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Journalism in Iraq
Many journalists are living in Iraq and covering the war and reconstruction efforts. Many of these journalists are working for international media outfits from the US and Europe, but Iraqis are also building back their own news and... [more]
Many journalists are living in Iraq and covering the war and reconstruction efforts. Many of these journalists are working for international media outfits from the US and Europe, but Iraqis are also building back their own news and media organizations. This portal is about all journalism efforts in Iraq.
So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits -- and the President -- Failed on Iraq, by Greg Mitchell, a collection of essays that date back from the lead-up to the Iraq war, in 2003, through this fall, is a compelling antidote to the cult of misinformation written by the editor of Editor & Publisher, a journal of the newspaper industry, and one of the oldest magazines in the country. The book features a preface by Bruce Springsteen, and foreword by Joseph L. Galloway. By Jayne Lyn...
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• NEW: Report: Body of Saddam Hussein taken to hometown of Tikrit • NEW: Burial set for Sunday morning, in same cemetery as sons Uday and Qusay • Hussein's final words mock Muqtada al-Sadr, says witness • Former dictator held Quran, refused hood before he was hanged
TIKRIT, Iraq (CNN) -- Executed former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein will be buried Sunday in the same cemetery as his sons, the son of a tribal leader said Saturday. The U.S. military delivered Hussein's body to...
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by Eason Jordan. If an Iraqi police captain by the name of Jamil Hussein exists, there is no convincing evidence of it - and that means the Associated Press has a journalistic scandal on its hands that will fester until the AP deals with it properly.
This controversy and the AP’s handling of it call into question the credibility, integrity, and smarts of one of the world’s biggest, most influential, most respected news organizations, the New York-based Associated Press.
The back story: On...
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The Stars and Stripes Web site appears to have been struck by a hacker early Saturday. Stars and Stripes is the newspaper which has been around for decades and reports on the latest happenings in the United States military. http://www.stripes.com/ Indications are that this may have been related to an automated cyber-attack launched last month that compromised more than 10,000 web pages, including everyday destinations such as travel, government and hobby sites. Such attacks typically...
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Here in Washington, the temperature is expected to reach a steamy high of 103 degrees. Which is nice... I don't have to iron my shirts before I walk to work. No wait, it's not nice. It's hell on earth. Actually, a retraction: hell on earth is Baghdad. 117 degrees, 6 million people, no running water. To recap: the US strategy in Iraq is now to "buy time" for the Iraqi government to stabilize itself. 90% of its population feels that their situation was better before US occupation. 60...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008; Page BW13 19 MONDAY 6:30 P.M. CBS News journalist Kimberly Dozier discusses her new memoir, Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Report--and Survive--the War in Iraq , sponsored by the NPC ...
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Greg Mitchell is an editor of Editor & Publisher , a journal covering the newspaper industry, and whose coverage of the Iraq War has won many awards.
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Of course, managing war news is an established tradition In the only sociological study to date of the substantive content of media coverage during the first six weeks of the Iraq war, Andrew Lindner found that ...
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In March, on the five-year anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the nation's major news outlets reflected on the war and what led us to the half-decade mark.
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News of a miscarriage suffered by the wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair was used to stave off speculation of an early invasion of Iraq, she said in comments printed in newspapers today.
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What with one reporter killed, a group of reporters booted out of parliament, another facing censure for writing a "critical" story and a new report on the harassment of journalists in Kurdistan, it's been ...
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NBC's Richard Engel reports. Today show NBC VIDEO * Journalism in combat May 30: More journalists have died in Iraq than did during World War II.
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VIENNA , Austria - Last year was the second-deadliest on record for journalists, with 93 killed while covering conflicts such as those in Afghanistan , Iraq , Somalia , and Sri Lanka , the International Press ...
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Last year was the second-deadliest on record for journalists, with 93 killed while covering conflicts such as those in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Sri Lanka, the International Press Institute said.
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A reporter and an editor for the Times-Delta were among the winners of the San Joaquin Valley's major journalism award Wednesday night.
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