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Associated Press correspondent Christopher Torchia was embedded for four weeks with U.S. Army units supporting a U.S. Marine offensive against the Taliban in the Afghan city of Marjah. He reflects on the troubling personal and professional questions posed by his experience. Read the article here.

In Tehran, journalists faced vague antistate accusations during mass, televised judicial proceedings.
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REYNOSA, Mexico — The big philosophical question in this gritty border town does not concern trees falling in the forest but bodies falling on the concrete: Does a shootout actually happen if the newspapers print nothing about it, the radio and television stations broadcast nothing, and the authorities never confirm that it occurred?
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NEW YORK (AP) -- ABC News staffers got a memorandum Tuesday that promises to leave no part of the organization untouched, and will lead to massive personnel reductions by the end of 2010.
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Television viewers in the United States seeking international news are starting to switch over to foreign channels to learn what is happening in the outside world, media watchers here say.
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Last year 110 journalists were killed in the line of duty, making 2009 the deadliest year in the decade, according to the latest report of the International Press Institute.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — A British journalist embedded with an American unit in Helmand Province was killed along with a Marine when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb, the British Defense Ministry reported Sunday. It was the second time in two weeks that a Western journalist had been killed on an embedded assignment, underscoring the increased risk on the roads as military operations intensify in Afghanistan

The violent news out of Afghanistan on Wednesday was as tragic as it was surprising. A suicide bomber somehow managed to slip into a tightly secured military base in Khost Province and set off his explosives, killing at least six Americans, some of whom were C.I.A. operatives.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — At least two people were killed and 18 were injured when a suicide bomber attacked the press club in the restive northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday, officials said.
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OTTAWA — Amanda Lindhout was a waitress at an Irish pub in Calgary, Alberta, with a dream of becoming a journalist. But Ms. Lindhout, who has no formal journalistic training, did not join the ranks of citizen journalists who blog about their communities. Instead, she used her earnings from the bar to finance reporting trips to several of the world’s most dangerous war zones. Photo by the Canadian Press.