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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Qaddafi

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. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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