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Family seeks medical treatment for jailed journalist Mohamed Fahmy
The
family of jailed Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy is seeking his
temporary release from an Egyptian jail for medical treatment, amid new
signs that the country’s President will not step in to resolve the case.
Mr. Fahmy, Cairo bureau chief for Al Jazeera English, is
suffering from hepatitis C and an injured shoulder, his brother says.
“[Mohamed] is not well, but he’s trying to stay strong,” Adel
Fahmy said in an interview on Sunday, describing his brother’s condition
as “life threatening.” Read more
Knife wielding man injuries three at Hong Kong media outlet
A
man carrying two knives was able to enter the headquarters of Hong Kong
Cable Television and injure three people, according to police reports.
At around 11 o’clock on September 22, a man aged about 20, armed
with two knives, entered the building at Tsuen Wan in the New
Territories and attacked three persons, including a security guard and a
staff member of the news department. According to police, the alleged
attacker wanted to meet a person from Cable TV to discuss his service
contract with the company. When the security officer refused to let the
suspect into the building, the suspect slashed at the guard. According
to a report on Cable TV, the security guard’s head and hand were hurt,
and the cameraman’s head was hit once by the suspect when he tried to
intervene to stop the attack. The alleged attacker was also injured. Read more
Diverse voices are missing from the debate over showing the Rice video
Poynter’s resident writing coach, Roy Peter Clark, argues that such violent videos need to be made public because they create “the public outrage and outcry that pierces the shield of even such impenetrable institutions of the NFL.”
His reasoning points to a growing chasm of compassion, dignity and
empathy in U.S. media that has grown from fault lines of race, class and
gender.
What Clark implies is that it’s OK to use a person’s private
experience — in this case, one that Janay Rice did not consent to or
have knowledge of — if it serves a greater good. I take issue with his
failure to mention how media routinely ignore the voices of women of
color, especially those who are victims of intimate partner violence —
until it happens that one of those women is a public figure. Read more
ASNE: Two-thirds of U.S. newspapers employ women in top editing jobs
The year 2013 was another gloomy year for newspaper women and
men. The overall count of full-time daily newspaper staffers dropped to
about 36,700 from about 38,000 last year — down about 3%. If there is a
silver lining, it is that the rate of job loss slowed from the previous
year, when it was down about 6%. The high-water mark for the ASNE
census was 56,900 full-time newsroom staffers in 1989 — fully 20,000
more than today. This year marks the first time that ASNE has tried to
identify women in the very top tier of newspaper leadership. And it
comes in the wake of the firing earlier this year
of the nation’s most prominent female editor — Jill Abramson of The New
York Times — for issues related to “management in the newsroom.” (She
was succeeded by an African-American, Dean Baquet; 15% of the papers surveyed told ASNE they had a minority journalist in one of the three top editing jobs.) Read more
