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Report: Libya Releases 3 Captured Journalists
By not in system - AOL NewsTRIPOLI, Libya -- Agence France Presse said the Libyan government released on Wednesday three journalists captured last week near a key eastern city that has been a daily battleground between Moammar Gadhafi's forces and Libyan rebels. The AFP reported the three were freed in Tripoli. The journalists are reporter Dave Clark, 38, and photographer Roberto Schmidt, 45, both of whom work for AFP; and Joe Raedle, 45, a photographer for Getty Images. ...
Ordeal of Freed Times Reporters Highlights Dangers Faced by Journalists
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsGunfire. Sexual assault. Beatings. These are just a few of the abuses New York Times reporters and photographers said they suffered when they were captured by the Libyan government and held for six days until their release Monday, a stark reminder of the huge risks often taken by journalists when they cover some of the world's most important and compelling stories. The journalists' account of the ordeal is harrowing. It began when their driver accidentally drove into a checkpoint manned by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi and the group was immediately ambushed and nearly killed by a barrage ...
Libya Says It Will Free Missing New York Times Journalists Today
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyFour New York Times journalists missing in Libya since Tuesday will be released Friday, the U.S. State Department said it has been told by Libyan officials. Also, Moammar Gadhafi's son, Seif Islam Gadhafi, confirmed to ABC News' Christiane Amanpour Thursday night that one of the four, photographer Lynsey Addario, would be freed. The New York Times identified the journalists as Anthony Shadid, the Times' Beirut bureau chief and a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent; two photographers, Tyler Hicks and Addario, who have extensive experience in war zones; and a reporter and ...
Missing New York Times Journalists Found in Libya
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Four New York Times journalists who were reported missing while covering the Libya conflict have been found, the newspaper said Friday. The Times reported on its website that the four were captured by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi and will be released Friday. The Times said his son, Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, gave the information to Christiane Amanpour in an ABC News interview. A Times spokeswoman said the newspaper had no immediate comment. The New York Times / AP Shown, from top left, are photographer Lynsey Addario, reporter Stephen Farrell, photographer Tyler Hicks ...
Vinita Nair Bids Farewell to World News Now; Twitter Waves Goodbye
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsMaybe Vinita Nair will be able to sleep in for a little bit. After co-anchoring ABC's overnight news show, "World News Now," since September 2008, Nair said farewell this morning with a look back on some of the amusing highlights of her tenure. "World News Now" is a quirky news show, known for being a bit light-hearted, and its fans are quite passionate. Jeremy Hubbard, Nair's former co-anchor, returned to take part in the send-off. Thursday night, he used Twitter to help make sure that fans knew it would be Nair's final show. Accordingly, some of them woke up at the alarmingly early ...
Jay Carney's Debut as White House Press Secretary: No News, No Hits, No Errors
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyNew White House Press Secretary Jay Carney held his first briefing on Wednesday, drawing a standing-room-only crowd who sized up the man replacing Robert Gibbs, President Obama's longtime confidant, adviser and sidekick. Carney, brought into the Obama fold two years ago from Time Magazine, was seasoned as Vice President Joe Biden's spokesman. He did fine on the first day, mainly because he made no mistakes (watch video below). He was measured, affable, serious, and committed little news. He seemed a bit nervous. Carney was adroit in turning aside a hypothetical question about debt, but got ...
Lara Logan Hospitalized Following 'Brutal' Sexual Assault in Egypt
By David Knowles - AOL NewsCBS News released a statement today regarding the condition of Lara Logan, its chief foreign affairs correspondent. According to CBS, Logan was separated from her crew, beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob in Cairo's Tahrir Square on the day that Hosni Mubarak stepped down as president of Egypt. In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the ...
Europeans Urge Egypt to Protect Journalists
By not in system - AOL NewsPARIS - Sweden's prime minister on Friday led a chorus of European officials calling on Egyptian authorities to protect reporters covering pro-democracy demonstrations there, while a Swedish TV reporter was in serious condition after being stabbed in the back. Speaking a day after the attack on reporter Bert Sundstrom of Swedish public broadcaster SVT, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt urged the Egyptian authorities to "respect the journalists." Reporters are "the eyes and the ears of the world at the moment," Reinfeldt said at a European Union summit in Brussels. ...
Egyptian Army Starts Rounding Up Journalists
By not in system - AOL NewsCAIRO -- The Egyptian military started rounding up journalists, possibly for their own protection, on Thursday after they came under attack from supporters of President Hosni Mubarak who have been assaulting anti-government protesters. The U.S. State Department condemned what it called a "concerted campaign to intimidate" foreign journalists in Egypt. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday that violence against journalists was part of a series of deliberate attacks and called on the Egyptian military to provide protection for reporters. Foreign photographers ...
Anderson Cooper Among Many Journalists Attacked in Cairo
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsJournalists in Cairo are being targeted and attacked, apparently by supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, several news organizations are reporting today. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper was punched in the head and kicked while trying to make his way into the "no-man's land" between the anti-Mubarak and pro-Mubarak crowds. "We realized the situation would get very bad very quickly," Cooper said in a broadcast afterward. "We turned around and started to walk calmly. The crowd kept growing, kept throwing more punches, kicks, trying to grab us. It was ...
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