Mar. 7, 2013
2:03 pm
NBC’s Richard Engel describes being kidnapped in Syria:
A group of about 15 armed men were fanning out around us. Three or four of them stood in the middle of the road blocking our vehicles. The others went for the doors. They wore black jackets, black boots, and black ski masks. They were professionals and used hand signals to communicate. A balled fist meant stop. A pointed finger meant advance. Each man carried an AK-47. Several of the gunmen began hitting the windows of our car and minivan with the stocks of their weapons. When they got the doors open, they leveled their guns at our chests.
Time was slowing down as if I’d been hit in the head. Time was slowing down as if I were drowning.
This can’t be happening. I know what this is. This can’t be happening. These are the shabiha. They’re fucking kidnapping us. …
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NBC correspondent Richard Engel, writing for Vanity Fair
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Jeff Sonderman
Nov. 28, 2012
3:54 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
Aug. 24, 2012
8:23 am
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In late July freelance reporter Austin Tice posted a message to his Facebook page explaining "
why I'm doing this crazy thing." He was in Syria, covering the war there for McClatchy, The Washington Post and other outlets and said being there was "the greatest thing I've ever done."
We kill ourselves every day with McDonald's and alcohol and a thousand other drugs, but we've lost the sense that there actually are things out there worth dying for. ... So that's why I came here to Syria, and it's why I like being here now, right now, right in the middle of a brutal and still uncertain civil war. Every person in this country fighting for their freedom wakes up every day and goes to sleep every night with the knowledge that death could visit them at any moment. They accept that reality as the price of freedom.
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Andrew Beaujon
Aug. 23, 2012
4:08 pm
McClatchy
Austin Tice "
has been incommunicado for more than a week, his whereabouts unknown since exchanging email with a colleague," Hannah Allam reports. Tice had been in Syria reporting for McClatchy, The Washington Post, CBS News, Al Jazeera English and other organizations, Allam writes.
Tice was due to leave Damascus for Lebanon after Aug. 11; the trip "often takes days because of the fighting en route," Allam writes. "The Damascus suburb where he was last known to have been has faced heavy bombardment in recent days that has made communications difficult."
McClatchy says it's working with other news organizations and the U.S. State Department to find Tice. Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli told Allam he's “focused intensively” on getting Tice home.
Correction: An earlier version of this story misspelled Hannah Allam's name.
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Andrew Beaujon
June 26, 2012
8:58 am
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Ed Shadid doesn't know the name of the person who allegedly overheard his cousin,
deceased New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid, argue with editors about returning to Syria. And so far he's
the only member of Anthony Shadid’s family who
publicly blames The New York Times for the reporter’s death. It doesn’t look like he’s getting company anytime soon.
The Los Angeles Times' Matt Pearce tries to track down other family members closer to the information.
- The unnamed sister-in-law who supposedly overheard the phone argument didn't return an email from the Times.
- Anthony's brother David: “I am sorry, I am not going to comment on this story in any way"
- Anthony's widow Nada Bakri didn't return a phone call, but she did tweet a statement that says she does "not approve of and will not be a part of any public discussion of Anthony's passing."
Moreover, Tyler Hicks, who accompanied Shadid on his last story, told Pearce "We both campaigned very hard to go on this assignment."
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Jeff Sonderman
Apr. 3, 2012
7:34 am
War reporters and photographers from The New York Times and the Associated Press talked at an
ASNE 2012 conference panel Monday about the dangers of working in war zones.
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- Moderator Susan Bennett posed questions to (left-to-right) C.J. Chivers, Rodrigo Abd and Tyler Hicks.
In one lengthy exchange, Times correspondent C.J. Chivers described his predicament as a journalist who had also served as a Marine infantry officer during the Gulf War. His military experience sometimes leads him to disagree with the tactics of the unit he is embedded with.
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Julie Moos
Feb. 22, 2012
10:13 am
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 22, 2012
8:04 am
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Jim Romenesko
Aug. 25, 2011
9:34 am
Romenesko Misc.
Karin Laub, Ben Hubbard, Dalton Bennett and Sergey Ponomarev win Associated Press' Beat of the Week "for putting AP at the forefront of the coverage of the campaign that has all but ended the four-decade rule of Moammar Gadhafi," writes senior managing editor Mike Oreskes. "Their graphic, first-hand reports dominated U.S. newspaper front pages. Of 51 papers checked, 29 used AP on the rebels' move into Tripoli. No competitor had more than nine fronts."
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