New York, November
20, 2009—A Mexican reporter who had recently covered corruption and
organized crime was reported missing this week in the western state of
Michoacán, according to local news reports. María Esther Aguilar Cansimbe, at left, was
last seen on November 11 near her home in
Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez was astounded this week by
President Barack Obama’s decision to respond a written questionnaire Sánchez submitted
to the White House. Still recovering from bruises left by a recent vicious attack
by state security agents, she told CPJ from her home in
New York, November 19, 2009—The Committee to Protect
Journalists condemns the Singapore government’s refusal to renew British freelance
journalist Benjamin Bland’s work visa and its rejection of his application to
cover the recently concluded Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit
meeting. Bland had planned to report on the summit for the
Washington, November 19, 2009—Naziha Réjiba,
editor of the Tunisian online news journal Kalima,
said she knows what to expect when she returns home—surveillance, harassment,
and threats conducted by one the world’s most repressive governments.
As the news editor of Zambia’s largest circulation newspaper and a mother to two young children,
After The Boy
Who Harnessed the Wind, the autobiography of ingenious
22-year-old William Kamkwamba’s homemade electric
windmill in Malawi, comes “the boy who harnessed the airwaves” by building a radio station
with rudimentary materials. The tale of 21-year-old Malawian Gabriel
Kondesi also showcases the inventiveness spawned by life in this impoverished, landlocked
nation in southeastern