Joe Sharkey.com: Global Journalist Group Issues Alert on Brazil Defamation Lawsuit

By JOE SHARKEY

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Global Journalist Group Issues Alert on Brazil Defamation Lawsuit

The Committee to Protect Journalists issued a worldwide alert today on the defamation lawsuit filed against me for reporting on the 2006 Amazon mid-air collision in Brazil.

Here's the alert.

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Joesharkey.com at 1:31 PM

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Joesharkey.com: Joe Sharkey's work appears in major national and international publications. For 19 years until 2015 he was a weekly columnist for the New York Times. He is now a weekly travel and entertainment columnist with the global website Travel.Buzz, as well as an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Arizona, He has written five books, four non-fiction and a novel, one of which is in development as a movie. Previously, he was an assistant national editor at the Wall Street Journal and a reporter and columnist with the Philadelphia Inquirer. On Sept. 29, 2006, he was one of seven people on a business jet who survived a mid-air collision with a 737 over the Amazon. All 154 on the 737 died. His report on the crash appeared on the front page of the New York Times and later in the Sunday Times of London magazine. He and his wife Nancy (who is a professor of journalism at the University of Arizona) live in Tucson with horses and parrots. He is working on a new novel about an international travel writer who hates to travel. "JoeSharkey.com" is Copyright (c) 2006-2015 by Joe Sharkey.

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Global Journalist Group Issues Alert on Brazil Defamation Lawsuit

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