Conflict Journalism

KATMANDU, Nepal: A search continued for a journalist abducted last week in western Nepal and one suspect has been arrested, a police official said Tuesday. Freelance journalist Prakash Thakuri was kidnapped July 5 from his home in Kanchanpur town, about 550 kilometers (330 miles) west of the capital Katmandu, said police official Chabilal Joshi. Officials received an e-mail Monday night claiming...

An ebullient and relieved Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent set free Wednesday after 114 days as a captive in the Gaza Strip, suggested the turning point that led to his release was Hamas' takeover of the strip. The armed Islamic movement is considered a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Israel, whose right to exist it does not recognize. But Johnston said...

BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston was freed on Wednesday after 114 days held hostage by Palestinian extremists. Here is a timeline of his captivity. BBC's Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston (left) has breakfast with deposed Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya following his release. Johnston was freed after being hostage for 16 weeks by Palestinian extremists in Gaza, looked pale and drawn...

Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in Gaza, was freed and handed over to Hamas officials early on Wednesday after a late-night deal with the al Qaeda-inspired group that abducted him in March. The 45-year-old Briton was embraced by BBC colleagues after he arrived by car at the home of Hamas's local leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh. Johnston was smiling and looked well despite four months...

Hamas gunmen have reportedly surrounded the stronghold of the group holding BBC journalist Alan Johnston. According to a report by the Associated Press, members of the movement's militia have moved on to rooftops and taken up positions in the streets in the Gaza neighbourhood that is home to his captors, the Army of Islam. Johnston has been held hostage by the Army of Islam, which is led by Gaza's...

From evening arrests on the M6 to the vehicle in flames outside Glasgow airport, the events of the past three days have highlighted the role members of the public play in reporting news as it unfolds. Rolling news channels and newspapers published scores of videos and images taken on mobile phones and digital cameras by so-called citizen journalists. Many of the images have already been collected...

The worldwide journalist death toll has risen sharply this year with 100 lives lost within six months, threatening even the record level reached in 2006. According to the International News Safety Institute (INSI), 83 journalists and 17 other media professionals have died covering news stories between January 1 and June 26, compared with 68 at the same time last year. INSI recorded a total of 168...

Three more Iraqi journalists have been killed in the past two weeks, delayed reports have said. They bring the number of media workers killed in Iraq since the start of the year to 36, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). One of the many victims of a bombing in Al-Khalis (55 km north of Baghdad) on June 11 was Aref Ali Falih, 32, who had been the correspondent of the independent news...

Farida Nekzad began receiving menacing calls on her mobile phone a half hour after arriving at the funeral of a fellow female journalist assassinated by gunmen. “Daughter of America! We will kill you, just like we killed her,”’ she quoted the man on the phone as saying even as Nekzad was mourning Zakia Zaki, the owner of a radio station north of Kabul. Zaki’s maimed body lay nearby, part of her...

Yemeni authorities are questioning a journalist over alleged links to Shiite Muslim rebels accused of planning attacks against strategic sites, the ruling party said Thursday. Abdelkarim Al-Kiwani, editor of the Al-Shura weekly of the Union of Popular Forces Shiite party, "is currently being questioned ... about a link to the terrorist cell" led by Abdulmalik al-Huthi, it said on its website...