Conflict Journalism

Genocide is the ultimate crime against humanity. And a government-backed genocide is unfolding in the Darfur region of the Sudan. As the horror in Darfur continues, America's major television news networks are largely missing in action. During June 2005, CNN, FOXNews, NBC/MSNBC, ABC, and CBS ran 50 times as many stories about Michael Jackson and 12 times as many stories about Tom Cruise as they...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing more than 500,000 journalists in over 110 countries, is alarmed by the arrest of more than 80 journalists at a protest in Kathmandu and the exodus of journalists from Dailekh district, fearing for their lives. "Press freedom and respect for the rights of journalists in Nepal are being shot to pieces by a...

Hours after their detention, more than 80 journalists, who protested against government's continued crackdown on media, have been released even as 17 scribes in a western Nepal district have decided to leave the area after allegedly receiving threats from local Army. The 81 journalists, released late last night, were detained earlier in the day at Ratnapark, a restricted area at the centre of...

KATHMANDU, Sept 16 - Police cracked down on journalists demonstrating peacefully in Kathmandu on Friday, arresting about 80 journalists. Most of them were picked up by police before the protest meet. They were released in the evening. Defying the government ban on demonstrations and rallies, journalists assembled at Ratnapark and chanted slogans demanding immediate restoration of press freedom and...

Nearly five years after five major television organisations agreed on a policy to keep journalists safer, journalists are being killed in ever-increasing numbers. Among the latest was Waleed Khaled, 35, a Reuters Television soundman who was killed Aug. 28 in Baghdad, and Steven Vincent, an American freelancer in Iraq who was shot to death in Basra Aug. 3. Around the world, more journalists and...

NEW YORK -- A journalists' group said Wednesday that the U.S. military hasn't fully investigated the killing of members of the media by American troops in Iraq. Some 13 journalists have been killed by U.S. troops since the war began in March 2003, according to a study released Wednesday by the Committee to Protect Journalists. At least 40 other journalists have lost their lives covering the...

Waleed Khaled was shot by US troops last week while working for Reuters TV. In response US army spokesman General Rick Lynch claimed that the US soldiers "took appropriate measures". Lynch said, "What our soldiers on the scene saw was a car travelling forward at a high rate of speed. It looked like cars that we have seen in the past used as suicide bombs… and there were two local nationals inside...

The International Federation of Journalists, the global organisation representing more than 500,000 journalists in over 110 countries, today welcomed the announcement of a unilateral three month cease-fire by the Maoist insurgency in Nepal. "This is a very positive sign that Nepal can reach a peaceful resolution to a situation that has seen journalists aggressively targeted and attacked by both...

NEW DELHI, September 5: The first casualty of war is the truth. And the reporters of the truth have been among the many casualties of the bloody conflict in Iraq. The truth dawns starkly on one when told that more journalists have been killed over the last two years in Iraq than were during the long-drawn Vietnam war. More than 80 members of the news media have died since the war began in March...

Here is a look at the toll since hostilities began in March 2003, as compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists. JOURNALISTS KILLED ON DUTY: 53 CPJ considers a journalist to be killed on duty if the person died as a result of a hostile action–such as reprisal for his or her work, or crossfire while carrying out a dangerous assignment. CPJ does not include journalists killed in accidents...