From New America Media: The families of detained journalists Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal and Sarah Shour  have created a website seeking their diplomatic release as well as posting news and information about them as it filters in. Click here for more info.
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Free the Hikers
Friday, August 21st, 2009From New America Media: Korean Media Cheer Reporters’ Release
Monday, August 17th, 2009New America Media News Report, Anthony Advincula and Eunji Jang, Posted: Aug 04, 2009
Editor’s Note: Eunji Jang is a creative writing major and media studies major at Hunter College and a writer for the WORD.
NEW YORK — As the news spread about the release of two U.S. journalists from a North Korean prison, the biggest question for some Korean ethnic media is: How about the South Koreans the North has been holding as hostages for years?
Read full story here.
Message from Eunji Jang: “I wrote an article with Oni [NAM New York City Editor AKA Anthony Advinclua} a week ago, and Oni told me it was featured on yahoo. We had only 2 hours to write it and we wrote it with our blackberries!“
Freelance Journalists Can Face Considerable Risks and News Organizations Need to Do More to Protect Them
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009Writing in light of the Iranian detaining of New America Media Journalist Shane Bauer and his friends, NAM editor Andrew Lam, author of “Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora,” pens this:
Statement by Sandy Close, Executive Director of Pacific New Service/New America Media, on the Iranian Detainment of NAM Journalist Shane Bauer, His Girlfriend and Another Friend
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
I first met Shane Bauer in the Fall of 2008 when he visited the office of New America Media before leaving for the Middle East. Shane planned to travel there with his girlfriend Sarah, where the two of them would study Arabic and deepen their understanding of the cultures of the region.
As a student, artist-photographer and linguist, Shane proposed writing for New America Media and Pacific News Service, its mothership, and sending us photographs while traveling. We expressed strong interest and have posted more than a dozen well-written articles by Shane, often accompanied by photographs.
Shane’s dispatches have been enlightening and follow in the long tradition of American travelers developing into accomplished correspondents. His fluency in Arabic and his writing and photography skills enable him to provide a valuable lens into what ordinary people are thinking and saying in the Arab world. We consider Shane to be a gifted young correspondent.
Shane emailed me in late July to say that he planned a one-week trip to Iraqi Kurdistan in order to get a feel for the region. He was interested in observing and covering the Kurdish elections and proposed writing an article for us about them. We were awaiting his coverage when we learned that he, his girlfriend and another friend had been detained by Iranian authorities in northern Iraq while reportedly on a hiking trip.
We support Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s call for information about the three missing Americans, and look forward to a positive resolution of the situation and their safe return.
Kick-Ass Journalism
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009And, yes, I am going. And so should anyone interested in K-A Journalism instead of Kiss-Ass Journalism which seems to be riding high on the waves.
Six Reasons Why Iran Cannot Be Explained in a Twitter Feed
Friday, July 3rd, 2009Eye on Arab Media
News Analysis, Jalal Ghazi
New America Media
The world’s attention is on Iran. But the rhetoric of reformists versus conservatives and students versus mullahs cannot capture the complexity of what is happening on the streets of Tehran. Here are six reasons why the situation in Iran cannot be reduced to simplistic headlines or Twitter feeds. (more…)
More Than 200 Ethnic Myriad Media Outlets Publish Editorial Supporting Immigration Reform
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009SAN FRANCISCO – More than 200 ethnic media outlets across the United States are publishing editorials this week urging the White House and Congress to quickly enact “a just and humane†immigration reform package. More are expected to publish the editorial over this week and next.
Time for Immigration Reform Is Now
Monday, June 29th, 2009Editor’s Note: This editorial was produced in association with New America Media, a national association of ethnic media, and was published by ethnic media across the country this week to bring attention to the urgency of immigration reform.
NAM Calls on Ethnic Media to Take A Stand on Immigration Reform
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009From New America Media Executive Director Sandy Close:
For the first time, New America Media is asking ethnic media across the country with whom we work to take a collective editorial stand on an issue that directly impacts the lives of millions of our audiences: Immigration reform.
The WORD’s Eunji Jang Interviewed by NAM Radio News Anchor/TV Producer Odette Keeley
Saturday, July 11th, 2009(more…)
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