President Obama Marks the 50th Anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’
On March 7, 1965, thousands of ordinary people took to the streets of Selma – a gateway to Alabama’s Black Belt region – to march for voting rights. Reverend Hosea…
Journalists Launch Campaign: Free Austin Tice
By Rakesh Raman Reporters Without Borders (RWB), a non-profit organisation based in France, has launched an online campaign #FreeAustinTice to get a kidnapped American journalist released. Austin Bennett Tice went…
ISIS Terrorists Damage Cultural Heritage Sites in Iraq
By Rakesh Raman A day after demolishing the ancient Assyrian city Nimrud near Mosul in Iraq, the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) militants attacked Saturday the cultural heritage…
Pulitzer Center to Discuss the Risks to Freelance Journalists
At a time when news outlets are more dependent than ever on freelance journalists, the risks those freelancers face have never been greater, observes the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.…