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The husband of an American journalist jailed in North Korea says his wife described her confinement during a recent phone call as "bearable."Iain Clayton, the husband of Laura Ling, said Wednesday his wife called him on Sunday night. He said although she tried to be strong on the phone, she sounded scared.
Clayton spoke after a vigil at San Francisco's Academy of Art University for Ling and Euna Lee, the other American reporter jailed in North Korea.
He says Ling's medical condition has deteriorated and Lee has developed a medical problem. Ling reportedly suffers from an ulcer. more >

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SEOUL, South Korea – Two American journalists sentenced by North Korea last week to 12 years of hard labor were caught shooting video for what the North said was a politically motivated "smear campaign," state-run media said Tuesday.
The reporting team from Current TV crossed the frozen Tumen River dividing North Korea and China three months ago and walked up the river bank — all the while recording their transgression, the official Korean Central News Agency said. more >

Jim DeRogatis is a music-journalist extraordinaire, and if you take an interest in rock music in general or have read any record reviews over the years, chances are his name rings a bell. He's the official pop music critic at the Chicago Sun-Times, and over the years he's authored several great books...Staring at Sound: The True Story of Oklahoma's Fabulous Flaming Lips (Broadway Books, 2006); Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock (Hal Leonard, 2003); Milk It! Collected Musings on the Alternative Music Explosion of the '90s (Da Capo, 2003), and, (my personal favorite) Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic... more >

On World Press Freedom Day we should celebrate the success of independent journalism in Iraq, against all the odds and despite the many, continuing dangers. No newspaper in Iraq ever covered the fall of Saddam, that spring of 2003. The day after American troops and tanks took control of central Baghdad, and crowds toppled the statue of Saddam in that iconic image in Firdows Square, the operations manager of the Baath Party's official newspaper al-Thawra walked into the offices and asked the editor where the morning paper was. "What paper?" the flustered editor replied. "Baghdad has fallen and the regime have escaped with their lives!" more >

(by Holly Edgell) Russ Mitchell may just be the hardest-working man in broadcast television news. He’s the news anchor for the CBS “Early Show” and the anchor of the Sunday evening edition of CBS “Evening News.” He also continues to cover major stories around the globe. On election night this year, he was deployed to Atlanta. Just a few days later he was in Athens, Greece as of the Early Show’s “Destination Unknown Series.” more >