journalist

Reuters journalist may have been killed by Thai troops (Reuters)

November 16th, 2010

A funeral worker carries flowers in front of the casket of Reuters television cameraman Hiro Muramoto before a wake in Tokyo April 17, 2010. Muramoto, a 43-year-old Japanese national, was shot dead on April 10, 2010 during a violent clash between Thai troops and anti-government protesters in Bangkok's worst political violence in 18 years. REUTERS/Michael CaronnaReuters - Reuters cameraman Hiro Muramoto may have been shot by Thai security forces when he was killed during a street protest in April, state investigators said on Tuesday, calling…

Detained Afghan journalist released by coalition (AP)

September 24th, 2010

An Army carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Army Sgt. Marvin R. Calhoun of Elkhart Ind., upon  arrival at Dover Air Force Base, Del. on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010. The Department of Defense says Calhoun was killed in a helicopter crash in Zabul province, southern Afghanistan on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - An Afghan journalist detained by coalition forces for allegedly spreading Taliban propaganda has been freed, NATO said Friday.


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Gunmen kill Iraqi TV journalist in Mosul (AP)

September 8th, 2010

Iraqi security forces patrol the streets of Baghdad. A car bomb and several roadside blasts killed three people and wounded dozens in Baghdad on Wednesday morning, health and security officials said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AP - Gunmen on Wednesday killed an Iraqi TV journalist, the second to be slain in Iraq in as many days, highlighting the dangers media workers continue to face in…

New photos show Fidel Castro with US journalist (AP)

August 31st, 2010

In this photo released by the state media Cubadebate web site, Fidel Castro, left, stands with U.S. journalist of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, second from right, and Cuban Jewish Community President Adela Dworin, third from right, at the National Aquarium in Havana, Cuba, Monday Aug. 30, 2010. Goldberg is a national correspondent for the magazine who has written on the Middle East and Iran. (AP Photo/Estudios Revolucion, Cubadebate)AP - Cuba on Tuesday released pictures of Fidel Castro with an American magazine correspondent and a Washington-based policy expert, while a Mexican newspaper published an interview in which the…

Argentina Belatedly Celebrates a Journalist Hero (Time.com)

July 31st, 2010

Time.com - When the generals began disposing of thousands of young people in the late 1970s, only one journalist dared stand up for the rights of the “disappeared.” And then…

US reversal on visa denied to Colombian journalist (AP)

July 27th, 2010

AP - The U.S. State Department has reversed its decision to deny a visa to a leading Colombian journalist whose reporting has been highly critical of the country’s U.S.-allied president.

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US denies visa to Colombian journalist (AP)

July 8th, 2010

In this photo taken March 24, 2010, Colombian journalist Hollman Morris smiles while posing for the camera in Bogota. The U.S. government recently denied Morris a visa to attend a prestigious fellowship at Harvard University. (AP Photo/Revista Semana)AP - The U.S. government has denied a visa to a prominent Colombian journalist who specializes in conflict and human rights reporting to attend a prestigious fellowship at Harvard University.


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Iran sentences Newsweek journalist in absentia (AP)

May 11th, 2010

AP - A lawyer says a Newsweek reporter has been sentenced in absentia to more than 13 years in prison and 50 lashes.

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Colombian journalist slain in militia stronghold (AP)

March 20th, 2010

AP - The killing of a veteran radio reporter by a motorcycle gunman in a northwestern state capital reignited concerns Saturday about the safety of journalists in Colombia.

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Mexican police say drug hit men killed journalist (AP)

March 2nd, 2010

Soldiers arrive for a change of guard at Ciudad Juarez March 1, 2010. Mexican drug lord Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, the long-time head of the Juarez cartel over the border from El Paso, Texas, is fending off a virulent offensive by Mexico's most wanted trafficker Joaquin AP - A long-missing journalist in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco was killed by a drug cartel’s hit men who dissolved his body in acid, Mexican authorities said.


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