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First Western Journalist Killed in Syria Unrest

Gilles Jacquier of France dead after grenade attack

(Newser) - A French TV cameraman became the first Western journalist killed in the 10-month-old Syrian uprising today, dying in a barrage of grenades during a government-sponsored trip to the restive city of Homs, officials and a witness said. The violence came just hours after President Bashar Assad made a surprise appearance...

French Journo Found Dead in Yemen Hotel

Had been missing for days; circumstances murky

(Newser) - A French-Algerian journalist who'd been missing for four days has been found strangled in a hotel in Yemen's capital. The body of the man, whose name hasn't been given, was tied to the bed in his room, and Yemeni police said he had been strangled with an...

US Soldier Killed BBC Reporter

Inquiry overturns earlier report he was killed by insurgents

(Newser) - BBC journalist Ahmed Omed Khpulwak was accidentally killed by US troops in July after being mistaken for an insurgent, the International Security Assistance Force announced yesterday after a review of the incident, reports the BBC . Khpulwak was originally reported to have been killed by insurgents in a militant attack in...

Slain Libyan Journalist's Wife Has Baby, Posts Video

Mo Nabbous was killed by sniper while working

(Newser) - A Libyan citizen journalist and CNN contributor who started his own Livestream news channel was killed by a sniper while reporting—but his legacy lives on, thanks to a tribute from his wife and baby daughter. Perdita Nabbous, who was pregnant when Mohammed “Mo” Nabbous died, posted a video...

Missing Photographer Anton Hammerl Killed in Libya
 Photographer Killed in Libya 
May 20, 2011 8:34 AM CDT

Photographer Killed in Libya

Anton Hammerl had been missing since last month

(Newser) - Anton Hammerl, the South African photographer who went missing in Libya last month along with three other journalists, was likely killed on April 5, his family announced on Facebook . Hammerl, 41, was shot by Moammar Gadhafi's forces in an "extremely remote location" and could not survive his critical...

Chris Hondros: A Slain Photog's Final Images

Getty photographer had been assaulted twice while in Libya

(Newser) - Chris Hondros, the Getty photographer killed in fighting in Misrata yesterday, had a love of chess, opera, and martinis, and he "wanted to show the world what was going on," a fellow photographer tells the New York Times. "He was willing to take the personal risk and...

Four NYT Journalists Missing in Libya

Reporters were in Ajdabiya as it was overrun

(Newser) - Four New York Times staffers are missing in Libya, the newspaper says . They were in the Ajdabiya as it was overrun by government forces yesterday, and the paper has gotten unsubstantiated reports they were taken by government forces. “We have talked with officials of the Libyan government in Tripoli,...

Egyptian Journalist Dies
 Egyptian Journalist Dies 
Feb 5, 2011 5:31 AM CST

Egyptian Journalist Dies

Cairo denies systematic targeting of journalists amid unrest

(Newser) - An Egyptian reporter who was shot during clashes a week ago died of his wounds yesterday, his employer said, in the first reported death of a journalist in the chaos surrounding Egypt's protests. Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud, 36, was taking photographs of fighting between protesters and security forces from the balcony...

Report Airs New Details in Daniel Pearl's Murder

Mystery still surrounds his final days

(Newser) - Nearly nine years to the day since he was kidnapped, new details are coming out about the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The Pearl Project has worked for three years to answer the questions that surround his death, and an investigative journalism organization is publishing its report...

WikiLeaks Cable Triggers Lawsuit Over Journo's Death

WikiLeaks: Spain colluded with US to quash charges against troops

(Newser) - The family of a Spanish cameraman killed by American forces in Baghdad have launched what could be the first legal action to use WikiLeaks diplomatic cables as evidence. Jose Couso died along with a Reuters cameraman in 2003 when a US tank shell hit their hotel, a Pentagon-approved safe haven...

Russian Journo Beating Video Made Public

Attack could herald break between Medvedev and Putin

(Newser) - Video of the near-fatal beating of Oleg Kashin has surfaced online (click here to see it), drawing attention to the plight of journalists in Russia, the New York Times reports. President Dmitry Medvedev has taken a stand on the issue, involving the prosecutor general's office and tweeting, "The criminals...

After Slayings, Mexico Paper Appeals to Drug Cartels

'Tell us what to publish,' says Juarez newspaper

(Newser) - In a sad sign of how bad things have gotten in Mexico, the biggest newspaper in Ciudad Juarez is asking the drug cartels to basically dictate what the paper covers. After two of its journalists were murdered in less than two years, El Diario de Juarez ran a front-page editorial...

Protesters, Reporter Killed by Thai Troops

Casualties mount as military storms protest zone

(Newser) - At least 3 people were killed as the Thai army stormed barricades surrounding the protest encampment in central Bangkok today. An AP photographer saw 3 wounded journalists, one of whom, an Italian, appeared to be dead. Another reporter who followed troops into the protest zone saw the bodies of 2...

Record 70 Journalists Killed in 2009

Number jailed increases as well, with Iran and China leading pack

(Newser) - A record number of journalists were killed last year, and even more were arrested or imprisoned, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. In a report released today, the group names 70 journalists killed specifically for their reporting, a number exacerbated by the massacre of 29 journalists in...

Afghan Blast Kills UK Journo, US Marine

Mirror correspondent Rupert Hamer slain, photographer wounded

(Newser) - A roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan yesterday killed the Sunday Mirror's defense correspondent and an American Marine. Rupert Hamer, 39, was the first UK journalist killed while covering the war in Afghanistan. "He was a gregarious figure ,a wonderful friend who was hugely popular with his colleagues,"...

Journalist, 4 Canadian Troops Killed in Afghan Blast

Roadside bomb claims life of award-winning reporter Michelle Lang

(Newser) - An award-winning Calgary Herald journalist was among five Canadians killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan yesterday. Michelle Lang, 34, was embedded with troops on a security patrol when their vehicle was hit in the Kandahar area. She had arrived in the country 2 weeks earlier on an assignment to...

As Massacre Toll Hits 46, Philippines Declares Emergency

Eleven more bodies found in mass grave

(Newser) - A state of emergency has been declared in the southern Philippines after local police found 22 bodies buried in mass graves, bringing the toll in the slaughter of political supporters and journalists to 46. The convoy traveling to register a candidate for a provincial governor was stopped and attacked by...

Times Scribe Recounts Ordeal as 'Taliban Embed at Gunpoint'

Afghanis, negotiators angered by operation that killed Steven Farrell's interpreter

(Newser) - Four days in the hands of the Taliban often felt more like a tour of insurgent territory than a hostage ordeal, writes rescued New York Times journalist Stephen Farrell. The militants struck his interpreter, Sultan Munadi, with a rifle when the two were seized, but did not mistreat them afterward—...

Kidnapped Times Reporter Freed in Deadly Rescue

Afghan interpreter, British commando die in operation

(Newser) - A New York Times reporter held hostage by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan was freed today when British troops raided the militants' compound, but his Afghan interpreter and a British commando were killed during the rescue. Stephen Farrell was abducted Saturday while covering the aftermath of the NATO strike on...

Russian High Court Reopens Case of Murdered Journalist

Suspicion of Anna Politkovskaya's killers leads to Chechnya

(Newser) - Russia's supreme court ordered a new investigation into the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, the crusading journalist whose killers have not yet been found, reports the Guardian. The move received a cautious welcome from Politkovskaya's lawyer, who welcomed a new manhunt but said, "Whether the general prosecutor will use this...

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