Iraq

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the murder of Koussai Kahdban, an Iraqi journalist with local radio station Al-Bilad, who was shot by gunmen on 22 April 2006 in Baghdad. His death brought the number of journalists and media assistants killed in Iraq since the start of the war in March 2003 to 88, of whom 12 have been killed since the beginning of 2006. "This horrible deed once...

(April 25, 2006) -- Journalists are reviled by many for alleged negativism and over-focus on bad news in Iraq. Or perhaps the problem is: Their employers are just trying to do it on the cheap. Ironically, the same media that criticizes the U.S. for sending too few troops to stabilize Iraq send too few reporters to cover much more than the dramatic bombings around Baghdad. "I hope we keep out of...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (UPI) -- Under Saddam Hussein, political cartoons were little more than state propaganda, but press freedom has unleashed a wave of pointed political cartooning. With few restrictions on speech now, dozens of newspapers have blossomed in Iraq, and all the major ones seem to run one or two cartoons a day, The New York Times reported. A deep cynicism -- about politicians in general...

In the violence that has swept the country more than three years after the US-led invasion, journalists in Iraq have become targets of violence. This climate of fear has forced Iraqi journalists to lead double lives. Most of the journalists here do not tell their relatives or friends what they do. Some even write in daily newspapers without by-lines. Others use pseudonyms to avoid angry readers...

BAGHDAD, April 14 -- An unarmed Iraqi journalist was among those killed during a controversial military raid late last month in northern Baghdad, according to interviews with his editors, a reporter who was with him when he died and other witnesses. Kamal Manahi Anbar, 28, was enrolled in a training program of the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting, which runs courses for local...

New York, April 10, 2006–Reuters news agency said today that an inquiry it commissioned into the shooting of one of its journalists by U.S. troops in Iraq found that the killing was "unlawful" and a violation of U.S. military rules of engagement. The Committee to Protect Journalists expressed concern at the findings. Reuters said the inquiry by Risk Advisory Group (TRAG), a European risk...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. media coverage of Iraq is too polarized between "good news" and "bad news" and all sides are missing out on a complete picture, participants in a panel discussion organized by Reuters said on Wednesday. That was one of the few points of agreement between journalists, a professional blogger and a U.S. military spokesman gathered in New York to discuss media in Iraq. "If...

NEW YORK: Now that reporter Jill Carroll has been released from captivity after nearly three months, flown home to the United States, reunited with her family, and even visited her paper's newsroom, what's next? As far as The Christian Science Monitor is concerned, that's up to her. And the paper is in no hurry for her to decide. "We don't have a plan and it is not a question we have posed to her...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese journalist Yang Xiaoqing had told his wife he knew how to handle the risks of his job, but that was before he was arrested after reporting claims of corruption, joining the country's list of detained reporters. Yang was arrested in January after five months' hiding from police, charged with extortion after reporting claims of dishonest state property sales in his home...

Blogger Michael Yon spent 10 months embedded with the military in Iraq looking for success stories, becoming the poster boy for those who say the mainstream media are not reporting good news from the war-torn country. But ask the Winter Haven native about criticism from President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and others that mainstream news reporters are missing the real story of achievement in...