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...
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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.
• 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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
Pentagon: Shooting of Reuters journalist in Iraq justified Pentagon finds that US soldiers were justified in shooting of Reuters journalist in Iraq LOLITA C. BALDORAP News Jun 17, 2008 13:54 EST http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=216199 The 2005 shooting death of a Reuters journalist in the midst of a firefight in Baghdad was justified because U.S. soldiers believed the camera protruding from an unmarked car was a rocket propelled grenade, the Pentagon's internal watchdog has concluded. In... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
