2005-2014

Reporting on war and large-scale conflict is among the most challenging assignments reporters or photographers can face. Such experiences can have profound and lasting effects on a journalist. Dana Hull, a reporter for the San Jose Mercury News who covered the Iraq war for Knight Ridder in 2003, said: "Your war experience will just sort of live on in you, regardless of how many years it's been."...

Two Chechen men charged in the July 2004 murder of Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov in Moscow will be tried in secret at the direction of the Russian prosecutor-general. The prosecutor's office said Monday that it was ready to proceed against the two defendants. Paul Klebnikov had written a number of books and articles that angered his subjects. In 2001 his bestseller "Godfather of the Kremlin"

While intimidation and wide-scale violence are making the headlines of Egypt's hottest ever parliamentary elections, the state-owned media coverage and performance in general reflected a deep state of chaos, "highly indicative" of the political atmosphere in the largest Arab country. "The state-owned largest three press corporations have revealed their true face in covering the elections. The...

NEW YORK (Business 2.0) - It can't be said anymore that blogging isn't a business. The problem now may be that blogging has too many business models to choose from. Andrew Sullivan kicked things off by announcing he would soon decamp with his proto-blog to Time.com. That was followed in short order by the launch of Open Source Media, then the confusion over whether Gawker Media had finally sold...

Brij Lal, the host of the New York based "Bharat Vani" television and radio program and the Connecticut based "Let's Talk" Comcast cable television show died in Ridgefield CT on Nov 20, 2005. He is survived by his wife Dorothy Lal and daughter and granddaughter Leslie and Andrea Abi-Karam. Lal was born in Bharatpur India on April 11, 1924. He moved to New York City in 1951 and worked for 21 years...

"Gentleman" is not a term used very often to describe a reporter, but for any of us who knew Hugh Sidey, it is likely to be the first word that comes to mind. I had dinner with him just last Sunday here in Paris and was blown away, as always, by his energy, enthusiasm and experience. Hugh started covering presidents of the United States during the Eisenhower years for Life Magazine and then for...

The oblong table at The Times of India’s building in Mumbai had just enough seats to accommodate the INMA Board of Directors — mostly populated by members from North America, Europe, Latin America, and the South Pacific. The Board was in Mumbai for its semi-annual meeting, followed by INMA’s first-ever conference in Asia. It was, truly, a historic week on many fronts. The Board’s over-arching...

Three police officers suspected of killing a journalist and his wife in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) earlier this month were presented by the police at a press conference in capital Kinshasa. "We were able to catch the suspects because they took away the journalist's phone," Katsuva Wa Katsuvira, inspector-general of police, said at the National Police Headquarters on Monday, the

What did Len Downie know, and when did he know it? And more important, why didn't he do anything about it when he knew? On Oct. 24, if not earlier, the Washington Post editor learned that his star reporter Bob "Mr. Run Amok" Woodward had held back key information about the CIA leak scandal for two years. Yet Downie himself withheld that bombshell from his readers until Nov. 16 � a delay of more...

NEWSPAPERS editors were threatened with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act last night if they published details of a conversation between Tony Blair and George Bush in which the President is alleged to have suggested bombing al-Jazeera, the Arab news network. Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney-General, informed newspapers editors including that of The Times that "publication of a document that...