We at Military Reporters & Editors join many others today in mourning the deaths of Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington. [Read more...]
Iraq War the deadliest for journalists since World War II
The U.S.-led war in Iraq has been the deadliest combat assignment for reporters since World War II, the group Reporters Without Borders announced yesterday. [Read more...]
Reporters risked all during Thai’s bloody week
Sian Powell
THE AUSTRALIAN
Fabio Polenghi was killed by a burst of gunfire in Bangkok. Wounded in the lower abdomen, he was rushed to hospital on the back of a motor-scooter.
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Obama signs law honoring slain reporter Daniel Pearl
AFP
US President Barack Obama on Monday signed a bill into law which will single out foreign governments that shackle press freedoms, passed in honor of murdered US journalist Daniel Pearl.
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Slain journalist Lang wins press freedom award
CBC NEWS
Michelle Lang, the Calgary Herald reporter who was the first Canadian journalist to be killed while working in Afghanistan, has won the Canadian World Press Freedom Award.
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Fearless to the end: Remembering Margaret Moth
ATLANTA – CNN photojournalist Margaret Moth, who survived a near-fatal gunshot wound to the face while filming in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the wars there in the early 1990s, died Sunday. She was 59. [Read more...]
Soldiers comment on death of journalist Rupert Hamer
Britain’s Sunday Mirror reports that, to the soldiers he was with, Mirror reporter Rupert Hamer was “one of the lads” and “made a big impact.” [Read more...]
Journalists risk life and limb to cover Afghan conflict
On Jan. 11 the family, friends and colleagues of a journalist who was killed doing a job she loved — and one that came with risks she was well aware of — are gathering in Vancouver for her funeral. [Read more...]
Rupert Hamer, UK journalist killed in Afghanistan
Rupert Hamer, a British journalist with the Sunday Mirror was killed Sunday along with a U.S. Marine when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in volatile Southern Afghanistan, British officials and the reporter’s newspaper said.

Rupert Hamer
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Condolence messages pouring in for reporter killed in Afghanistan
By Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press
CALGARY – While she’s being remembered as an award-winning journalist with a warm smile and a bright future, the death of Michelle Lang while on her dream assignment to Afghanistan is a nightmare for her friends, family and colleagues. [Read more...]