Entries for July 2007

Campbell Brown, an IWMF board member and a former NBC News correspondent, will join CNN. Beginning in September and going on the air in November, Brown will work for CNN on a primetime show. Brown most recently co-anchored NBC's Weekend Today and was a correspondent at NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams, substituting for Williams when he was away.   Click here to read the Reuters article.

A journalist for more than three decades, Peta Thornycroft is one of the few remaining independent journalists in Zimbabwe. As a correspondent for The Daily Telegraph in London, Thornycroft, 62, covered the 2002 election when President Robert Mugabe stole victory with a campaign of violence in the midst of the country’s spiraling economic crisis. She also contributes to Voice of America and Independent Group in South Africa.

An Iraqi photographer and driver working for Reuters in Iraq were killed in Baghdad July 12. Photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, were killed, bringing the Iraq war death toll for Reuters employees to six.  Read the Reuters article.

A correspondent for CIMAC news agency and a feature writer for Dia Siete magazine, Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho has endured numerous death threats because of her work reporting on domestic violence, organized crime and pedophilia.

Ethiopian journalist and former publisher Serkalem Fasil, who was arrested in November 2005 and charged with treason and outrages against the constitu...

In the midst of the war in Iraq, the women of McClatchy’s Baghdad bureau risked their lives just to get to work. Driven by the desire to report to the world about the situation in their country, they became the backbone of bureau.