by jpitney | Apr 24, 2023 | Afghanistan, Journalism, Journalists
From the Committee to Protect Journalists: Taliban authorities must allow Washington Post journalist Susannah George to return to and work from Afghanistan and should stop all attempts to restrict the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. In a...
by jpitney | Nov 15, 2022 | Afghanistan, Journalism, Journalists, Ukraine
The International Center for Journalists recently saluted colleagues who produce outstanding news coverage with important impacts, often reporting from places where journalists risk their lives to do their work. A trio of Ukrainian journalists who produced...
by jpitney | Aug 12, 2022 | Afghanistan, Journalism, Journalists
THIS BLOG WILL PAUSE BRIEFLY. POSTING WILL RESUME ON AUGUST 23. Ayaz Gul at VOA: A survey finds that Afghanistan has lost nearly 60 percent of its journalists, especially women reporters, and 40 percent of its national media outlets since the Taliban regained control...
by jpitney | Aug 31, 2021 | Afghanistan, Journalism, Journalists
At Reuters, Stephen Gray and colleagues write about Danish Siddiqui, a 38-year-old star photojournalist for Reuters. He died in Afghanistan this summer. Siddiqui’s death underlines the risks faced by journalists, both in the international media and in local outlets,...
by jpitney | Aug 27, 2021 | Afghanistan, Journalism, Journalists
Lauren Wolfe at Washington Monthly: Thousands of foreign nationals are still being evacuated from Afghanistan, even as violence increases around the Kabul airport, including two explosions Thursday that killed at least 12 American troops and dozens of Afghan...
