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Ryan said:
The chain of people who moved video of an Iranian woman's violent death from the street to the Web are honored.
Quote: The panel that administers the George Polk Awards, based at Long Island University, said it wanted to acknowledge the role of ordinary citizens in disseminating images and news, especially in times of tumult when professional reporters face restrictions, as they do in Iran. The university said it had never bestowed an award on an anonymous work before. Added: February 22, 2010 at 10:31AM EST
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Ryan said:
Passed on by Josh Wolf on Twitter, this was written by a journalist friend of the Americans who were arrested in Iran after apparently wandering across the border. (I've engaged in similar improvised camping trips in unknown territory abroad, but was nowhere near a border like this at the time.)
Added: August 7, 2009 at 9:58AM EDT
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This is the best story I've seen on Global Post yet, possibly helping to squash my initial wave of unimpressedness with the effort. It's real reporting on a real issue by a real journalist in a real place. Like, say, prison in Iran.
Added: August 3, 2009 at 9:03PM EDT
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- jimsciuttoABC: 1st video from protest today RT @potkazar http://bit.ly/akGSq #iranelection #neda
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More from Jim Sciutto, who is monitoring social media channels for news coming out of Iran and tweeting it to his 9,200+ followers.
Added: July 30, 2009 at 9:36AM EDT
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- jimsciuttoABC: Neda's mother pressured not to attend: 'for reasons I can't say, I cannot attend the ceremony of my own daughter' #iranelection #neda
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Ryan said:
Jim Sciutto has been one of the most reliable, consistent journalists on the ground in and around Iran during the post-election protests, especially on Twitter.
Added: July 30, 2009 at 8:14AM EDT
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Excellent liveblog from the Guardian U.K. with a ton of links to photos, videos, and translations of Rafsanjani's speech at Friday prayers.
Added: July 17, 2009 at 2:45PM EDT
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Ryan said:
Dan Wasserman's political cartoon notes the difficulty of figuring out who's the Press in Iran, from the Iranian government's point of view.
Added: June 23, 2009 at 11:43AM EDT
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Ryan said:
A great flowchart explaining Iran's "combination of democracy and Islamic theocracy" from the WSJ.
Added: June 22, 2009 at 3:03PM EDT
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- Former Iran President at Center of Fight Between Classes of the Political Elite - NYTimes.com
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Ryan said:
A good explainer on Rafsanjani.
Added: June 22, 2009 at 2:51PM EDT
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Fisk in the night in the streets of Tehran, working against the foreign press ban, witnesses a scene: Iranian troops defending Iranians from the militia.
Added: June 17, 2009 at 6:38AM EDT
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