Four New York Times Journalists Are Missing in Libya

Source: NYT

March 16, 2011, 1:07 PM | By JEREMY W. PETERS

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Editors at the paper said they were last in contact with the journalists on Tuesday morning New York time. The paper said it had received second-hand reports that members of its reporting team on the ground in the port city of Ajdabiya had been swept up by Libyan government forces.

The paper’s executive editor, Bill Keller, said The Times had not been able to confirm that information.

“We have talked with officials of the Libyan government in Tripoli, and they tell us they are attempting to ascertain the whereabouts of our journalists,” Mr. Keller said. “We are grateful to the Libyan government for their assurance that if our journalists were captured they would be released promptly and unharmed.”

The missing journalists are Anthony Shadid, the Beirut bureau chief and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting; Stephen Farrell, a reporter and videographer who was kidnapped by the Taliban in 2009 and rescued by British commandos; and two photographers, Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario, who have worked extensively in the Middle East and Africa.

Read more: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/four-new-york-times-journalists-are-missing-in-libya/

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Interactive map of how the rebellion has been unfolding in Libya since Feb 16 to today: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/25/world/middleeast/map-of-how-the-protests-unfolded-in-libya.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4773887

They seem to hold them for a day or so and then release them in the knowledge they'll immediately be flown home by their employers.

The interview includes a few of his Libya war pics:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/in-the-thick-of-libyas-brutal-fighting


I posted the link before in your thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4763461#4763496

:hi:

One of a few national treasures we have in American journalism.