Cuba expels US journalist: report
Thu Feb 22, 9:57 AM ET
CHICAGO (AFP) - Cuba has told a Chicago Tribune correspondent that his stories were too "negative" and that he can no longer report from the country, the paper said Thursday.
Correspondent Gary Marx, who has been based in Havana since 2002, was told Wednesday that his press credentials will not be renewed and that he and his family must leave the country within 90 days, the Tribune said.
"They said I've been here long enough and they felt my work was negative," Marx told the paper. "They did not cite any examples."
A reporter from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, which is owned by the Tribune Company, will continue to staff the media conglomerate's Havana office. Cuban officials told Marx that they would welcome an application from a new Chicago Tribune correspondent.
But the paper said such an application might take time to process and the credentials would need to be renewed every 30 days.
"We're very disappointed and concerned by the news that the Cuban government has decided to not renew our correspondent's credentials and has asked him and his family to leave the island," said George de Lama, Chicago Tribune managing editor for news.
"Gary Marx is an accomplished, veteran journalist who has consistently given our readers accurate, incisive and insightful coverage from Cuba, working under sometimes difficult conditions," said de Lama, who helped establish the Tribune Co. bureau, which opened in Havana in March 2001.
"We remain committed to coverage of Cuba and its people, and we are assessing our options of how to proceed," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070222/ts_alt_afp/uscubapoliticsmedia_070222145700
Thu Feb 22, 9:57 AM ET
CHICAGO (AFP) - Cuba has told a Chicago Tribune correspondent that his stories were too "negative" and that he can no longer report from the country, the paper said Thursday.
Correspondent Gary Marx, who has been based in Havana since 2002, was told Wednesday that his press credentials will not be renewed and that he and his family must leave the country within 90 days, the Tribune said.
"They said I've been here long enough and they felt my work was negative," Marx told the paper. "They did not cite any examples."
A reporter from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, which is owned by the Tribune Company, will continue to staff the media conglomerate's Havana office. Cuban officials told Marx that they would welcome an application from a new Chicago Tribune correspondent.
But the paper said such an application might take time to process and the credentials would need to be renewed every 30 days.
"We're very disappointed and concerned by the news that the Cuban government has decided to not renew our correspondent's credentials and has asked him and his family to leave the island," said George de Lama, Chicago Tribune managing editor for news.
"Gary Marx is an accomplished, veteran journalist who has consistently given our readers accurate, incisive and insightful coverage from Cuba, working under sometimes difficult conditions," said de Lama, who helped establish the Tribune Co. bureau, which opened in Havana in March 2001.
"We remain committed to coverage of Cuba and its people, and we are assessing our options of how to proceed," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070222/ts_alt_afp/uscubapoliticsmedia_070222145700
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