Journalists
UK law reform: Journalists face up to 14 years jail for embarrassing the Government
Under plans to amend the Official Secrets Act, journalists may risk jail sentences of up to 14 years if they publish articles that embarrass the government. Reporters who handle leaked information will not have a defense if accused under new rules meant to crack down on foreign agents, according to a ...
Twitter censors journalists for commenting on Pensacola shooter’s motivations
After the shooting in a classroom at Pensacola Naval Air Force Base, Florida, several journalists who reported on the event received a sanction from the social network Twitter. The sanction that ended up disabling the accounts of Andy Ngo, general editor of The Post Millennial, Fox News anchor Pete Hegseth and ...
Journalists accuse Syrian government forces of targeting reporters
According to Committee to Protect Journalists, a number of reporters have been injured by suspected pro-government forces in recent days
Prominent columnist in Turkey is released from prison
A prominent Turkish journalist sent back to prison Wednesday in connection with convictions for terror charges handed last year to an opposition newspaper was released hours later.Kadri Gursel tweeted Wednesday evening that he was released from an Istanbul prison. He had turned himself in earlier that day to serve out ...
Report criticizes probe into slaying of Malta journalist
A Council of Europe report has criticized the "glacial" pace of the investigation into the car bomb assassination of a leading Maltese investigative journalist and called Wednesday for an independent public inquiry into the case.Three Maltese men are believed to have triggered the powerful car bomb that killed 53-year-old Daphne ...
Pulitzer board honors Parkland journalists
The students submitted their work honoring classmates and staff killed in a shooting last year
Pulitzer board to honor Parkland journalists
The students submitted their work honoring classmates and staff killed in a shooting last year
San Francisco police chief sorry for raid on journalist
Facing a growing public outcry, San Francisco's police chief apologized on Friday, May 25, for raiding a freelance journalist's home and office to find out who leaked a police report in the unexpected death of the city's public defender. Chief William Scott told the San Francisco Chronicle the searches were probably ...
San Francisco police chief ‘sorry’ for raid on journalist
San Francisco's police chief is apologizing for raiding a freelance journalist's home and office to find out who leaked a police report into the unexpected death of the city's former public defender.Chief William Scott told the San Francisco Chronicle on Friday the searches were probably illegal and said "I'm sorry ...
San Francisco police chief: Journalist ‘crossed the line’
The San Francisco police chief said Tuesday that he respects the news media, but a freelance journalist whose home and office were raided by officers had "crossed the line" by joining a conspiracy to steal a confidential report. Chief William Scott addressed reporters hours after police agreed in court to return ...
Turkish opposition journalist hospitalized following attack
A journalist critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government and its nationalist allies has been hospitalized after being attacked outside his home.The Yenicag newspaper says Saturday that columnist Yavuz Selim Demirag was beaten up by about five or six people with baseball bats after appearing on a TV show Friday.The ...
Prominent Russian journalist and critic of Putin dies at 59
A prominent Russian journalist whose TV reports changed between acclaiming President Vladimir Putin to scathing criticism has died. He was 59.The Govorit Moskva radio station said on Friday that its editor-in-chief, Sergei Dorenko, died of internal bleeding after an aorta rupture. Earlier, media reports said Dorenko lost consciousness while riding ...
UN office hails Myanmar journalists’ release, with a caveat
The U.N. human rights office is praising the release of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo from prison in Myanmar, but says a "very dire situation" remains for freedom of expression in the Asian country.Rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani hailed "good news" but insisted that the two Pulitzer ...
Myanmar frees 2 imprisoned Reuters reporters
Two Reuters journalists who were imprisoned for breaking Myanmar's Official Secrets Act over reporting on security forces' abuses of Rohingya Muslims were pardoned and released Tuesday, the prison chief and witnesses said.Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were freed after President Win Myint issued a blanket pardon for 6,520 prisoners, ...
Ethiopia cautiously embraces new era of press freedom
This story originated in the Amharic service. Salem Solomon contributed to the story. ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — Ethiopia’s historic strides toward democracy and openness have given journalists in the
Reports: Iran’s intel agents detain journalist arrested at May Day rally
Colleagues of Marzieh Amiri at Iran’s Shargh Daily have tweeted that she was arrested at Wednesday’s May Day rally outside parliament in Tehran and sent to Evin Prison’s Ward 209
Uganda targets journalists on World Press Freedom Day
As World Press Freedom Day was celebrated on Friday, television and radio stations in Uganda were being targeted over coverage of an opposition figure's appearance in court.Journalists have protested the ordered suspension of news leaders at 13 stations over what the Uganda Communications Commission called "repeated breach of minimum broadcasting ...
Kenya drops in press freedom index, but remains haven for journalists
The country’s press might not be ranked completely free, but for journalists from the region it provides a relatively safe base for their work
Journalists behind prison bars in Cambodia
The heat was unbearable. Even now, on the outside, Cambodian journalist Yeang Sothearin is reminded of it every time the temperature rises: the stifling overcrowded cell at Prey Sar prison, where he
Journalist’s murder spurs bid to unblock NIreland politics
Britain and Ireland are making a new push to restore Northern Ireland's collapsed government, amid mounting criticism of politicians following the murder of a journalist by a banned militant group.The two governments are expected to make an announcement Friday about talks to revive the power-sharing administration, which has been suspended ...

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