2005-2014

The Tunisian government's continuing clampdown on human rights defenders and its intolerance of domestic critics has made a mockery of the UN-sponsored international summit being held in Tunis this week, Amnesty International has said. SOLIDARITY: Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi (left) talks to Tunisian human rights activists who have been on a hunger strike since October 18 to...

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 17 (Bernama) -- Many news agencies of countries in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) have failed to function effectively in disseminating news and information, let alone compete with international news agencies, a journalism professor said Thursday. Prof. Dr Mohd Safar Hasim, who chairs Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia's Centre of Media and Communication Studies, cited the economic...

NEW YORK -- The newspaper business is getting smaller. On Wednesday, five newspapers owned by Tribune Co. announced job cuts, but they're hardly alone. In recent weeks, no fewer than nine other well-known newspapers all announced cuts in payrolls or other expenses. What's happening? Here are some questions and answers about the challenges facing the U.S. newspaper business. Q. I keep hearing about...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge found Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus in civil contempt on Wednesday for refusing to disclose names of sources in the case of Wen Ho Lee, the former Los Alamos nuclear scientist once suspected of espionage. Ruling in the latest defeat for reporters in the courts, U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer imposed a fine of $500 a day until Pincus complies...

Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan boycotted a planned press conference with his Danish counterpart on Tuesday in protest over the presence of a journalist he said was linked to Kurdish separatist guerrillas, according to a Reuters report. Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen stands next to an empty lectern Tuesday November 15, 2005 during what was to be a joint press conference with

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bob Woodward's name is synonymous with anonymous sources, ''Deep Throat'' and reporting that uncovered a scandal that brought down a presidency. Some three decades after Watergate, the outing of Woodward in the CIA leak investigation underscores the change in anonymous sourcing and revives the criticism of the media's use of unnamed officials to curry favor. Woodward's career...

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney is not the unidentified source who told Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward about the CIA status of the wife of Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson, a person familiar with the investigation said Thursday. Woodward did not talk with the vice president that day, did not provide the information that's been reported in Woodward's notes and has not had...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Bob Woodward's version of when and where he learned the identity of a CIA operative contradicts a special prosecutor's contention that Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide was the first to make the disclosure to reporters. Attorneys for the aide, I. Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby, described Wednesday's statement by the Washington Post's assistant managing editor as helpful for their...

Yahoo Inc has unveiled a deal to distribute media, gadgets, and political gossip blogs from Gawker Media. Yahoo will post "dozens" of stories per day from blogs including New York-media gossip blog Gawker, US political gossip-focused Wonkette, Hollywood insider's guide Defamer and popular technology blog Gizmodo. "Launching on Yahoo News with stories from five of Gawker Media's most well-known...

Bob Woodward apologized to The Washington Post yesterday for failing to reveal for more than two years that a senior Bush administration official had told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame, even as an investigation of who disclosed her identity mushroomed into a national scandal. Woodward, an assistant managing editor and best-selling author, said he told Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr...