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June 22, 2009

Media outlets remained silent for seven months after New York Times reporter David Rohde was abducted and held captive by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Only after his release this weekend, with his translator Tahir Ludin who's also a local reporter, did the public realize Rohde was in captivity. Editor & Pubisher's Joe Strupp analyzes the blackout.

Rohde was on a Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize in April for its coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan last year.

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