The eyes of the world are on a prison cell in Iran, where a young journalist named Roxana Saberi is on a hunger strike to win her freedom. She was convicted of espionage, after a one-day secret trial by an Iranian court. The Iranian-American dual citizen became a freelance reporter in Iran after participating in the RIAS German-American exchange program for broadcast journalists. Readers of this blog know that I have hosted German journalists in Los Angeles and West Palm, and went on the exchange myself in 2001, when I was still a professor at USC.
At the RIAS reunion in Las Vegas, Jon Ebinger of RTNDF gave an update on her situation. I also produced a video story in the one-person band seminar, interviewing John and RIAS program director Rainer Hasters. The video is posted at this link on the RTNDA convention website. http://rtnda.org/convention/?p=455 Many thanks to Regina McCombs of Poynter, reporter Kaci Christian and KPNX videojournalist Lynn French for the help.
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