Recommended reading for April 3, 2010
To do good writing, read good writing. Recommended reading for April 3, 2010: Margaret Atwood, Susan Orlean and more.
A year after being imprisoned in Iran, freelance journalist Roxana Saberi tells all
A year after being jailed for espionage in Iran, US freelance broadcast journalist Roxana Saberi has written a book, “Between Two World,” about the ordeal.
Freelance journalist Roxana Saberi released from prison in Iran
Iran released jailed U.S. freelance journalist Roxana Saberi today after a judicial court reduced the sentence of her April conviction on espionage charges on appeal, news agencies are reporting. Saberi had been in prison since her arrest in January for allegedly buying alcohol, charges that later were changed to being in the country on an [...]
Digital media industry week in review, for May 8
The week’s highlights from the digital media business: Imprisioned U.S. freelancer ends hunger strike – Roxana Saberi, the freelance broadcast convicted of spying in Iran ended a two-week hunger strike after Iranian authorities agreed to hold an appeal hearing for her next week. The Iranian-American freelance broadcast reporter was arrested in January and convicted of [...]
Iranian court convicts freelance journalist Roxana Saberi of spying
U.S. freelance broadcast journalist Roxana Saberi was sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran, where she had been accused of spying. Saberi, a former Miss North Dakota who’d reported from Iran for National Public Radio and other news organizations for the past six years, stood trial in Tehran earlier this week. According to news [...]
WordCount weekly online news recap for April 10
The week’s highlights from the freelance and digital news biz: It was a week for debating whether Google and the Internet have hurt or helped newspapers. Search engine guru and ex-newspaper reporter Danny Sullivan doesn’t understand newspapers’ anti-Google stance. But a poll of 43 mainstream media insiders conducted by The Atlantic and National Journal reveals [...]
Roxana Saberi update: Iran charges US freelancer with spying
Traffic’s way up this week from people doing Internet searches on Roxana Saberi, the U.S. freelance broadcast journalist I blogged about after officials in Iran detained her three months ago. So here’s an update: various news agencies are reporting that the U.S.-Iranian journalist has been formally charged with spying. London’s The Times, has this story [...]
Help fight for release of freelance journalist Roxana Saberi
UPDATED APRIL 18: U.S. freelance broadcast journalist Roxana Saberi was sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran, where she had been accused of spying. Saberi, a former Miss North Dakota who’d reported from Iran for National Public Radio and other news organizations for the past six years, stood trial in Tehran earlier this week. [...]
