MORE FUNDING FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
Media For Freedom - Nepal,Nepal,Nepal
Investigative journalism needs much more funding, says a new report from the Center for International Media Assistance, a project at the National Endowment ...
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Friday, January 11, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Journalists Attacked: Saed Kubenea
Tanzania: Mwanahalisi And Free Press
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
We have varieties of media outlets and investigative journalism is robust in some sections of the media. In fact even incidents in which journalists are ...
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AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
We have varieties of media outlets and investigative journalism is robust in some sections of the media. In fact even incidents in which journalists are ...
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Investigations: War for Terror in Peru
PERU: Operation Condor Tentacles Stretched Farther Than Previously ...
IPS - Italy
Award-winning US investigative journalist John Dinges, author of the 2004 book "The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three ...
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IPS - Italy
Award-winning US investigative journalist John Dinges, author of the 2004 book "The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three ...
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Journalists Attacked: Readers Put Out Hit
`Hitmen were possibly our regular readers`
IPP Media - Guardian - Dar es Salaam,United Republic of Tanzania
Investigative journalism digs deep. What we do is dangerous. I advise newspapers to write proven stories so as to remove any possibility of defamation,`` ...
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IPP Media - Guardian - Dar es Salaam,United Republic of Tanzania
Investigative journalism digs deep. What we do is dangerous. I advise newspapers to write proven stories so as to remove any possibility of defamation,`` ...
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Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Interesting: Pakistanis Oppose Reported U.S. Ops
Pakistanis See US as Greatest Threat
By m.idrees
From IPS’s brilliant investigative journalist, Jim Lobe. Amid reports that the administration of US President George W. Bush is considering aggressive covert actions against armed Islamist forces in western Pakistan, ...
The Fanonite - http://fanonite.org
By m.idrees
From IPS’s brilliant investigative journalist, Jim Lobe. Amid reports that the administration of US President George W. Bush is considering aggressive covert actions against armed Islamist forces in western Pakistan, ...
The Fanonite - http://fanonite.org
Interesting: U.S., UK Helping Smuggle Afghan Smack?
Trading with the Enemy
Canada Free Press - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
This is a letter I received from my Russian friend, Andrei Soldatov, a respected investigative journalist and the Managing Editor of an Internet Magazine ...
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Canada Free Press - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
This is a letter I received from my Russian friend, Andrei Soldatov, a respected investigative journalist and the Managing Editor of an Internet Magazine ...
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Monday, January 7, 2008
Declassified: History of NSA Sigint Ops During Vietnam
From the Federation of American Scientists' Secrecy News, Jan. 7, 2008: During the Vietnam War, North Vietnamese intelligence units sometimes succeeded in penetrating Allied communications systems, and they could monitor Allied message traffic from within. But sometimes they did more than that.
On several occasions "the communists were able, by communicating on Allied radio nets, to call in Allied artillery or air strikes on American units." That is just one passing observation (at p. 392) in an exhaustive history of American signals intelligence (SIGINT) in the Vietnam War that has just been declassified and released by the National Security Agency.
From the first intercepted cable -- a 1945 message from Ho Chi Minh to Joseph Stalin -- to the final evacuation of SIGINT personnel from Saigon, the 500-page NSA volume, called "Spartans in Darkness," retells the history of the Vietnam War from the perspective of signals intelligence. The most sensational part of the history (which was excerpted and disclosed by the NSA two years ago) is the recounting of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident, in which a reported North Vietnamese attack on U.S. forces triggered a major escalation of the war. The author demonstrates that not only is it not true, as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara told Congress, that the evidence of an attack was "unimpeachable," but that to the contrary, a review of the classified signals intelligence proves that "no attack happened that night."
Several other important Vietnam War-era episodes are elucidated by the contribution of SIGINT, including the Tet Offensive, the attempted rescue of U.S. prisoners of war from Son Tay prison, and more.
The author, Robert J. Hanyok, writes in a lively, occasionally florid style that is accessible even to those who are not well-versed in the history of SIGINT or Vietnam. The 2002 study was released in response to a Mandatory Declassification Review request filed by Michael Ravnitzky. About 95% of the document was declassified. (Unfortunately, several of the pages were poorly reproduced by NSA and are difficult to read. A cleaner, clearer copy will need to be obtained.)
See "Spartans in Darkness: American SIGINT and the Indochina War, 1945-1975" by Robert J. Hanyok, Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2002: http://www.fas.org/irp/nsa/spartans/index.html
On several occasions "the communists were able, by communicating on Allied radio nets, to call in Allied artillery or air strikes on American units." That is just one passing observation (at p. 392) in an exhaustive history of American signals intelligence (SIGINT) in the Vietnam War that has just been declassified and released by the National Security Agency.
