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1. June 29, 2012 06:50 AM

   A fatal year

   2012 on track to be the deadliest on record for journalists

   By Curtis Brainard

   PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago — With 72 journalists killed so far this year, 2012 is on pace to be the deadliest on record, the International Press Institute (IPI) announced here on Sunday. The media freedom organization’s executive director, Alison Bethel McKenzie, choked up and struggled to speak as she addressed the group’s annual conference. “From Somalia to Syria,...

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2. February 17, 2012 12:26 AM

   Anthony Shadid: What He Knew

   By Ryan Chittum

   The foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid of The New York Times, has died of an apparent asthma attack while covering the Syrian uprising. He was just 43. In our November/December issue, Terry McDermott interviewed him about his experiences covering the war in Iraq. Here is Shadid, whom McDermott noted was "the most honored foreign correspondent of his generation," in his own...

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3. July 30, 2012 12:52 PM

   Noticed: #countriesbyvoguewriters

   Twitter users lampoon a line by former Vogue writer Joan Juliet Buck

   By Kira Goldenberg

   This morning, Newsweek posted a story by Joan Juliet Buck which tells the backstory to her Vogue profile of Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad. Titled “A Rose in the Desert,” the profile ran in the March 2011 issue, hitting newsstands right as the Syrian government began killing its own citizens, a borderline civil war that continues there. Vogue eventually pulled...

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4. August 16, 2012 03:37 PM

   Straight news from the citizens of Syria

   How reporters sort, organize—and verify—a flood of information from a chaotic civil war

   By James Miller and Matt Sienkiewicz

   On June 5th, the never-ending Twitter discussion on #Syria moved in a shocking new direction. According to numerous accounts, violence had finally engulfed Aleppo, suggesting for the first time that Syria’s largest city would face the violence already so prevalent elsewhere in the nation. Details remained vague, but the rising tide of tweets grew increasingly disturbing. The assault from Bashar...

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5. February 24, 2012 02:19 PM

   Syria: Too Much Information?

   How journalists wade through a social-media flood

   By Dalal Mawad

   For foreign journalists, the Arab Spring uprisings and their aftermaths have ranged from exhilaratingly accessible (Egypt), to mortally dangerous (Libya), to frustratingly off-limits (Syria). Since Syria’s violent uprising began 11 months ago, the government has strictly limited journalist visas. The relatively few foreign journalists who have managed to enter Syria on a formal visa are required to report at all...

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6. November 29, 2012 12:30 PM

   The media news cycle is bananas

   What's up with the last couple of days?

   By The Editors

   We seem to be in the thick of a media news maelstrom right now: —Jeff Zucker was officially named the new head of CNN. —The Leveson Report on media ethics in the UK was published, and reporters have been frantically digesting its 2,000 pages. —Syria has cut Internet access as violence continues to engulf the country. —The New York Times...

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