The strange thing about the so-called Global Village is that it has turned us all provincial. We relate to, are interested in, connect with, and remember news events with an insularity that would befuddle Marshall McLuhan. And in the process, we forget that stuff happens outside of the bubble we inhabit. The Listening Post, the…
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Mother of slain Iraqi reporter needs your help
Ali Shafeya Al-Moussawi, a reporter for Alive in Baghdad, has been killed at his home in Baghdad, in firing by the Iraqi National Guard. The morgue report says that Ali took 31 bullets between the chest and the head and died immediately. He was 23. He is the third member of his family to perish…
What it takes for a woman to be a journo in Iraq
New York: The International Women’s Media Foundation awarded its “courage in journalism awards” on Tuesday to women who risk their lives covering the news. One award was given to six Iraqi women who work in the McClatchy Newspapers bureau in Baghdad, a job so dangerous that they cannot take the chance of being photographed, not…
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