The story of a journalist for the AP has finally got a bit of good news. An Iraqi judicial panel has dismissed all criminal allegations from Bilal Hussein and ordered his release after a detainment of two years and one day with the U.S. military.
The Federal Appeals Court has granted Hussein amnesty on the allegations [...]
Cambodian-born journalist Dith Pran died Sunday morning of pancreatic cancer according to his close friend and associate Sydney Schanberg. The two were colleagues at The New York Times since 1975 when their lives became the basis of “The Killing Fields.”
In 1975 Dith was working as an interpreter and assistant to Sydney Schanberg in Phnom Penh. [...]
The last reporters in Tibet have been forced to leave the powder keg country by the Chinese. With the dismissal of the last remaining journalists the only news leaving the region will be that is provided by the Chinese government.
The Tibetans use of the Internet is now heavily restricted and the radio reports in the [...]
A reporter for state run Channel One, Ilyas Shurpayev was found with stab wounds and a belt around his neck in his Moscow apartment. A fire had been started in the unit to possibly cover up the murder scene.
Russian prosecutors have opened a murder investigation for this case. There is no motive for the [...]
Journalist John McWethy died from injuries in a ski accident at the age of 61 on Thursday. The former ABC News chief national security correspondent was at the Keystone Ski Resort when he lost control slamming into a tree.
McWethy was being treated for blunt force injuries when he expired at Summit Medical Center.
Recently retired McWethy [...]
CNN’s Ben Wederman is stuck at the Erez crossing between Israel and Gaza because his bullet proof jacket has suspicious particles on it. That is the only reason that the reporter has been given.
Wederman had to give over his cell phone number after initially refusing. Security has been asking about his connections in Gaza and [...]
Hong Kong reporter Ching Cheong has been released from his Chinese jail cell. He was arrested in April 2005 and the following year was sentenced to five years in jail for spying for Taiwan. Ching has never waived on stating his innocence.
As Ching gets to walk free another reporter enters into a jail cell. A [...]
Pervez Kambaksh has been sentenced to death for reading about women’s rights
Journalist Pervez Kambaksh has been sentenced to death. The 23 year old downloaded information about women’s rights in Afghanistan. That act pegged him for death under the laws of blasphemy.
Kambaksh was accused of the crime after he downloaded a report from a Farsi [...]
Gayle Guyardo has long been a favorite anchor for the WFLA-TV in Tampa Bay, Florida. On Saturday she was briefly removed from coverage of the yearly Gasparilla parade after complaints about her slurred speech from viewers.
Some have claimed that the slurred speech and comments that seemed disoriented came from a bottle. Guyardo is angry. She’s [...]
Radio commentator Fernando “Batman” Lintuan was gunned down in Davao City, Philippines on Christmas Eve. He was in a car with fellow broadcasters Louie Ceniza and Edgar Banzon when a motorcycle-riding gunman shot him in the head this morning at 10 a.m
Lintuan was known for his commentaries that were against politicians in the wrong. He [...]
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