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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Risks of reporting


Photo caption: Kenji Nagai, this 50-year-old video journalist from Japan, died in Army gunfire while he was capturing the pro-democracy uprising in Burma on September 27, 2007. This photo, by Adrees Latif, later got the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Story.

These sites will explain what we talked in class.

For BMC I: How journalists work under a set of pressures and risks in hostile nations. And also know how free is the press in different countries.

For MMC I: Follow these sites regularly to know what's happening and also pick news and info from them to post in your group websites.

1. Reporters Without Borders

http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=20

Important: You must go through this report on the situation of local journalists in Swat Valley of Pakistan which was captured by the Taliban recently.

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=30742

2. Global Journalist

http://www.globaljournalist.org/

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