2005-2014

(CNN) -- Both Time magazine's Michael Ware and CNN's Nic Robertson have spent many days in war zones and know the danger of reporting from Iraq. On Monday, they reflected on the bombing that wounded ABC anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt. Ware and Robertson told CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien that journalists are increasingly being targeted. O'BRIEN: The area where this attack took place on...

NEW YORK – If you made a list of today's great media innovators you'd probably fill it with people whose dazzling ideas are shaping the Internet, television and even radio. Not newspapers, though. The industry is famously risk-averse. You might not need both hands to count the big ideas that have wowed the public with their originality since 1880 when dailies began running photographs, or possibly...

Is the freedom the media enjoy in the world’s democracies being exploited by terrorist organizations? Some people say we should stop reporting on atrocities and the terrorists would be defeated by being starved of the oxygen of publicity. Others do not agree. They say freedom of speech is too important to be stifled, even in the interest of fighting against terrorism. LONDON, 30 January 2006 (RFE...

30 January 2006 – The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today condemned the murders of an Iraqi television journalist reporting on fighting in the city of Ramadi and two Philippine journalists gunned down in their own towns. "I deplore the death of Mahmoud Za'al. All too many journalists have been dying in Iraq," UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro...

Move over, People magazine. The Wall Street Journal is invading your turf. Yes, the business newspaper in the gray flannel suit is emphasizing its human side. Starting today, The Journal is expanding its coverage of people and running a comprehensive index of all the people who are mentioned significantly in that day's newspaper. You probably won't see an article about how Jen is coping with the...

BASRA, Iraq – A roadside bomb targeted a joint Danish-Iraqi military patrol near the southern city of Basra on Monday _ the first attack on Danish troops since protests against a Danish newspaper for publishing widely criticized caricatures of Islam's prophet. There were no casualties in the attack, which occurred as the troops crossed a bridge in a rural area about 60 miles north of Basra, Iraq's...

ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff was with David Bloom outside Iraq days before the NBC correspondent died of a pulmonary embolism, and he immediately raced home to help Bloom's family with the funeral arrangements -- and to comfort his own wife, Lee, and their four children. The reason, Woodruff explained to New York's Daily News soon after his friend's death in 2003, is that "they equate my life and...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Jan 30, 2006 – Masked gunmen on Monday briefly took over a European Union office to protest a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons deemed insulting to Islam's Prophet Muhammad, the latest in a wave of violent denunciations of the caricatures across the Islamic world. The gunmen demanded an apology from Denmark and Norway, and said citizens of the two countries would be...

Hiring bodyguards is standard fare for anyone in a high-profile position in Russia, but when American journalist Paul Klebnikov arrived in Moscow in 2004 to become editor of the Russian-language edition of Forbes magazine, he decided against it. Klebnikov, 41, believed Russia had changed, that the free-for-all days of the 1990s were over. He told friends and family that having a bodyguard seemed...

AMMAN, 29 January (IRIN) - Human right activists have called on the government to drop charges filed against the editor of an opposition party website for posting articles written by parliamentarians more than a year ago. "We want freedom of press as high as the sky, as King Abdullah said recently," said Nidal Mansour, director of the Centre for Defending the Freedom of Journalists (CDFJ). "But...