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In Memory Of Journalist James Wright Foley

John Biggs

BvbetLCIIAAa76v-1James Wright Foley, a 40-year-old freelance journalist, is dead, killed far from home and alone. It is a tragedy and a horror.

None of us have ever had to be as brave as James Wright Foley in our efforts as journalists and none of us here can understand the cost of his sacrifice.

Foley was kept captive in Syria since 2012 and his image only now resurfaced in a terrible video taken by the Islamic State Group in which he is allegedly beheaded. I beseech you not to watch it and instead remember him as a bold, fearless defender of freedom and practitioner of true journalism.

We’ve lost another great journalist. The world is poorer for it.

Here is a collection of his work.

https://twitter.com/Max_Fisher/statuses/501833318565179394

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John Biggs
John Biggs is a writer, consultant, programmer, former East Coast Editor and current contributing writer for TechCrunch. He writes mainly about technology, cryptocurrency, security, gadgets, gear, wristwatches, and the internet. After spending his formative years as a programmer, he switched his profession and became a full-time entrepreneur andwriter. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Laptop, PC Upgrade, Surge, Gizmodo, Men’s Health, InSync, Linux Journal, Popular Science, Sync, and he has written a book called Black Hat: Misfits, Criminals, and Scammers in the Internet Age.
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