Author: OPC of America

The belief that Tim Hetherington didn’t have to die in Libya has led Sebastian Junger to launch an organization providing freelance journalists with emergency medical training.

Mark Thompson, who has overseen the British Broadcasting Corporation’s television channels, radio stations and websites since 2004, will depart the public broadcaster later this year, he said Monday.

The anchor has assisted in pushing the network’s ‘Evening News’ toward hard news, especially on foreign affairs and domestic economic distress. That offers promise it can escape the ratings cellar.

Syrian citizen journalists and activists were awarded the 2012 Reporters Without Borders Netizen Prize sponsored by Google.

“He reiterated his call for justice for his friend, Hrant Dink, and said that tomorrow he planned to take his daughter to school,” IPI’s Steven Ellis said.

The international jury of the 2nd World Press Photo Multimedia Contest has given the First Prize to the production "Afrikaner Blood" by Elles van Gelderen and Ilvy Njiokiktjien from the Netherlands. The multimedia production follows young white Afrikaner teenagers in South Africa who attend a holiday camp set up to teach them self-defense and how to combat a perceived black enemy.

American journalist Marie Colvin was killed on assignment in Syria last month. Read her longtime friend, Katrina Heron‘s tribute.

World Press Photo of the Year winner Samuel Aranda returned to Yemen to cover Tuesday’s presidential election and also wanted to meet with the subjects of the photograph, to put a face on the image that gained so much attention after the award was announced on February 10.

The extremes of uprising, from the initial euphoria to muddy truths blurred by violence, are now the focus of a group project aimed at bringing work by a few Western photographers back to the country where the images were taken. Titled Almost Dawn in Libya (ADIL) and conceived by the photographer André Liohn, the project features work by Bryan Denton, Lynsey Addario, Eric Bouvet, Christopher Morris, Jehad Nga and Finbarr O’Reilly.