September 24, 2025
Sixteen days after she was detained by the Libyan government, journalist Clare Morgana Gillis made her first direct contact with outsiders in two weeks today, telling her parents in a 15-minute phone call that she is in good health and being held in a women’s civilian jail in Tripoli.
The death of an incomparable photojournalist, killed on April 20 while covering the conflict in Libya, is recounted by his collaborator, confrère, and friend on Vanity Fair.
Tim Hetherington, who was a director and producer of the film “Restrepo,” and the photographer Chris Hondros came under fire in Misurata and died on Wednesday. They were both past OPC award winners.
The media is buzzing with allegations that Nobel Peace Prize nominee Greg Mortenson fabricated his books and misused donations. Amazingly, within days of 60 Minutes breaking the story, a new book was already released about it. Only don’t call it a “book.” Byliner, the company that published it, is touchy about this, because this format is really something new.
It’s a story familiar to many reporters: budget cuts and a thinly stretched staff force writers to resort to “churnalism,” the practice of rewriting press releases as original news.
IJNet interviewed Philip S. Balboni, GlobalPost’s CEO when the site first launched. In the last two years, the media environment has undergone a number of changes, but GlobalPost has continued to grow. IJNet got back in touch with Balboni to talk about the lessons learned since the site’s launch and where GlobalPost is headed next.
Park Shin-il covered the Vietnam War for the Seoul newspaper Kyunghyang Shinmun and later was the spokesman for South Korea’s embassy in Tokyo.
Al Jazeera’s aggressive expansion into cyberspace hopes to empower a new generation of newsmakers, impact the American news market, and capture the attention of young cable cutters.
The New York Times won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for commentary and foreign reporting in 2010, while The Los Angeles Times received the coveted public service Pulitzer.
Karim Fakhrawi, one of the founders of Bahrain’s only independent newspaper, Al-Wasat, and a member of its board, died in custody on 12 April, one week after his arrest. The exact cause of death has yet to be established.
