Category: Journalism

CNN has announced the Margaret Moth Masters Fellowship to honor one of their first camera women who died of cancer a year ago. A nice tribute, and a program all graduate students should look at getting involved with. (Thanks to CNN’s Victor Hernandez for the lede.)

Along with the news of the release of four New York Times journalists comes news that two journalists for Agence France-Presse and one for Getty have been detained in Libya. The two from AFP were picked up on late last week and there has been no word from or about them since Saturday.

The four New York Times journalists who were held in Libya have told part of their story now. It’s a harrowing account of the six days they were held, threatened and assaulted. “I heard in Arabic, ‘Shoot them,’ ” Mr. Shadid said. “And we all thought it was over.” Then another soldier spoke up. “One of the others said: ‘No,...

The New York Times is reporting the four journalists they reported missing in Libya last Tuesday have been released. The Libyan government released four detained New York Times journalists Monday, six days after they were captured while covering the conflict between government and rebel forces in the eastern city of Ajdabiya. They were released into the custody of Turkish diplomats.