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This page is dedicated to journalists who were assassinated in the exercise of their profession. It remembers their contribution to freedom of expression, democracy and peace. UNESCO encourages press freedom and campaigns for greater safety of media professionals. UNESCO is the only United Nations agency with a mandate to defend freedom of expression and press freedom. Article 1 of its Constitution requires the Organization to “further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion,...

Now that two days have passed since we heard the news of the resignation, a few thoughts… First, let’s recognize the context: Once Eason Jordan wrote that New York Times op-ed, his reputation had a big black mark on it. Jordan deserved a smidgen of credit: it must have taken guts to write that op-ed, and to admit that CNN knew about certain horrific activities by Saddam, Uday, Qusay, and the secret police “that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff.” But a serious rebuke, or at...

(CNN) -- Cable News Network on Thursday retracted its story that the U.S. military used nerve gas in a mission to kill American defectors in Laos during the Vietnam War... Nothing is more important to a news organization than its reputation for accuracy, fairness and responsibility... Building and maintaining high standards of journalistic excellence have been critical to the success of CNN since its launch 18 years ago...There is insufficient evidence that sarin or any other deadly gas was used...Furthermore, CNN can not confirm that American defectors were targeted or at the camp as NewsStand reported..."