18 março 2003

VITAMEDIAS
Media Are Split On Keeping Staff In Baghdad: NBC and ABC pulled their correspondents and crews yesterday, saying the safety risk had become too great. Meanwhile, CBS and CNN remain and say they are monitoring the situation.
Among print journalists, New York Times Co.'s flagship paper has directed its staff in Baghdad, one reporter and one photographer, to leave "immediately," a spokeswoman said. Reporters for Newsweek and the Washington Post, both published by Washington Post Co., remain, but the company is following the situation closely. Reuters Group PLC, which has 18 correspondents in the city, mostly local residents, largely plans to stay put.
Wary news crews abandon front lines as Iraq war looms: The BBC will keep an eight-member crew in Baghdad, moving from the Official Ministry of Information - a potential target - to a low-profile hotel.
Intent on "humanizing" the war, Britain's ITV has asked a local Baghdad family to keep a video diary and will allow viewers to phone in questions to front-line ITV correspondents.
World journalists issue "don't target media" appeal as war looms: Journalists and media workers in Baghdad must not be targeted by the military on either side, said the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the world's largest journalists organization, today.
"Military leaders must make sure that journalists and media are not in their sights as they prepare for war," said Aidan White, general secretary of the IFJ.
News Units to Share Baghdad Video: The five major U.S. television news organizations have struck an agreement that any video that can be uplinked out of Baghdad in the first 24 hours of the U.S. attack on Baghdad will be shared by ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC/MSNBC.