BAGHDAD, Iraq – The Christian Science Monitor has launched a campaign on Iraqi television stations, hoping to win the release of reporter Jill Carroll who was kidnapped in Iraq two months ago.

The newspaper’s videotaped message appeared on the private Sharqiya television yesterday afternoon, a day after it was first broadcast by state-run Iraqiya-TV, according to the Monitor.

Ms. Carroll, a freelance writer for the paper, was kidnapped on January 7, in Baghdad’s western Adl neighborhood while going to interview Sunni Arab politician Adnan al-Dulaimi. Her translator was killed in the attack about 300 yards from Mr. al-Dulaimi’s office.

The Monitor’s Arabic-language plea for Ms. Carroll’s release begins with a line of print that reads: “Please help with the release of journalist Jill Carroll.”

Pictures of the reporter then appear on the screen, including one that shows her in an Islamic veil.

A narrator says: “Kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll loves Iraq, and now she needs your help. Time has come for Jill Carroll to return home safely.”

The campaign coincided with the two-month anniversary of her kidnapping and was an attempt, the newspaper said, to put her face widely in front of the Iraqi people.

“We’re doing this to keep Jill in the minds of the Iraqi public, so that if people were to see her they would know who she is and could help her,” the Monitor’s Washington bureau chief, David Cook, said.

Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabr has said Ms. Carroll was abducted by the Islamic Army in Iraq, the insurgent group that freed two French journalists in 2004 after four months in captivity.

Mr. Jabr also said he believed the 28-year-old reporter was still alive. The deadline set by her captors for America to meet their demands expired late last month.

Three videotapes of Ms. Carroll delivered by her kidnappers to Arab satellite television stations identified the group holding her as the previously unknown Revenge Brigades.