Escapees give hope in cases of journalists missing in Syria
August 28, 2013 1:05 PM ET
It has now been an entire year since Al-Hurra correspondent Bashar Fahmi, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, and freelancer Austin Tice, of the United States, went missing in Syria. But the recent liberation of two freelance journalists held for...
Journalist deaths spike in 2012 due to Syria, Somalia
December 18, 2012 12:01 AM ET
Syrian violence contributed to a sharp rise in the number of journalists killed for their work in 2012, as did a series of murders in Somalia. The dead include a record proportion of journalists who worked online. A CPJ special...
Video: Risk, reward, and loss in Syria
December 18, 2012 12:01 AM ET
Syrian leaders tried to impose a media blackout on the country's civil war. They failed. As CPJ's Dahlia El-Zein reports, foreign journalists responded by smuggling themselves into the country, while Syrians picked up cameras and uploaded videos online. They...
Yamamoto's death reflects Japan's media reach, duty
August 21, 2012 4:39 PM ET
My colleagues and I were saddened to learn of the death of Mika Yamamoto, a Japan Press video and photo journalist who was killed while covering clashes in Aleppo, Syria, on Monday. The moment was all the more poignant...
