From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Fiona O'Brien | Reuters/Yahoo! | 8 April 2004 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The brother of a Spanish journalist killed by U.S. troops in Baghdad on April 8 last year laid flowers in the Iraqi capital in his memory on Thursday and demanded those responsible be brought to account. Jose Couso, a cameraman with Spanish television Telecinco and Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk, a Ukrainian, were killed when a U.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) National Union of Journalists | 8 April 2004 Journalists’ organizations worldwide marked the anniversary of the shelling of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad by US forces with a fresh call for the United States to release vital information about what happened in a number of incidents in which journalists and media staff were killed. On April 8th 2003 more than 150 journalists based at the Palestine Hotel came under fire from US forces.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Reuters/Yahoo! | 22 March 2004 LONDON (Reuters) - An American soldier who killed Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana in Iraq was justified in opening fire, a U.S. army report said on Monday. The report, made public seven months after Dana died, found that the soldier's "decision to fire at Mr. Dana, though tragic and regrettable, was justified based on the information available to him at the time.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Al Jazeera.Net | 19 March 2004 A group of Arab journalists outraged after US soldiers shot dead two colleagues walked out of a press conference held by US Secretary of State Colin Powell in protest. A representative of the Iraqi media read out a statement on Friday at the start of the news conference, condemning Thursday's killing of the two journalists from the Dubai-based al-Arabiya television channel, as Powell and Iraq's US occupying adminstrator Paul Bremer looked on.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Heather Wokusch | YellowTimes | 16 February 2004 If the first casualty of war is truth, then the War on Terror has dealt a body blow to those trying to get at the bottom of the story: journalists. The press watchdog Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) has noted a sharp jump in attacks on journalists internationally, and not just in high-profile cases such as the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) NUJ | 19 February 2004 "...we also have a duty to defend the rights of our members, including the fundamental right to trade union representation within the framework of the established and agreed procedures." The National Union of Journalists has always strongly defended the BBC as a public service broadcaster, and will continue to do so. Our union played a key role in mobilising support for the BBC and independent journalism in the wake of the Hutton Report.