Fairfax journalists remain in custody after deadly Israeli raid

Tim Burrowes

June 1, 2010 11:17

The Sydney Morning Herald was today still out of touch with its two journalists being held after Israeli military commandos yesterday stormed an aid convoy they were accompanying.

However Fairfax chief correspondent Paul McGeough and photographer Kate Geraghty, are “both safe” the newspaper said.

In a piece in The Sydney Morning Herald today, the phone conversation with chief correspondent McGeogh was recounted up to the moment when his phone went dead during the deadly confrontation:

”The searchlights of the Turkish passenger ferry scan the water. Now there are five of them astern of us, white wakes on black water,” reported McGeough.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.