Deathtrap Iraq

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...

An American freelance journalist who was released after being held hostage in Iraq for nearly three months says she was forced at gunpoint to criticize the United States while in captivity. "During my last night in captivity, my captors forced me to participate in a propaganda video," Jill Carroll said in a statement written at the U.S. airbase in Ramstein, Germany. "Things that I was forced to...

Jill Carroll , the freed American journalist, will return to the United States from Baghdad in a few days, her newspaper said, as details emerged of her 82-day captivity in Iraq. The Christian Science Monitor, where the 28-year-old worked as a freelancer when she was kidnapped on January 7, said Carroll was warned that she may be killed if she talked with US officials after her release. After her...

NEW YORK: With the news of reporter Jill Carroll’s release "it seems there’s a new round of discussion about media practices in Baghdad, where I have been based since the start of the war in 2003," writes Cox correspondent Larry Kaplow in a letter posted Friday at the Romenesko site at www.poynter.org. "Many newspaper reporters, including myself, reject the 'hotel journalism' characterization...