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BRKNG: NBC News Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel Has Gone Missing In Syria... News Blackout
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 30108220:MV8yMDg0NTU2XzM1MTA5MDMzX0YyMzU3MDU4] [quote:Epic Beard Guy:MV8yMDg0NTU2XzM1MTA0ODI2XzY3M0QzQ0Yz] Can we send the rest of NBC to look for him? [/quote] Send that maddow kid. he looks tough. [/quote]
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NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel has gone missing in Syria, according to Turkish news reports. The reports also say that Aziz Akyava, a Turkish journalist working with Engel, is unaccounted for. NBC News has been successfully keeping Engel's status subject to a news blackout—one to which Gawker agreed until now—for at least the past 24 hours.
Turkish newspaper Hurriyet is reporting that Engel and Akyavaş were last known to be in Syria and haven't been in contact with NBC News since Thursday morning. The news has been reported widely in the Turkish press over the past 24 hours, including by Turkish news channel NTV, which presents itself as an international partner of MSNBC. It's also been widely distributed on Twitter.
But NBC News has been asking every reporter who inquires about the report to participate in a news blackout. It has also taken to Twitter and asked people who repeated the Turkish reports there to take them down. You can see here a screengrab of the Twitter account @NBCComm asking a Twitter user who had mentioned the reports to urgently call a cell phone number (that account has since been taken down).
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