Nieman Journalism Lab: Why the NYT was wrong to keep quiet about Rohde’s kidnap
July 2nd, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Press freedom and ethics
Matthew Ingram believes the cover-up of David Rohde’s kidnap made ‘things harder not just for future kidnapping victims such as Rohde, but for newspapers and other mainstream media outlets as a whole.’
Ingram responds to criticism in the comments below the post.
Also see: NYTimes.com: ‘Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia’
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September 10th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
[...] that looks back at the case of another New York Times journalist, David Rohde – the paper managed to keep news of his kidnap off Wikipedia until his escape seven months [...]