by jpitney | Oct 14, 2023 | Israel, Journalism, Journalists, Middle East
From the Committee to Protect Journalists CPJ is investigating all reports of journalists killed, injured, detained or missing in the war, including those hurt as hostilities spread to neighboring Lebanon. In the first seven days of fighting, at least 11 journalists...
by jpitney | Sep 2, 2023 | Journalism, Journalists, Russia, Ukraine
From AFP: Russia has added respected journalist and Nobel prize co-recipient Dmitry Muratov to its list of foreign agents, a label authorities commonly use to stifle critics. The move targeting the editor of Russia’s top independent publication, Novaya Gazeta, is part...
by jpitney | May 14, 2023 | Journalism, Journalists
The Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation issued the following statement to mark the 20th anniversary of the deaths of Michael Kelly, David Bloom and Elizabeth Neuffer, and other journalists who died while reporting on the Iraq War. “This April and May, we remember...
by jpitney | May 6, 2023 | Dreier, Journalism, Journalists
Luke Mullins of The Washingtonian interviewed Barbara Cochran, president of the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation: Our chairman, [former Republican Congressman from California] David Dreier, had retired from Congress in 2012. He was, among other things, serving...