Many photographers would wait decades to tackle shooting tough subjects like child labor in Bolivia’s mines. Not Daniel Burgui Iguzkiza, a freelance journalist and photographer based in Spain. After graduating from university in 2007, he…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH8CC-VyPmc&list=UUCIsbjh-gexWhBr4LGMj-Ow&feature=share In this week's free press watch, a Swedish-British journalist is targeted and killed in Afghanistan, an Iraqi suicide bomber kills 45, including 2 journalists on assignment, and 2 more journalists in Syria died while…
Author's note: A team from Global Journalist is currently attending and covering the East-West Center's Media Conference in Yangon, Myanmar. The team's report was edited by the East-West Center, and we have published the original…
The Ukraine is hardly the only place where Russia and the U.S. are jousting for influence these days. Though it may lack the intensity of the current stare down over Crimea, Moscow and Washington are…
On his first day of trial in Egypt, Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy told reporters to send the following message to his fiancé: "Tell her I love her. Big wedding when I get out.” His…
What do you do when you need to send a desperate message, but no one wants to hear it? Protest. Protest very loudly. And that is precisely what Femen does. Founded in Ukraine in 2008,…
On Feb. 24 seven Russians were sentenced to two to four years for participating in protests in Moscow against President Vladimir Putin in 2012. More than 600 people protesting the sentences were detained the same…
[caption id="attachment_367" align="aligncenter" width="790"] Global Journalist staff stand in solidarity with Al Jazeera journalists in Egypt.[/caption] Global Journalist stands in solidarity with the international community in a Global Day of Action asking for the…
The term Caucasus is said to originate from an ancient word meaning “ice-shining mountain” – an image familiar to any who have been watching the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. While the northern part of…
Seven years ago, when the Russian city of Sochi won the bidding for the 2014 Winter Olympics , few would have predicted the cost of the hosting the games equal the gross domestic product of…
