Iran's Hardliners Headed for More Trouble
Allan Dodds Frank is a business investigative correspondent who specializes in white collar crime. He also is President of the Overseas Press Club of America, one of the many journalism organizations that protests the arrests of journalists abroad and repression of freedom of speech.
Roxana Saberi, out of prison in Tehran and safe on American soil, says Iran's rulers won't be able to quiet the nation's unrest.
The Heroes Who Can Save Journalism
Peter Osnos is a senior fellow for media at The Century Foundation. Osnos is the founder and editor at large of PublicAffairs Books. He is vice chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review, a former publisher at Random House, and was a correspondent and editor at the Washington Post.
From David Rohde's escape from the Taliban to citizen journalists in Tehran, Peter Osnos says recent acts of journalistic bravery offer lessons for the flailing media industry about how to reconcile professional news providers with amateurs.
The Week In Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
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How Danny Pearl Helped Save David Rohde
Asra Q. Nomani is the author of Standing Alone: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam. She is co-director of the Pearl Project, an investigation into the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Her activism for women’s rights at her mosque in West Virginia is the subject of a PBS documentary, The Mosque in Morgantown. She can be found on Facebook, and reached at asra@asranomani.com
As more reporters are held in Tehran and one is now free from the Taliban, Asra Q. Nomani-who was with Danny Pearl when he was kidnapped-on what the media has learned since then and how it is saving reporters' lives.
Why Iran Freed Roxana Saberi
Haleh Esfandiari is the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. She recently completed a memoir, My Prison, My Home, based on her eight months arrest in Iran in 2007 of which she spent 105 days in solitary confinement in Tehran's Evin Prison. The book will be published in October.
As a former prisoner in Iran, Haleh Esfandiari can relate to recently imprisoned journalist Roxana Saberi. In a Daily Beast exclusive, she explains what the saga means for U.S.-Iranian relations.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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