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Mavroleon is one of the journalists interviewed in Dying to Tell the Story, a documentary exploring what compels war-zone journalists—licensed idiots, as one reporter describes himself and colleagues—to risk their lives for the sake of a few pictures. Mavroleon was one of two journalists featured who were killed in action after the film’s completion, but its main protagonist is Dan Eldon, who was stoned to death by a violent Somali mob in 1992. He was 22. The portrait is wrenchingly intimate—the film’s host...
...repeated his answers, flipping her notebook pages as if trying to free them. One answer took nearly quadruple the time for her to repeat as it had for Bush to say. The Chinese translator was not very animated. Particularly when Jiang was asked a question from a home town journalist. The translator stood motionless as Jiang responded because, of course, the question and answer had been pre-written. One American journalist was able to ask an unscripted question, but as reporters sat forward waiting for the next round of questions, the Chinese president ended his answer by declaring: "That...
According to the press-freedom organization Reporters Without Borders, 32 journalists died in the line of work last year. Now, with hundreds of print and television reporters being deployed to cover the war against terrorism, employers are eager to prepare them properly. "To send a journalist who has not been trained in how to behave in these very dangerous parts of the world is complete folly," says Chris Cramer, president of cnn International, whose organization uses AKE, a U.K. company that offers courses similar to Centurion?s. Cramer should know. While working for the BBC in 1980, he was taken...
...Nigerian journalist Waziri O. Adio warned a room of students and writers last night at the Kennedy School of Government that there can be no true democracy in Africa unless it is accompanied by freedom of the press...
...first part Jon grows up in a single sneeze. This will be the last we see of anything magical for some time. Where the childhood scenes were of fun and games, the adult scenes are of toil and loneliness. Though as a child he speculated about becoming a journalist and traveling, Jon becomes a drill-press operator. He eats and sleeps alone. In passing we learn of an estranged wife and child. In the middle of these scenes, a dream reworks the moment of years ago, but this time with Jon as the victim. Finally...