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When I was looking for a journalist that might interest me, I found
the trailer of the movie Jim: the James Foley story.
I wanted to watch this movie. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the website to do it legally. Then I decided to search written information about the main character: James Foley.
According to Wikipedia, this person grew up in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. He began his career as a teacher, but in the mid-2000s he turn to journalism. Starting in 2008, Foley worked for Tatweer development projects in Baghdad. Tatweer is a leading company that provides professional technical and management support and services for the planning, design, implementation, supervision, operation, and maintenance of transport, road and traffic facilities and systems. Foley was working to rebuild Iraq's civil service.
In 2010, James Foley applied for military embed-journalist accommodation status in Afghanistan to become a freelance journalist. In 2011, during the Syrian Civil War, he wrote for the military newspaper Stars and Stripes in Afghanistan, and GlobalPost in Libya. According to Global Post, James Foley was abducted on November 22, 2012, a cruel irony since it was Thanksgiving in America, a day of family celebration and coming together. Foley and Cantlie , a Brittish journalist, along with their driver and their translator Mustafa Kara’ali, were pulled over by four men in a silver Hyundai without license plates. Despite an enormous effort mounted by GlobalPost and Foley’s family, nothing was known about James.
His disappearance, because of the request of Foley’s family, was not made public until 2013 when his family launched a campaign seeking his release. There was a belief that James may possibly have been held in a prison by Syrian authorities, according to Wikipedia. However, On August 19, 2014, the Al-Qaeda splinter group Islamic State posted a graphic video online that purported to show the execution of U.S. journalist James Foley. The next day, U.S. intelligence officials confirmed that the video was authentic, says Committee to Protect Journalists. President Barack Obama said Foley's killing in public was an "act of violence that shocks the conscience of the entire world.”
Now there isThe James W. Foley Fellowship created in honor of this American journalist and the documentary that was directed by Foley’s childhood friend Brian Oakes.
This biography is to remember the honorable journalist James Foley and to remind new generation of journalists that it is important not only to be brave but also to be as cautions as possible.
the trailer of the movie Jim: the James Foley story.
I wanted to watch this movie. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the website to do it legally. Then I decided to search written information about the main character: James Foley.
According to Wikipedia, this person grew up in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. He began his career as a teacher, but in the mid-2000s he turn to journalism. Starting in 2008, Foley worked for Tatweer development projects in Baghdad. Tatweer is a leading company that provides professional technical and management support and services for the planning, design, implementation, supervision, operation, and maintenance of transport, road and traffic facilities and systems. Foley was working to rebuild Iraq's civil service.
In 2010, James Foley applied for military embed-journalist accommodation status in Afghanistan to become a freelance journalist. In 2011, during the Syrian Civil War, he wrote for the military newspaper Stars and Stripes in Afghanistan, and GlobalPost in Libya. According to Global Post, James Foley was abducted on November 22, 2012, a cruel irony since it was Thanksgiving in America, a day of family celebration and coming together. Foley and Cantlie , a Brittish journalist, along with their driver and their translator Mustafa Kara’ali, were pulled over by four men in a silver Hyundai without license plates. Despite an enormous effort mounted by GlobalPost and Foley’s family, nothing was known about James.
His disappearance, because of the request of Foley’s family, was not made public until 2013 when his family launched a campaign seeking his release. There was a belief that James may possibly have been held in a prison by Syrian authorities, according to Wikipedia. However, On August 19, 2014, the Al-Qaeda splinter group Islamic State posted a graphic video online that purported to show the execution of U.S. journalist James Foley. The next day, U.S. intelligence officials confirmed that the video was authentic, says Committee to Protect Journalists. President Barack Obama said Foley's killing in public was an "act of violence that shocks the conscience of the entire world.”
Now there isThe James W. Foley Fellowship created in honor of this American journalist and the documentary that was directed by Foley’s childhood friend Brian Oakes.
This biography is to remember the honorable journalist James Foley and to remind new generation of journalists that it is important not only to be brave but also to be as cautions as possible.