As the Internet and mobile communications become more integrated into reporters' work, the digital threats to journalists' work and safety have increased as well. While many press reports have documented Internet surveillance and censorship--and the efforts to combat them--mobile communications are the new frontline for journalist security.
This week's deadly unrest in Mozambique became a global news story in part because reporters and citizen journalists used new media and social networking tools. Clashes between security forces and people protesting rising prices in the capital, Maputo, left at least seven people dead and more than 200 people injured, according to the latest news reports.
New York, December 8, 2008--The convicted murderer of Mozambique's foremost investigative
journalist, Carlos Cardoso,
escaped from his high-security cell in on Sunday morning, local journalists
told CPJ. This is the third time the assassin Anibal dos Santos Jr., commonly
referred to as Anibalzinho, has escaped prison in
New York, February 16, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes this week’s ruling by a Mozambican court to reject the appeals of six hired killers of leading investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso.
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