Reporter: Maryam Ghamgusar Translation from Dari to English: AJ&V Team I was waiting in Balkh province Women Department affairs directorate to interview with the director while a pallid woman who seems very alone, tired, wretched, desperate and violated by the name of Bigum came. She was in very bad mode with old cloths, around 40 years’ old age and still not married. Bigum is one of the bad traditions victims. The sad and sorrowful face of Bigum interested me to talk to her and know what really is her problem? With all stammering and hesitations, she finally wanted to share her story with me. ... - More

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Killed 1. Mishal Lang CanWest Canadian Magazine reporter in Kandahar by Mine. 2. Roperd Hammer Sunday Mirror Newspaper reporter in Helmand by Mine. 3. Abdul Majid Babi Kandahar information and Culture directorate by Taliban. 4. Sayed Hamid Noori Journalists Union Deputy, Kabul by Unknown. Injured 1. Taj Gul Aljazeera TV reporter in Ghazni, by Taliban. 2. Jowhan Silva New York Times reporter, in Kandahar by Bomb. Arrests 1. Abdul Jamil Spand Ariana TV Reporter in Kandahar, by Coalition forces. 2. Hewad Local TV reporter in Kandahar , by Coalition forces 3. Mohammad Yasin Yasin Pashton Ghak radio manager in Paktika by government authorities. 4. Rahmatullah Nikzad, Aljazeera reporter in Ghazni by foreign forces. ... - More

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JiCC membership now stands at 501 with a UNICEF worker from New Delhi, Rudrajit Das, joining just this morning - or evening depending on which side of the dateline you live in! Das has deep interest in wide ranging areas of global development.  ... - More

What is the most important thing for a group of Journalists in Afghanistan to do in the field of journalism? Many trust on trainings for new journalists and many others trust there should be a place that all journalists should come together and discuss. As a journalist or  a person who love his/her people , what do you suggest for ?

Regards

Malik Faisal Moonzajer 

AJC(Afghanistan journalists center) ... - More

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Take the JICC poll asking - is there crisis across world journalism?

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JICC

I have been following journalism in crisis updates via Google News for nearly two years now. An overwhelming experience, watching newsroom numbers tumble, 30,000 in the last two years in the US alone.

Outside of academia and trade commentators, however, mainstream mass media have ignored the issue completely.

Across the world, I am aware of only one mainstream newspaper, the UK Guardian, having devoted any space to journalism in crisis. Two online columns, by the same commentator (!), by turn alarmist, then dismissive.

If journalists won't cover debate around their own industry for mass media, then who will?

This is where advocacy efforts like this one enter the picture. Even if some much bigger and better resourced NGO swoops in and takes over the whole issue, I'll be wrapped.

Towards just that kind of succesful outcome, I have just been asked to provide a couple of introductory paragraphs for JICC, the Journalism In Crisis Coalition. The question: ... - More