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1. April 1, 2011 09:04 AM

   “The Risks are Worth Taking as Long as Nothing Happens”

   Four NYT journalists captured in Libya speak at Columbia

   By Lauren Kirchner

   On Thursday evening, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the SPJ hosted photojournalists Lynsey Addario and Tyler Hicks, reporter and videographer Stephen Farrell, and Beirut bureau chief Anthony Shadid, all of The New York Times, to talk to students about their ordeal in Libya. The four had been captured by Col. Qaddafi’s forces at a checkpoint after covering the...

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2. August 30, 2011 01:16 PM

   WSJ Shoe Leather and Privacy Series Pays Off In Libya

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Wall Street Journal gets a big scoop today on the ground in Libya, reporting that Western companies helped Qaddafi create a massive email and phone surveillance system to spy on Libyans. Amesys, a unit of France's Bull SA, sold the dictator its Eagle system, which allows governments to pull any and all email passing through the country's networks South...

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3. October 21, 2011 04:52 PM

   A Grand Year for Free Speech

   Gaddafi’s death just one indicator of the global surge in free expression

   By Justin D. Martin

   Not since the disintegration of the Soviet Union have so many opponents of free expression quickly fallen from executive power. Countries like Tunisia and Libya weren’t just unwelcoming to journalists; these countries were routinely listed as among the worst places on earth for those looking to report the truth. Merely alluding to Gaddafi’s brutality could leave a journalist with a...

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4. March 8, 2011 03:18 PM

   A Letter From a Pressman in Tripoli

   By Joel Meares

   From Tripoli, The Guardian’s Peter Beaumont has a thoughtful report on what conditions are like on the ground for foreign journalists covering clashes in Libya—a report that unsurprisingly differs from the picture of a free-roaming press being pushed by the administration there. Beaumont argues in that it’s virtually impossible for journalists to move freely around the country—a claim backed up...

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5. February 22, 2011 03:24 PM

   Assessing Al Jazeera

   What's your general impression of Al Jazeera English?

   By The Editors

   As revolutions ripple through the Middle East, Al Jazeera has kept its cameras rolling. Few American cable networks offer Al Jazeera English, but it has nevertheless received more and more praise here, as so many of us have depended on its online livestream to follow the events unfolding overseas. Journalism.co.uk reports that the AJE website “claims to have seen a...

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6. March 30, 2011 12:57 PM

   Covering “Crazy”

   “Goldwater rule” overlooked in articles about Qaddafi, Sheen, and Loughner

   By Curtis Brainard

   The media has a penchant for psychoanalysis that often gets news outlets into trouble. From killers to celebrities to dictators, this year has already born witness to more armchair psychiatry than critics can stomach. As soon as police released a mug shot of Jared Lee Loughner exhibiting an enigmatic smirk after his arrest for a January for a shooting rampage...

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7. March 23, 2011 10:23 AM

   Four Times Journalists Recall Captivity in Libya

   By Joel Meares

   There is much to shock and rattle you in today’s first-hand account from the New York Times journalists captured—and now released—by government forces in Libya this month. Anthony Shadid (reporter), Lynsey Addario (photographer), Stephen Farrell (journalist and videographer) and Tyler Hicks (photographer) team up for an A1 piece in which they recount their capture, captivity, brutal beatings and threats, and...

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8. March 25, 2011 01:17 PM

   Libya and the Arab Street

   What do ordinary Arabs think? Let’s ask them

   By Michael Massing

   On Wednesday, I went to hear Ayman Mohyeldin, the Cairo correspondent for Al Jazeera English, speak at the office of the Committee to Protect Journalists. His subject was the risks and realities of covering the Mideast, and at one point he was asked to reflect on the current situation in Libya. In his answer, he said something that stunned me:...

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9. April 20, 2011 03:59 PM

   Misinformation On Killed and Injured Photographers

   Sad news brings a lesson on caution

   By Joel Meares

   There has been much confusion in the wake of reports that documentary filmmaker Tim Hetherington was killed today in Misrata, Libya, and three other photographers were injured, two gravely. Initial reports were that Hetherington and photographer Chris Hondros were both killed—but the Times and others are now reporting that Hondros and photographer Guy Martin are in grave condition rather...

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10. March 29, 2011 01:08 PM

    Obama Leaves the Pundits Wanting More

    Libya speech did little to clear up the unclear

    By Joel Meares

    If the president had hoped last night’s speech would quash claims that the purpose and objective of our intervention in Libya was unclear, he probably shouldn’t unfold a paper or open his laptop this morning. The pundits—left, right, and in between—are pretty damningly unanimous: what little was clear before President Obama took the lectern remains clear; what was unclear...

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11. October 20, 2011 02:14 PM

    The Story of the Gaddafi Story

    How news of the Libyan leader's demise spread on Twitter

    By Craig Silverman

    Earlier this morning news began to spread that something major was happening in Libya. At first it seemed that a convoy, likely belonging to those loyal to former leader Moammar Gaddfi, was under attack in/near Sirte. This was where his loyalists were holed up. Was Gaddafi there too? No one knew. But soon reports emerged that he may have been...

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12. May 20, 2011 09:47 AM

    Three Journalists Released From Captivity In Libya

    By Joel Meares

    In the opening shot of our May/June magazine we made mention of four journalists that had been captured in Libya in early April: American reporters Clare Gillis and James Foley, Spanish photographer Manu Brabo, and South African photographer Anton Hammerl. Yesterday came the saddening news that Hammerl is believed to have been killed in Libya when the others were captured,...

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13. April 21, 2011 10:36 AM

    Tributes from Colleagues to Killed War Photographers

    By Joel Meares

    With the news that documentarian and photographer Tim Hetherington died yesterday in Libya, and, later, the confirmation that photographer Chris Hondros had also been killed, media organizations who worked with either of the pair, or both, or who worked with neither but admired their work and courage, are paying tribute. A rounded picture of the men and their work...

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14. March 21, 2011 12:36 PM

    War Is A Worry, Not Just the Liberal Ones

    A look at Ross Douthat's take on Libya

    By Joel Meares

    Two heavy hitters from the left and right are struggling with the weekend’s (aerial) incursion into Libya. Both the Times’s conservative columnist Ross Douthat and progressive Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall are opining on why the whole thing has them feeling queasy. Douthat and Marshall touch on some of the same points of concern: a third incursion into the Muslim...

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15. December 30, 2011 02:41 PM

    What a Year!

    A foreign editor looks back in wonder at 2011

    By Thomas Nagorski

    On a weekend last January I sent Alex Marquardt, our newly minted Mideast correspondent, to cover a protest in Egypt. Tunisia’s long-time dictator, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, had fallen in stunningly fast fashion a week before, and together Alex and I had wondered whether something similar was stirring in the Egyptian capital. I really didn’t think so—certainly we didn’t...

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