From the first intercepted cable -- a 1945 message from Ho Chi Minh to Joseph Stalin -- to the final evacuation of SIGINT personnel from Saigon, the 500-page NSA volume, called "Spartans in Darkness," retells the history of the Vietnam War from the perspective of signals intelligence. The most sensational part of the history (which was excerpted and disclosed by the NSA two years ago) is the recounting of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident, in which a reported North Vietnamese attack on U.S. forces triggered a major escalation of the war. The author demonstrates that not only is it not true, as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara told Congress, that the evidence of an attack was "unimpeachable," but that to the contrary, a review of the classified signals intelligence proves that "no attack happened that night."
Several other important Vietnam War-era episodes are elucidated by the contribution of SIGINT, including the Tet Offensive, the attempted rescue of U.S. prisoners of war from Son Tay prison, and more.
The author, Robert J. Hanyok, writes in a lively, occasionally florid style that is accessible even to those who are not well-versed in the history of SIGINT or Vietnam. The 2002 study was released in response to a Mandatory Declassification Review request filed by Michael Ravnitzky. About 95% of the document was declassified. (Unfortunately, several of the pages were poorly reproduced by NSA and are difficult to read. A cleaner, clearer copy will need to be obtained.)
See "Spartans in Darkness: American SIGINT and the Indochina War, 1945-1975" by Robert J. Hanyok, Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2002: http://www.fas.org/irp/nsa/spartans/index.html
Journalists Attacked: Tanzania's Saed Kubenea Fights for His Life
Mhariri amwagiwa tindikali
By charahani(charahani)
Saed Kubenea, an investigative journalist in the weekly Mwana Halisi is fighting for his life in hospital after unknown armed men attacked him and a colleague in their office yesterday night in what he believes attempts to terminate his ...
Mzee wa Mshitu - http://charaz.blogspot.com/
By charahani(charahani)
Saed Kubenea, an investigative journalist in the weekly Mwana Halisi is fighting for his life in hospital after unknown armed men attacked him and a colleague in their office yesterday night in what he believes attempts to terminate his ...
Mzee wa Mshitu - http://charaz.blogspot.com/
Investigations: Wal-Mart Tax-Shelter Battle
Wal-Mart loses latest round in tax-shelter battle
By Ed Mierzwinski
The Journal also points out that investigative journalism makes a difference:. The ruling is the latest setback for the tax maneuver. At least three other states are challenging Wal-Mart's use of the tax strategy. ...
US PIRG Consumer Blog - http://static.uspirg.org/consumer/
By Ed Mierzwinski
The Journal also points out that investigative journalism makes a difference:. The ruling is the latest setback for the tax maneuver. At least three other states are challenging Wal-Mart's use of the tax strategy. ...
US PIRG Consumer Blog - http://static.uspirg.org/consumer/
The Web: Journos Should Get Wired
Why journalists need to build personal social networks now and for ...
By kiyoshimartinez
While I think that a lot of this makes sense, it doesn’t address any ideas of “quality” work that takes longer to do and might not reward important investigative journalism that’s often done at great financial cost to a newspaper. ...
Kiyoshi Martinez - nerdlusus blog - http://kiyoshimartinez.com/nerdlusus
By kiyoshimartinez
While I think that a lot of this makes sense, it doesn’t address any ideas of “quality” work that takes longer to do and might not reward important investigative journalism that’s often done at great financial cost to a newspaper. ...
Kiyoshi Martinez - nerdlusus blog - http://kiyoshimartinez.com/nerdlusus
Interesting: Stories the Media Missed
Missing in America: Investigative Journalism
By Cliff Parker, Interview with A.C. Thompson(DW Alliance LLC http://www.dwalliance.com)
The biggest stories of the last year -- carbon and extraordinary rendition -- went largely ignored by the US media. Now a shrinking print media market threatens reporters' ability to investigate these and other important stories.
news.newamericamedia.org - Media - http://news.newamericamedia.org
In the Courts: Suharto Vs. Time
Suharto v. Time
Wall Street Journal - USA
By finding for Mr. Suharto, the Supreme Court implied that investigative journalism was an "unlawful act" -- and imposes liability for that action. ...
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Wall Street Journal - USA
By finding for Mr. Suharto, the Supreme Court implied that investigative journalism was an "unlawful act" -- and imposes liability for that action. ...
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