Achamilton 17

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My journalist!

Hello I am a college student at USI.

Adopt a journalist

I'm writing my first article about Shukri Abu al-Burghul, a journalist from Syria. Here are some of the references I have found:

• CPJ:
• IFEX:
• RSF:
• MAR15:
• SANA:
• ZT:
• GoogleNews/SANA:

First search

Ok, i put the work here on your main page. We'll use this for points, comments and questions. Here's an article one Wikpedia's sister project that will give you some more cites. Do not count the article itself as a reference but look the sources before for relveant ones that you do not have and copy the bare links of the articles. I think you're missing mentions. Here it is:

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Two_Syrian_journalists_killed_around_New_Year%27s_Day

Crtew (talk) 22:42, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

alternative spellings

I'll bet you anything there are alternative ways to spell his name! That's mostly why you're not finding everything. Easy to fix. Find more spellings by searching part of the name with part of what you know about him. Crtew (talk) 22:44, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Search

Search for "Syria Burghol". Crtew (talk) 19:43, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

LexisNexis

When you search Lexis/Nexis, you'll need to control for the date as many recent articles that mention the two western journalists will also mention in passing Burghol/Burghul. The problem is those recent articles do not add anything. The EU condemned his murder in mid January, and so you'll want to pick that up.Crtew (talk) 18:35, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Lexis-Nexis

Do your Lexis-Nexis search before you create your sandbox page. Crtew (talk) 01:33, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Lead

Write your lead before you create your sandbox page. Crtew (talk) 01:33, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Evansville meetup

You're invited to help plan and attend Wikimedia's very first Evansville meetup! Bob the WikipediaN ^{(talk • contribs)} 02:37, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

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