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NEWS ABOUT: photojournalist

photojournalist stories: 5 news summaries

 How I Got This Shot: Photog 

Widener recalls capturing Tank Man image 20 years ago

Jun 4, 09 6:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - On the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square, one image endures: a lone man standing in front of a column of tanks, refusing to let them pass. Jeff Widener, the AP photographer who captured the moment, tells USA Today how he evaded the police and the censors to take the shot... More »

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China • Beijing • Tiananmen Square • protests • photograph • People's Liberation Army • Associated Press • photojournalist • photojournalism

Reuters Journo Held by US in Iraq 8 Months

No charges against photographer; military cites insurgent ties

May 24, 09 7:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Amid the outrage over journalist Roxana Saberi’s detention in Iran, the US is holding a Reuters photographer in Iraq without charges, the Los Angeles Times reports. Ibrahim Jassam, 31, has been held since September “as the result of his activity with a known insurgent organization,” said a... More »

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Iraq • US military • detainee • photographers • journalist • photojournalist • Committee to Protect Journalists • Roxana Saberi • Ibrahim Jassam

 Fed-Up Photog 
 Ready to 
 Sue Moore 

Filmmaker used iconic pic without permission

Jan 15, 09 8:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Michael Moore may have gone too far this time: Prize-winning photographer Michael Yon is readying a lawsuit against the filmmaker for using one of his iconic photos from Iraq without permission, the New York Post reports. The image of an American soldier carrying the bloody body of an Iraqi child... More »

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Iraq • photography • lawsuit • photograph • Michael Moore • copyright infringement • photojournalist • Michael Yon

 Iraqi Army Rescues 
 British Journalist 

Photographer had been held in Basra for two months

Apr 14, 08 10:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iraqi troops rescued British photojournalist Richard Butler during a raid in Basra today, the Daily Telegraph reports. Storming a suburban house, soldiers found Butler with a hood over his head, but apparently unharmed. Butler had been working in Basra for CBS when he was abducted—by what were thought... More »

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Iraq • Basra • Iraq Army • Iraqi militias • photojournalist • Richard Butler

Obituary

 'Killing Fields'
 Photog Dith 
 Dead at 65 

Times photojournalist and anti-Khmer Rouge crusader had pancreatic cancer

Mar 30, 08 12:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Photojournalist Dith Pran, whose saga was re-created in the film The Killing Fields, has died of pancreatic cancer at 65, the New York Times reports. The Cambodian native became the Khmer Rouge's most vocal opponent after escaping in 1979, having worked in labor camps and survived on a spoonful... More »

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genocide • New York Times • Thailand • obituary • Pulitzer Prize • Cambodia • Khmer Rouge • Dith Pran • Sydney Schanberg • photojournalist • photojournalism • labor camp • The Killing Fields

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