Press freedom in war-torn Afghanistan is regressing to a Taliban-era level of restrictions, according to a recent report. Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a Paris-based press advocacy organization, visited Afghanistan in January to survey the current situation. Their report is entitled, “We have free speech, but we’re not safe and don’t act responsibly.” “Because of the […]
The Overseas Press Club of New York will host a distinguished panel of foreign correspondents and news entrepreneurs on Monday, March 30. The panel will be composed of Washington Post New York bureau chief Keith Richburg for Dispatches magazine, Marc Rosenwasser, executive producer of World Focus, and Charlie Sennott, executive editor and vice president of […]
Carlotta Gall is the Kabul-based veteran war correspondent with The New York Times who reports on both Afghanistan and western Pakistan. Read one of her recent report from the front lines, Pakistan and Afghan Taliban Close Ranks. I caught up with her last week while working on a piece for an upcoming article for Quill, […]
This documentary is scary. It deals with the issue of water, who owns it and who controls it in different parts of the world. Should water be considered public for everyone to enjoy, like air? Or should it be held in private hands, like oil? It is obvious where Irena Salina, the film’s director, stands: […]
Frontrunner Monday, March 30 at 6:45p.m. at the Paley Center for Media in New York City, 25 West 52 Street The Bread Winner The Asia Society in cooperation with the Foreign Policy Association, at 725 Park Avenue (at 70th St) in New York City, on Monday, April 6 at 6:00p.m. *** Two documentaries depicting the […]
A recent New York Times article explores a quizzical addition to the U.S. media scene: Chinese state-run media. Several, in fact the largest, state-controlled media plan to spend a small fortune in order to expand overseas. In the midst of what looks like a major crisis for journalists and readers, media companies and outlets left […]
Bob Schieffer, a journalist with more than five decades of experience, said it best during a recent event at the New York Press Club: “A free press is vital to a healthy democracy.” What an encouraging thought at a time of dramatic changes in the news business. And what a fitting prinicple in light of […]
The world should never forget. This documentary tells the tales of several Hungarian Jews who survived the camps in World War II. Their stories are heartbreaking and still fresh in their minds more than 50 years later. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/H6HG0iNHREo” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] One woman tells of how she wore her favorite swimsuit under her […]
“The United States doesn’t have friends; it has interests.” That from a US official speaking to a Rwandan human rights activist. That was the line most governments used while sitting idly by during one of the worst genocides of the 20th century. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/agYCx2sPg98″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] “Ghosts of Rwanda” is a Frontline documentary […]
“I think the American invasion of Iraq was the biggest mistake in American foreign policy history,” said veteran journalist Ricks, who added that the future of the region looks bleak, especially when it comes to who will ultimately come to power. “I think what we [will] end up with is a smarter, tougher version of Saddam Hussein.”
Congratulatory emails have been pouring in to the Italian Embassy in Washington after Ambassador Giovanni Castellaneta wrote to the Washington Post to protest against a front page report from Rome March 1 headlined ‘As Italy’s Banks Tighten Lending, Desperate Firms Call on the Mafia.’ The emails are from Italian Americans sick and tired of what […]
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