By Frank Smyth, November 14, 2010, Harvard International Review
More journalists were killed last year than ever before. No doubt the world has become a more dangerous…
By Frank Smyth, July 27, 2010, The Comittee to Protect Journalists
For a month, U.S. officials in Bogotá told Colombian journalist Hollman Morris that his request for a U.S. visa to study at Harvard as a prestigious Nieman Fellow had been denied on grounds relating to terrorist activities as defined by the U.S. Patriot Act, and that the decision was permanent and that there were no grounds for appeal.
By Frank Smyth, July 1, 2010, The Comittee to Protect Journalists
He’s young, unemployed and carries himself with the innocence of a man who hasn’t spent much time outside his own village. But Egyptian blogger Tamer Mabrouk is the real deal. Appearing at an international media conference in Bonn, Mabrouk’s description of chemical dumping into a brackish lagoon…
By Frank Smyth, May 7, 2010, The Comittee to Protect Journalists
A filmmaker’s raw footage is much like a photographer’s unedited images or a reporter’s notebooks—a private record of their reporting that is rarely disclosed to others. On Thursday, a federal judge in New York ruled…
By Frank Smyth, May 5, 2010, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
The bloodshed woven through the fabric of Guatemalan society remains a rarely told story. One reason for the ongoing lack of attention is the impunity that has long…
By Frank Smyth, May 27, 2009, Committee to Protect Journalists
Original story ran on the Committee to Protect Journalists blog Daniel Coronell’s name didn’t come up in a hearing this week on Capitol Hill, even though CPJ had just learned that a Colombian court had ordered the arrest of the respected Canal Uno TV reporter and Semana magazine columnist over his work. Coronell is one
By Frank Smyth, April 22, 2009, The Comittee to Protect Journalists
The killers of journalists in many less developed nations often work in collusion with corrupt government officials, CPJ research has long shown. For more than a year irregularities in the Oakland police investigation into…
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