http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=23&catid=18News Feed for - Journalismhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96560738&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=182009-11-26T15:07:00Freed Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout left Somalia Thursday morning, ending a 15-month hostage ordeal in which she was tortured, beaten and often given barely enough food to survive. At home, Prime National Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96562038&Channel_ID=23&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=96487234&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=182009-11-26T15:12:00Freed Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout left Somalia Thursday morning, ending a 15-month hostage ordeal in which she was tortured, beaten and often given barely enough food to survive. At home, Prime Canada.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96560183&Channel_ID=23&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=96560484&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=182009-11-26T14:48:00* Reporter said he was punished for criticising presidentReuters Africahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96515090&Channel_ID=23&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=23&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=96514255&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=182009-11-26T14:49:00SYDNEY -- Emotional relatives of Somalia kidnap victim Nigel Brennan expressed joy on Thursday at his release from more than a year of brutal captivity, when he was pistol-whipped and spent months in National Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96574867&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=182009-11-26T15:49:00Telegraph Media Group editor-in-chief Will Lewis is becoming the companyâ??s managing director for digital, and will head a new â??entrepreneurialâ?� division with 50 staff to lead the companyâ??s search PaidContent UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96573836&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=182009-11-26T15:39:00* Freelancers held hostage for 15 months * Kidnapper says $1 million ransom was paid NAIROBI, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Two freelance journalists held hostage in Somalia for 15 months arrived safely in neighbouring Reuters UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96501070&Channel_ID=23&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=96530432&Channel_ID=23&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=96565370&Channel_ID=23&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=96562705&Channel_ID=23&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=96561106&Channel_ID=23&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=96574291&Channel_ID=23&Category_ID=182009-11-26T15:43:00EDMONTON - Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout, freed after 15 months of captivity in war-torn Somalia, says she was kept isolated, beaten and tortured, so she dreamed of walking through Vancouver's Stanley CNEWShttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96571395&Channel_ID=23&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=96566757&Channel_ID=23&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=23&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=96495155&Channel_ID=23&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=96555437&Channel_ID=23&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=23&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=23&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=23&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=96540476&Channel_ID=23&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 Institute