in Moscow on Oct. 7, was a fearless crusader, and, like many of her ilk, she was not always easy company. She received numerous international…

Robert Tanner Associated Press October 17, 2006 The Pentagon has brushed off a request from a journalist organization seeking more information and a decision on Bilal Hussein, an Associated Press photographer held for six months in Iraq without formal charges.

Nicholas D. Kristof Op-Ed Columnist The New York Times October 17, 2006 There is no public evidence that Sami al-Hajj committed any crime other than journalism for a television network the Bush administration doesn’t like.

McClatchy-Tribune News Service Chicago Tribune October 13, 2006 If freedom of the press is the backbone of a democracy, then Russia is growing crippled.

Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss Reuters September 20, 2006 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Journalists are being killed at a pace of more than three a month worldwide, with Iraq the deadliest place for media to work, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday.

Liz Halloran U.S. News & World Report June 12, 2006 http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060612/12mediatakes.htm It’s been more than 16 months since CNN’s former chief news executive Eason Jordan made what even he now regards as inarticulate comments about the U.S. military’s role in the deaths of journalists working in Iraq.

Sebastian Usher BBC News June 9, 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/5057106.stm The media in Saudi Arabia has begun to broach topics such as religious extremism, women’s rights and unemployment that were once strictly off limits. The changes have provided new insight into what has long been one of the most closed and conservative societies in the world.

Ann Cooper Nieman Reports Summer 2006 Issue Brave journalists who challenge authoritarian regimes often ‘enter a postauthoritarian era full of compromises and new repressions.