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Remains of British Journalist Dom Phillips Found in Brazil, Minister Confirms

Human remains found buried in the Amazon rainforest have been confirmed as belonging to missing British journalist and environmentalist Dom Phillips. The identification was made on Friday, two days after a suspect had confessed to the murders of Phillips and a travelling companion,  Bruno Pereira. That suspect, fisherman Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, earlier in the…


Book Recommender: ’The Double Life of Katharine Clark,” a Real Life Story of Escaping Communism That Reads Like a Heart-Pounding Spy Thriller

Katherine Clark was an investigative reporter active between the 1940s and 1960s. She was the first female Allied war correspondent entering Berlin in 1945. Her 1950s beat was Eastern Europe. There, she spoke truth to power, what investigative reporters are supposed to do. But she spoke the wrong kind of truth about the wrong kind…


Al Jazeera Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh Fatally Shot in West Bank

Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was fatally shot while reporting in the West Bank, according to the Qatar-based network. Abu Akleh, 51, a Palestinian-American reporter for the network’s Arabic language channel, was wearing a press vest when she was hit by a bullet to the head Wednesday morning local time. She was rushed to the hospital…


Journalist Killed in Mexico Was Threatened in Recent Weeks

The director of an online news site in southeast Mexico had been threatened in recent weeks over her journalism before being killed with a colleague, her brother said Tuesday. Yessenia Mollinedo Falconi and Sheila Johana García Olivera, the director and a reporter, respectively, of the online news site El Veraz in Cosoleacaque were shot Monday…


Praise for ‘World Changer’ Journalist Killed in Ukraine

The U.S. journalist shot and killed in Kyiv on March 13 has been described as someone who cared about people and social justice. Brent Renaud, 50, was shot with another American photojournalist, Juan Arredondo, 45, while traveling by car at the Irpin checkpoint, near Kyiv. Renaud—who graduated from Southern Methodist University located in Dallas, Texas—was…


US Journalist Brent Renaud Killed in Ukraine, Kyiv Police Says

American journalist and filmmaker Brent Renaud was shot and killed in a combat zone near Kyiv, Ukraine, the region’s police chief said on Sunday. Andrey Nebitov, who heads the National Police in the Kyiv region, accused Russian troops of killing Renaud in Irpin, a northwestern suburb of Kyiv. The town has been the target of…


US Journalist Brent Renaud Killed in Ukraine, Kyiv Police Say

U.S. journalist and filmmaker Brent Renaud was fatally shot in a combat zone near Kyiv, Ukraine, the region’s police chief said on March 13. Andrey Nebitov, who heads the National Police in the Kyiv region, accused Russian troops of killing Renaud in Irpin, a northwestern suburb of Kyiv. The town has been the target of…


California City Honors Slain Journalist Chauncey Bailey

Officials in California commemorated journalist Chauncey Bailey, who was fatally shot in 2007, by naming a portion of a street in downtown Oakland in his honor. During a ceremony on March 5, a plaque and street signs were unveiled to officially name 14th Street from Broadway Street to Lakeside Drive as “Chauncey Bailey Way.” This is…


Global Great Reset Initiated | The Counter Culture Mom Show

The Great Reset, the Endgame—all phrases you probably have been hearing over the last year-and-a-half to two years, especially since the COVID-19 chaos hit. Are those phrases we need to be concerned about? What do they mean? Have they already started? All those questions and more will be answered on this episode of a Counter…


CPJ Provides Safety Advice to Journalists While Reporting on Winter Olympics in China

In preparing journalists for going to Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) issued safety advice to help journalists better guard themselves against the surveillance of the regime. China remains the world’s worst jailer of journalists for the third year in a row, with 50 behind bars, as the CPJ revealed. Both…