What Went Wrong (and Right) with the Cluster Bomb Diaries?
The first project I started as an international, independent journalist was what I hoped would be an insightful, exceptionally produced piece (or series of pieces) that spliced together audio of interviews with cluster bomb victims in southern Lebanon. G, a photographer I met on my third day in Lebanon (about two weeks after the war [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )International Journalists Network
AUB’s Journalism Training Program director Magda Abu-Fadil sent a link to the International Journalists’ Network website, which offers a range of resources in Arabic, English, Farsi, Portuguese, Spanish and a weekly e-mail bulletin in one of these five languages. IJN has also recently inaugurated a column about online journalism called Webb on the Web that [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Talking about Independent Journalism in Northern Lebanon
Driving up to Nahr el Bared last Friday with my friend Tariq and another journalist I’d just met, we had a very different kind of conversation from the ones I remembered having after the summer 2006 war in Lebanon. Instead of exchanging information about the places we were about to land—Beddawi and Nahr el Bared, [...]
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