Editorial: Risking all to tell the truth

Source: Newsday

You don't have to wear a uniform to die in a battle zone. You can simply be carrying a notebook or a camera. As destruction and death surround you, you may die in the simple act of trying to make sense of the terrifying chaos of war, so that y ...
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Kidman dedicates Hemingway movie role to slain reporter

Source: France 24

Nicole Kidman, pictured here, said Friday she dedicated her performance in new film "Hemingway and Gellhorn" to the US woman reporter for Britain's Sunday Times who was killed this year in Syria. Colvin was killed along with French photograp ...
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Cannes Celebrates Philip Kaufman With Hemingway & Gellhorn

Source: The Huffington Post

It's no surprise that Philip Kaufman -- perhaps the most European of American filmmakers -- was drawn to the passionate story of Ernest Hemingway and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn. Kaufman is a consummate ...
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Huffington Post Canada's Favourite Blogs Of Our First Year

Source: The Huffington Post

In all the preparations that have been taking place for the celebration of HuffPost Canada's first birthday -- among them collecting stats such as "How many bloggers do we have now?" and "How many comments have we post ...
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Marie's place is empty

Source: New Statesman

Marie Colvin (right) with the Duchess of Cornwall in November 2010 (Photo: Getty Images) I walk along Fatemi Avenue in Tehran amid the swirling dust of a gathering electrical storm, the tulip-shaped towers of the Hotel L ...
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King Priam, a pacifist's opera, can still shed light on the trauma of war - The Guardian

Source: Brighton & Hove News

That may be about to change. King Priam is to receive a concert performance at the Brighton festival this weekend. Meanwhile, English Touring Opera is advancing plans to stage the work in the 2014-15 season, its first UK production since English Nation ...
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Stony Brook University plans Marie Colvin center

Source: Newsday

Stony Brook University plans to open a center for international journalism in memory of Marie Colvin, the acclaimed war reporter who was killed Feb. 22 in Syria .The Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting will pay tribute to th ...
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Tom taunted over money from Murdoch

Source: This Is London

The referral to parliamentary standards commissioner John Lyon came from Lord Willoughby de Broke, a Ukip member of the House of Lords. The peer wrote to Lyon asking him to investigate why Watson had not disclosed the publishing deal — first announced in ...
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Your Life: Your Life: Alex Crawford puts us on the front line

Source: Coventry Telegraph

AWARD-winning Sky News war correspondent Alex Crawford has plenty of tales of survival and heroism on the frontline during the 2011 Arab uprisings. But the very obvious dangers she faces were dramatically brought home by ...
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Lifetime achievement Webby award for Michael Bloomberg

Source: Journalism.co.uk

Founder of one of the first truly digital media companies has 'completely changed the way people interact with information in real time', judges said The founder of the financial newswire service Bloomberg has been awarded a lifetime ...
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