2005-2014

RABAT – The public prosecution at the Court of First Instance in Casablanca has announced the opening of an investigation against a Spanish-language Moroccan weekly newspaper for carrying an article regarded as an affront to the royal regime and territorial unity. The official Moroccan News Agency, quoting a judicial source, said that the public prosecutor at the Court of First Instance in...

Kathmandu, Jan 9 (PTI) Police in an eastern Nepal district have allegedly grilled a journalist with a leading English-language daily to reveal the source of a report he had filed and threatened him with "trouble" if he failed to do so. A Deputy Superintendent of Police yesterday pressurised 'The Kathmandu Post' reporter Benupraj Bhattarai to reveal the source of his news story, which said a group...

NBC, the television business channel, has linked the financial markets of the US, Europe and Asia in the first integrated global programme. Worldwide Exchange, broadcast simultaneously to three continents, has anchors and chief executives talking to each other in New York, London and Singapore. Until now the small delays involved in bouncing the signals up to satellites have been seen as too...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed alarm at the failure of the Pakistani authorities to respond to inquiries about the fate of journalist Hayatullah Khan more than a month after he was seized by unidentified gunmen in the North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan. WHO DUNNIT AGAIN: Pakistani tribal elders attend Jirga or a traditional meeting with government

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the arrest on criminal defamation charges of Cambodian journalist and human rights activist Pa Guon Tieng. The police arrested Pa and two of his associates on January 4 while they were reporting in northeastern Stung Treng province, the Cambodia Center for Human Rights (CCHR) said. Pa produces a popular call-in radio programme for CCHR

Gunmen kidnapped a female American journalist and killed her Iraqi translator Saturday in western Baghdad, according to agencies. An Interior Ministry spokesman said the translator told police before he died that the abduction took place when he and the journalist were heading to meet Adnan al-Dulaimi, head of the Sunni Arab Iraqi Accordance Front, in the Adel neighborhood of the city. The gunmen...

US forces arrested an award-winning Iraqi journalist after raiding his Baghdad home and opening fire in the bedroom where he was sleeping with his wife and children, the Guardian reported on Monday. Dr Ali Fadhil works for the Guardian and Britain’s Channel 4. SUSPECT IN U.S. EYES: Ali Fadhil, who two months ago won the Foreign Press Association young journalist of the year award, was hooded and...

Tim Mulherin of Indianapolis was one of the many readers I heard from Wednesday morning. He and others let me know how disappointed they were at The Star's having printed the wrong information regarding the fate of 13 coal miners in West Virginia. The Star wasn't alone in reporting that 12 of the 13 miners had been found alive. Newspapers, most in the East Coast time zone, that were caught in the...

My folks grew up in a town whose fortunes rose and fell on coal mining. When I lived in that town, I thought the men had the most exotic-looking eyes. Try as they would in post-work scrub-downs, the miners couldn't remove all the coal dust from their lids and it looked like permanent eyeliner to my 12-year-old mind. I thought of those vivid, black-rimmed eyes this past week, watching and reading...

The relief I felt reading the paper Wednesday morning, with a headline assuring me the miners in West Virginia were safe, evaporated when I reached the newsroom and learned the truth: All but one were dead. The Star Tribune -- along with many other newspapers -- had a story at the top of the front page that was utterly inaccurate. Forty-one readers who felt similarly let down called or e-mailed me...