Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
Militias attack two Libyan TV stations
By  • 2 September 2014
Two prominent Libyan television stations were attacked by Islamist militias Aug. 24 and Aug. 25, leaving several journalists kidnapped and the newsrooms ransacked. On Aug. 24, Al-Assema TV’s offices in the capital Tripoli were raided…
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U.S. journalist executed by Islamist radical group
By , • 20 August 2014
The video that emerged on the Internet Aug. 19 was titled: “A Message to America (from the Islamic State).” A man on his knees dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit was identified as “James Wright…
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Nigerian army targets media after Boko Haram attacks
By  • 10 June 2014
Nigerian soldiers interfered with the distribution of several of the country’s major newspapers June 6 amid criticism over the military’s failure to free nearly 300 schoolgirls captured by Islamist militant group Boko Haram. The newspapers…
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