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By Joel SimonIn August 2008, when the Olympic torch is lit in Beijing, more than 20,000 journalists will be on hand to cover the competition between the world’s greatest athletes. Behind the scenes, another competition will be taking place. If the Chinese government has its way, this one will remain hidden. It will be a…
Amid South Asian Conflict, Remarkable ResilienceBy Bob DietzTraffic is sparse during a late-night run to the Bandaranaike International Airport north of the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo. Because of insecurity caused by war between the Sinhalese-dominated government and Tamil separatists in the country’s north and east, the streets are given over to police and army checkpoints.…
Editor Chauncey Bailey was gunned down three blocks from his Oakland, Calif., office in August, becoming the first U.S. journalist killed for his work in six years. Bailey, editor-in-chief of the Oakland Post and four other weeklies focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area’s African-American communities, was targeted after investigating the alleged criminal activities of…
DECEMBER 31, 2007 Posted January 18, 2008 Muneeza Jahangir, Geo TV ATTACKED, DETAINED According to the Asian Human Rights Commission, Jahangir, a reporter for Geo TV, was filming torn posters and banners of political parties in Lahore. Armed men ordered Jahngir, her sister Sulema, and some of their friends to follow them to the Pakistan…
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.