If you use the increasingly popular microblogging service Twitter, you might be interested to know who is on Twitter from the Frontline blogs, how often they tweet and how to follow them. First up, you’ll need an account, Second, find and follow the bloggers that interest you most. Here’s a round up of Frontline bloggers currently active on Twitter. If I’ve missed anyone, please shout out in the comments.

@frontlineblog – breaking news and views from the world of international news reporters, tweeted by me covering some stories mentioned on the Frontline blog.

@frontlineclub – news from the club about events and what’s going on at the Club in London.

@mexicoreporter – Deborah Bonello in Mexico City, currently trying to navigate the Swine flu story.

@TheOwenTake – Frontline Club Chairman John Owen and news from and about his blog.

@ljmaximus – Ali S. Novruzov, blogger in Baku, Azerbaijan.

@daxe – David Axe in Africa, not updated for a while though, although he’s blogging from Gabon at present.

@syrianews – Sasa recently joined as he blogs from Damascus and London.

@julietomlin – Julie is the Programme Editor for the Frontline Charitable Trust and she blogs on the Frontline Forum and the media.

@dan_10v11 – Daniel Bennett blogs about the impact of new media on the BBC’s coverage of conflict.

@robcrilly – Rob tweets from Nairobi, Sudan, DRC and beyond. He’s currently writing a book about Darfur. His blog is here.

@adamblenford – Adam blogs about photojournalism.

@strickvl – Alex is based in Kandahar, Afghanistan and regularly blogs and tweets from there.

@onewmphoto – Onnik is blogging and tweeting from Yerevan, Armenia.

@fieldreports – Guy Degen is based in Bonn, Germany, but tweets and blogs from Africa and beyond.

@thejjunkie – Isabelle is based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

@salam – Salam Pax is based in Baghad.

@scarlettlion – Otherwise known as Glenna Gordon, based in Monrovia, Liberia.

@mikewhills – ex-TimesOnline, just moved to Beirut, soon to blog with us here.

@mortenhvaal – Morten is a photojournalist, based in Sri Lanka and will be blogging with us soon.

@hyfreelance – Hodan Yusuf-Pankhurst is a freelance journalist and blogs from Hargeisa, Somalia.

@vaughansmith – Frontline Club Founder, soon to be again Afghanistan blogger and irregular tweeter.

@kylemacrae – not currently blogging with us, but did write a great blog on Citizen journalism.

@benhammersley – Ben blogged with us briefly when we first set the blogs up. He’s a founding member of the Club and now works at Wired UK.

@totalfrontline – an automated Twitter channel combining Frontline blog posts, events, articles, news and more.

I’ll keep this post updated as new bloggers join us and as and when older bloggers start using Twitter. If you sign up, let us know in the comments or send an @message to @frontlineblog.

“The post-9/11 world is now clearly drawn,” Reporters Without Borders said. “Destabilised and on the defensive, the leading democracies are gradually eroding the space for freedoms. The economically most powerful dictatorships arrogantly proclaim their authoritarianism, exploiting the international communityâ€s divisions and the ravages of the wars carried out in the name of the fight against terrorism. Religious and political taboos are taking greater hold by the year in countries that used to be advancing down the road of freedom.” link

Only a few countries rose noticeably in the ranking namely,

Lebanon (66th), for example, has climbed back to a more logical position after the end of the bomb attacks on influential journalists of recent years. Haiti (73rd) continues its slow rise, as do Argentina (68th) and Maldives (104th). But the democratic transition has halted in Mauritania (105th), preventing it from continuing its rise, while the slender gains of the past few years in Chad (133rd) and Sudan (135th) were swept away by the overnight introduction of censorship.

With a degree in Russian and German from Leeds University, he was an ideal choice as a foreign correspondent and worked in both countries. “Itâ€s very hard to operate in these places and the KGB and Stasi were not easy to deal with,” he said. link

“Foreign Policy is a terrific magazine, and I’m pleased it will become a part of our company,” said Donald E. Graham, chairman and chief executive officer of The Washington Post Company, in a statement. “We are committed to great magazine journalism, and I hope Foreign Policy will also become one more center of innovation that helps us expand our journalism in the online arena.” link

Although Moises Naim, current FP editor and publisher, adds somewhat hopefully given the current economic climate and general misery in print media,

“In an era in which too many newspapers and magazines are retreating from international news, The Washington Post Company is smartly bucking the trend.” link

“Whether it was Boston or Bombay, this is how (Danny) would meet people. He would jam with people and he would make friends. And that’s what we’re trying to do with FODfest,” said Mack, who befriended Pearl through music in Atlanta in 1991. “I’d say that the only difference between the role journalism played in his life and the role music played in his life is that he didn’t earn his living from music,” said Mack. link

The Kurt Schork Newsroom. In a retrofitted space in the basement of the collegeâ€s library, now sits a multimedia newsroom of the future paid for by Schorkâ€s friends and family, with an adjacent TV studio funded by Dakota Central Telecommunications. link

The LA Times blog reports that Bruce Wallace, Tokyo bureau chief for the Los Angeles paper, is to head the foreign desk with immediate effect,

Bruce was based in Japan, but during the last four years he has been a kinetic firefighter, parachuting from hotspot to hotspot. He made two lengthy trips to Iraq, embedding with Marines and a British Army unit. He has reported from Afghanistan, including Kandahar in the violent south. In 2006, he joined our coverage of the Israeli-Hezbollah war in Lebanon. In Asia, he reported from India, Pakistan and North Korea. link

Interestingly for a newspaper in these dire financial times, the LA Times holds onto an impresive array of foreign correspondents across the world – including our own Deborah Bonello in Mexico City. However, given the economic state of the newspaper and the general demise of news in the States I’m not sure how long the LA Times map of foreign correspondents will remain as well populated as it currently is.

“She will still travel all over the world, but she will based in Washington instead of London,” said Sean McManus, the president of CBS News. “She will still periodically cover the war in Iraq, and she will still cover international stories.” link

Speaking on The Daily Show last week Logan lambasted the mainstream press in the US for its coverage, or lack thereof, of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,

“I would like there to be more coverage of the wars,” she said. “Iâ€d like there to be more money to have a bureau in Afghanistan as well as in Iraq. Iâ€d like to see Zimbabwe on the air. Thatâ€s part of what my job is, to fight for those things.” link

For more on the move, and other news on Logan…, go to The Huffington Post.

“Look, heâ€s an untraditional war correspondent the way a lot of us are,” said Mr. Glanz, who was a science writer before leaving for Baghdad four years ago. “Heâ€s coming from a different background and point of view from everyone else there. And right now, we can use some fresh ideas and perspectives.” link

The New York Observer says Robertson will start working in Baghdad from the beginning of July when panto season starts when “the story is falling from the front page”.