http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=2&catid=18News Feed for - Journalismhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96562038&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T14:19:00NAIROBI (Reuters) - Two freelance journalists held hostage in Somalia for 15 months arrived safely in neighboring Kenya on Thursday. Amanda Lindhout, a Canadian reporter, and Nigel Brennan, an Australian Reuters Canadahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96560484&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T14:48:00* Reporter said he was punished for criticising presidentReuters Africahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96560183&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T14:24:00MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Two foreign journalists freed after 15 months in captivity in Somalia arrived in neighboring Kenya Thursday. Canadian Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan flew out of the Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96515090&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T05:02:00dangerous country for journalists - CNN.com cnnIsIntl -1) ? true : false;var clickID (cnnIsIntl) ? 212106 : 211911;var cnnShareTitle encodeURIComponent('Group: most dangerous country for cnnShareDesc CNNhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96530072&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T03:30:00Families, friends, students and sympathizers light candles on Wednesday in Koronadal, Philippines, for the massacre victims. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Massacre is single worst mass killing of journalists in history, CNNhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96501070&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T11:04:00One of Northern Irelands best-known journalists has been given a savage beating just yards from the front door of Belfast City Hall. Jim McDowell, northern editor of Dublin-based Sunday World, suffered The Independenthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96552050&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T08:09:00Somali police claim a $700,000 ransom was paid to free Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan Two foreign journalists freed after more than a year in captivity in Somalia flew out to neighbouring Kenya today. Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96530432&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T03:34:00Another day; another political expenses scandal. Six months on from the worst Parliamentary controversy in memory, the political classes are still reeling from the fallout. Some may even be facing criminal BBChttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96562705&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T14:09:00Two journalists from Canada and Australia flew out of Somalia on Thursday at the end of a 15-month hostage ordeal during which they were tortured and shackled in windowless rooms by their captors. Amanda Mail & Guardian Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96487234&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T14:22:00EDMONTON - Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout, freed after 15 months of captivity in war-torn Somalia, said Wednesday she was isolated, beaten and tortured, and dreamed of walking through Vancouver's Newstalk 1290 CJBKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96561106&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T13:43:00LONDON: Tony Blair on Thursday pressed Iraqi leaders to uphold media freedoms which Britain 'fought for,' after a British newspaper's correspondent was fined for reporting criticism of Iraq's prime minister. Jang Grouphttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96571395&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T15:14:00(Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A seminar for press officials and journalists from developing countries around the globe started here Thursday. The two-week seminar, sponsored by China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) Investors Business Dailyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96569125&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T15:04:00Research has shown that almost 50,000 editors left online encyclopedia Wikipedia in the first quarter of this year: 10 times the number who deserted the site in the same period of 2008. The staggering NetworkWorldhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96566757&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T14:26:00Sudanese journalist Lubna Ahmad Al-Hussein was recently prosecuted for wearing trousers that were judged â??indecentâ?� in Sudan. Today she speaks about her new book "Quarante coups de fouet pour un pantalon" France24http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96561905&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T13:42:00Five Age reporters and photographers last night won Walkley awards, Australia's leading prize for journalism. China correspondent John Garnaut and business reporter Mathew Murphy won the inaugural best The Agehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96555437&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T08:43:00South African design and décor doyenne, Laureen Rossouw has been appointed as new editor of décor magazine, ELLE Decoration, it was announced yesterday, Wednesday, 25 November 2009. Rossouw has more than Biz Communityhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96555431&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T08:43:00Brendan Cooper has been appointed editor of Sports Illustrated South Africa, the magazine announced today, Thursday, 16 July 2009. Cooper has more than 15 years in the publishing industry in various roles Biz Communityhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96552834&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T08:19:00(MENAFN - Jordan Times) Anticipating a democratic overhaul of national institutions, opinion leaders on Wednesday said the dissolution of the Lower House of Parliament would 'usher in a new era of reforms'.A MENAFNhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96532252&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T08:09:00In the first three months of 2009, Internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia 'lost' 49,000 of its volunteer editors, according to University research.Economictimeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96495155&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T08:12:00NAIROBI, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- A global press freedom watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has welcomed the release of two foreign journalists who were kidnapped in Somalia last year. In Xinhua News Agencyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96540476&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T05:34:00op-ed in the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Hamad Al-Majed, founder of the Saudi National Human Rights Association and a lecturer in education, mourns the U.S.'s military, political, and Middle East Media Research Institutehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96448412&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T05:15:00vaccine the scenes - The myth of A/H1N1 vaccine (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2009-11-26 10:19 Related story: About the China Daily Reporter: Yang Wanli has covered healthcare and community affairs. She CHINAdailyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96530042&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T03:29:00SHAH ALAM: A journalist with a local Malay daily was chased out of a press conference called by officers of Selangorâ??s Pakatan Rakyat elected representatives at the state secretariat building. Selangor TheStar.com.myhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96529629&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T03:24:00Here's a dirty little secret about the New York Times: It likes to leak things. Important things. Things that change the course of the public conversation. From the Pentagon Papers to the ruined terrorist-surveillance Investors Business Dailyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96528588&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=182009-11-26T03:12:00ArmeniaNows photographer was honored this week in St. Petersburg, Russia. Published: 24 November, 2009 Article tools ArmeniaNow photojournalist Nazik Armenakyans photo project Survivors won a Karl Bulla Armenia Now