Reporter/Producer/Writer/Camera/Edit: Gizem Yarbil
Co-Producer: Matthew Kennard
Still Title Photo: Zachary Goelman
Members of a neo-Nazi group calling themselves America’s Nazi Party rallied in Washington this Saturday against illegal immigration. As they rallied near the Capitol, others gathered to protest the presence of the neo-Nazis, keeping police busy throughout the afternoon.
Reporter: Gizem Yarbil
Producer: Yaldaz Sadakova
Written by: Gizem Yarbil and Yaldaz Sadakova
Special Thanks to: Begin North Productions
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You never know who you’ll run into on the streets of New York…
Published: Global Press Watch
In a country of political and ethnic turmoil, self-censorship is a common practice among Turkish journalists. Among the major factors that put pressure on journalists are: corporate ownership of media, the economic dependence of some of these corporations on the government, the military’s influence on reportage, and a political atmosphere of heightened nationalism, which is reflected in a criminal law that subjects journalists to prosecution for insulting “Turkishness.” At the same time, some progress toward greater press freedom can be seen in recent years as the number of journalists imprisoned because of their work has sharply declined from the 1990s. Read the rest of the article.
Producer: Gizem Yarbil, Reporter: Robb Thompson
Published: The Columbia Journalist, Global Press Watch
With journalism moving toward the web, a discussion is brewing over who exactly is a journalist. Here is the story of one man who’s taking the NYPD to court over the issue.
Published: Global Press Watch
The Turkish press has shown increased interest in the U.S. presidential primary elections now that the Democratic race is getting more and more heated. In the run up to February’s Super Tuesday elections, most of the Turkish media relied on wire service reports. However, for the March 4 Democratic primaries in Ohio and Texas, most major Turkish newspapers had their reporters in Washington cover the event first hand. Read the rest of the article.
Published: Global Press Watch
American politics has always been prominent in the Turkish press and most Turkish papers cover important U.S. news intensively. However, the run-up to the 2008 primary elections and caucuses has coincided with a very busy political period in Turkey. At the moment, the Turkish media is full of coverage of the incursion of the Turkish army into Northern Iraq and the ongoing armed conflict between the Turkish army and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in southeast Turkey. Another event that is dominating the news agenda is the ruling conservative Islamist Justice and Development Party’s stubborn effort to change the law that bans the veil in Turkish universities. Thus, the elections in America have not yet become a prominent spectacle in the Turkish press. Read the rest of the article.
