Tag: war

Iraq War Deadliest for Media since WWII

The war in Iraq has been the most deadly conflict for journalists since World War II, with 230 murdered since the US invasion March 2003 during seven years of occupation by the coalition forces, according to the press freedom group called Reporter without Borders. This is more than were killed during the entire Vietnam War,…

National Columnists’ Day – April 18

Ernie Pyle

By Sheila Moss Web Editor Tom Curley, president and CEO of the Associated Press, recently said that journalists need reasonable access to battlefields to provide the public a realistic view of what is happening in Afghanistan and other war zones.  Curley’s speech kicked off a conference on war and journalism at the University of Kentucky.…