internationalreporting: October 2006

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Reporting on Crisis/Katrina Aftermath

E & P: Editors at APME Tour Katrina Devastation: Can't Believe Eyes

“It is always better to have an eyewitness account,” Newseum Executive Director Joe Urschel said as the tour ended. “It is more unsettling because it is real. It is not just a clip on television.”

Monday, October 23, 2006

RSF´s Press Freedom Index 2006

RSF: North Korea, Turkmenistan, Eritrea the worst violators of press freedom -
France, the United States and Japan slip further Mauritania and Haiti gain much ground

Global Business News Business

International Herald Tribune: Dow Jones to buy rest of Factiva from joint venture partner Reuters for $160 million

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

CNN/Christiane Amanpour/Lecture

The Stanford Daily: CNN Correspondent recalls legacy of journalist and alum

"Speaking without notes to a standing-room-only audience, Amanpour offered insights, not only from her experience as a prolific foreign correspondent, but also as a critic of her own industry and a first-hand observer of world conflicts. Her subject matter ranged from diminishing international support for the War on Terror to her view that journalism has become too heavily beholden to profits and, consequently, too trivial."

“I’ve seen wholesale cuts in foreign bureaus,
wholesale retreat from foreign news coverage,
” she said. “It could not come at a worse time,
with the world so tense, with policy being so
heavily politicized that it is so difficult even to
figure out where is the truth.”

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