2005-2014

WASHINGTON -- Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward dismissed claims that he should have revealed his role in the CIA leak case when he discussed the investigation on news interview shows. Woodward said on CNN's "Larry King Live" Monday night: "Every time somebody appears on your show talking about the news or giving some sort of analysis, there are going to be things that they can't talk about."...

The leak of former CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity continues to spread through the Washington press corps like a toxic plume. As it does, it discredits individual reporters and damages both their news organizations and an entire style of reporting that has come to dominate the way Americans are informed - or misinformed - concerning their government's conduct. Last week's casualty was the...

Liberals may be pleased that New York Times reporter Judy Miller left prison to testify about Scooter Libby. She wasn't protecting a whistleblower after all, but a man engaged in a whisper campaign to silence a whistleblower. It was a "bad" leak, liberals argue. Testifying might jail media Machiavellis like Mr. Libby and Karl Rove. So it was right this once for a reporter to give up a confidential...

Harper's Magazine and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel have been named winners of the 2005 John B Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism. The judges cited Erik Reece, author of "Death of a Mountain" in Harper's Magazine and Dan Egan, a reporter for The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for "Troubled Waters, the Great Invasion" and honoured their works for the "exceptional contribution to...

Bertrand Eveno announced that for personal reasons he would relinquish his post as CEO of Agence France Presse (AFP) by the end of 2005 at the latest. His resignation announcement came before a staff vote of no confidence in AFP's management was confirmed. The no confidence vote is seen as a response to the management's decision to hand over to the police photographs of protestors beating a...

DOHA, Qatar, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Al Jazeera, which is relentless in reporting U.S. involvement in Iraq and other major stories, has so far been less forthcoming about a legal dispute involving its own Web site. An Al-Jazeera executive told United Press International Saturday the case is ongoing, but confirmed the story so far leaves two news Web sites with the same domain name -- and only one belongs...

NEW YORK: Next to feel the knife in the current round of Tribune Co. job cuts -- which in recent days have already hit papers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Orlando and Hartford -- will be Newsday in Melville, N.Y. A memo written Friday by Publisher Timothy P. Knight and posted today at the Romenesko Web site at www.poynter.org saves the worst for last, revealing that "as we move through the...

BUTWAL, Nov 20 - A fierce debate ensued between local journalists and a team of Press Council currently in Butwal, monitoring the code of conduct for journalists, on Sunday. Local journalists criticized the council's chairman Mathabar Singh Basnet's remark that the government was forced to introduce new media ordinance due to difficult situation in the country. Basnet in his speech had said that...

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 (Bernama) -- Malaysia needs to convince some of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries of the importance of the establishment of the NAM News Network (NNN), a unified news pool, if it wants to avoid the fate of previous initiatives, an Iranian cabinet minister said Monday. Iranian Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Mohammad Hossein Saffar Harandi said that earlier...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will start the ball rolling on the proposed Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) News Network (NNN) by organising a workshop within the next three months. Information Ministry secretary-general Datuk Siti Balkish Mohamed Shariff said that interested NAM members would be invited for the discussions to find ways to establish a practical and workable mechanism for the NNN. "The most...