2005-2014

Nobody outside the Westminster village would recognise the names of David Keogh and Leo O'Connor. One is a former Cabinet Office official, the other a researcher for an MP who lost his seat at the last election. But the crime of which they are accused concerns two men who are firmly in the public eye: Tony Blair and George Bush. On Tuesday, Mr Keogh, 49, the civil servant, and Mr O'Connor, 42, who...

RABAT – For the second time in less than a year, the Moroccan authorities have initiated legal action against the Press. This time it is against a journalist who wrote about the life of princesses in the Moroccan Royal Palace. A report by the official Moroccan News Agency (MNA) said the General Prosecutor of the Casablanca Primary Court had summoned the officials of the independent Arabic Al Ayyam...

(NewsYemen) Nov 26, Sanaa – The Western Capital Secretary Court forwarded today the case filed against Al-Thowri opposition newspaper and its columnist Mohamed Al-Maqaleh to the appeals court of Sanaa. The appeals court is expected to rule on the objection of Al-Thowri and Al-Maqaleh’s lawyer, who said the Western Court does not fall into the geographical zone of the defendants. The defendants’...

Bob Woodward's recent actions bring a whole new meaning to the title, "All the President's Men." The veteran newsman for the Washington Post, who joined with Post reporter Carl Bernstein in investigating the Watergate coverup in the 1970s that brought down former President Richard Nixon, has gone from seeker of truth to concealer of truth. Woodward revealed last week he testified under oath to...

The staff strike at Libération, one of France's leading dailies, may have ended, but with a steadily eroding circulation base and fast decreasing revenues stormier days lie in store for the newspaper. STRIKING MAJORITY: The decision was adopted by 218 employees with just five votes against and 13 abstentions. They agreed to insert a four-page supplement in Saturday's edition of the paper to

An anchor with Russia's last big television station openly critical of President Vladimir Putin has been ordered off the air. REN TV anchor Olga Romanova said on Friday that security guards blocked her way when she arrived for work on Thursday night. SMILES TO GO: Popular anchor Olga Romanova said she has still not been allowed to enter the studio. "The studio has been put under guard. The

Innovation across our industry is gathering pace, ranging from Axel Springer’s extraordinary success in Poland and the new product models in Germany to the free, street extensions in London and, of course, the ever-growing list of free dailies. New product development is at last becoming a common feature of our industry. Of course, there have been many newspaper by-products - supplements, weekly...

LONDON (Reuters) - The British Broadcasting Corporation has upheld a complaint against one of its journalists who said in a radio report she cried when a dying Yasser Arafat was flown from the West Bank in 2004. Barbara Plett made the remark in a dispatch for the "From Our Own Correspondent" programme describing how she felt when a helicopter carrying Arafat, who was gravely ill, took off from his...

Journalists and human rights activists fear freedom of speech is under threat in Kyrgyzstan after a call from country’s new chief prosecutor for a media crackdown. Prosecutor Kambaraly Kongantiev told a meeting of the Kyrgyz Security Council attended by President Kurmanbek Bakiev that the government should move against media outlets "which inflame passions and destabilise the situation in the...

Unidentified gunmen shot at two journalists, seriously injuring one, when they were returning from work in Kohima on November 24. Sources said Xavier Rutsa, senior correspondent with Nagaland Post, and Ato Liezietsu, president of Kohima Press Club, who were on a scooter, were accosted by a group of youths on last Thursday evening. When they did not stop, the miscreants fired at them injuring Rutsa...