The journalist’s parents, Judea and Ruth Pearl, who live in the Los Angeles area, hailed the news in a statement issued through the Daniel Pearl Foundation.

“We are gratified with this latest arrest and hope that justice will be served in a timely manner on all those who were involved in the abduction and murder of our son, Danny,” they said.

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“We are thrilled that Narda has accepted our offer to become Executive Director,” Daniel Pearl‘s parents and Foundation co-founders Judea and Ruth Pearl said in a release. “Her background as a journalist, editor and author, along with her extensive experience in working with nonprofits make her an ideal choice. More important, we believe that she understands and believes in our core message and will be able to articulate it to a broader audience.”

Zacchino is a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Communication Leadership and Policy and is one the co-founders of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

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Helen Radkey, an excommunicated Mormon who combs through the church’s archives, said that records indicate Pearl, who was Jewish, was baptized by proxy on June 1, 2011 at a Mormon temple in Twin Falls, Idaho.

“It’s a lack of respect for Danny and a lack of respect for his parents,” Pearl’s widow Mariane told the Globe. “Danny would laugh…because it’s silly. It’s a bit surreal…But there is a more serious concern behind it, of respecting people’s identity and integrity.”

Mariane Pearl also called on Mitt Romney to use his sway with the Mormon church to publicly condemn the posthumous baptisms of Jews without the consent of their estates.

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Nelson opened NPR’s Afghanistan bureau five years ago. Prior to that she was a reporter for both the LA Times and the Orange County Register.

Past winners of the Lovejoy Award, which has been given out annually since 1952, include Daniel Pearl and Katherine Graham. Nelson will formally be given her award at an October 16 ceremony at Colby.

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Isn’t America supposed to be the richest nation in this world? Then who are these homeless people on the streets? In Los Angeles, you can’t walk down the street without being approached by people who beg you for your spare change.

But in L.A. I also found the freedom that America is famous for. You can grow a long beard, or you have fake breasts; you can be as skinny as a stick of macaroni but still go out jogging, or you can sit in front of the TV all day long and be as round as a barrel — either way, you are fine, it is Los Angeles.
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His site also won the top prize for Best Website, Online Only.

The judges said of ERSNews.com: The world needs more investigative reporters, and it’s refreshing to find those who have the patience, focus and fortitude to do the hard work. Too bad they have such a lousy name. (OK, maybe we added that last bit.)

To make amends, we asked Eric to answer a few of our patented stupid questions. In the following Q&A, you’ll learn that not only is Eric a consummate journalist; he’s a consummate journalist whose mother still dresses him.

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The LA Times Op-Ed section really must be jinxed. First, the whole Martinez/Grazer fiasco. Today, section editor Nick Goldberg writes a moving piece about his friend, Daniel Pearl, whom he knew in Teheran, 10 years ago. He asks the question so many others have asked:

What would possess an American Jew to go to an after-hours meeting in Karachi, Pakistan, with an obviously hostile and possibly dangerous fundamentalist leader?

And, with just the worst timing in the world, answers:

Sure, there were killers and rejectionists and crazies, like the old Shiite mullah I met in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, who told me that that he’d never met a Jew but that if he did, he’d know it instantly and kill him; and the young Jihadi I met in Peshawar, Pakistan, who told me virtually the same thing. We knew that all was not well in the Muslim world, but it felt, somehow, like such people were on the fringes, not in the ascendancy.

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Perhaps we were naive. Perhaps I should have taken the old, bearded men more seriously when they said they wanted to kill Jews.

People in London and Glasgow are taking those sentiments very seriously.

Obviously Goldberg couldn’t have known about the attacks when he wrote the piece or fixed the publication date.

Readers expect, unfairly perhaps, that professional journalists have keener instincts and sharper observational skills than the ordinary traveler/tourist, as well as access to more information.
But what good is all that access and skill if the reporter ignores what he’d being told, face-to-face?

How might the world be different if more journalists, 10 years ago, had not consigned the threats of “old bearded men” to the fringes of the Muslim world?

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