2005-2014

AFC Bournemouth boss Kevin Bond is suing the BBC for a massive amount of compensation after he lost his job with Newcastle as a result of the Panorama bungs programme shown last September. He is suing the BBC for more than £300,000 over the Panorama affair. Bond claims that the BBC's reporting in the Panorama Bungs programme led to him being sacked from Newcastle. The 41-page writ issued at the...

Sahar al-Haideri, an Iraqi journalist, had received 13 death threats before she was murdered in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul last week. Her killing brings to 106 the number of journalists, almost all Iraqi, murdered in the country since the US invasion in 2003 along with 39 support staff. Mrs al-Haideri, a 45-year- old mother of three who worked as a freelancer for many publications, knew she...

A new parliamentary bill to amend the Freedom of Information Act is due to be introduced under the Ten Minute Rule in the House of commons tomorrow. Tom Brake MP is set to introduce the Freedom of Information (Amendment) (No2) Bill, which would remove ministers’ power to veto decisions of the information commissioner. His Private Members’ Bill will also limit the time by which public authorities...

Gannett's USA Today and ABC News will share stories and resources for the 2008 elections. USA Today will give ABCNEWS.com political stories and blog updates for its Website. ABC will give USA Today election coverage video for its Website. The two will also collaborate on political stories. Election coverage pages on both media outlets' Websites will also be co-branded, the companies said in a...

LAHORE, June 11: The South Asian Media Commission (SAMC) has raised an alarm at death threats to Farida Nekzad, vice-president of South Asia Media Commission and a senior Afghan journalist, only days after the killing of two women media-persons. “This is very disturbing that after the killing of two Afghan women journalists in the past two weeks, some unknown people are sending out death threats...

KHANEWAL, June 11: Journalists and lawyers on Monday took out a joint protest procession against registration of a false case against six journalists of Makhdoompur Pahoran Town and torture on them at Kohna police station. The procession, participated in by a large number of journalists from all four tehsils of the district and office bearers of District Bar Association (DBA), Khanewal, started...

NEW YORK - On a winter day when bomb blasts at an Iraqi university killed dozens and the United Nations estimated that 34,000 civilians in Iraq had died in 2006, MSNBC spent nearly nine minutes on the stories during the 1 p.m. hour. A CNN correspondent in Iraq did a three-minute report about the bombings. Neither story merited a mention on Fox News Channel that hour. That wasn't unusual. Fox spent...

Ethiopia's High Court today convicted four editors and three publishers of now-defunct weeklies of anti-state charges linked to their coverage of the government’s handling of disputed parliamentary elections in 2005, according to local journalists. Two of the editors were convicted of charges carrying life imprisonment or death. The journalists were arrested after a massive government crackdown on...

A jailed Chinese reporter accused of leaking state secrets has joined a U.S. lawsuit claiming Yahoo Inc. helped the Chinese government convict dissidents, his mother said Sunday. Shi Tao, who was sentenced in 2005 to 10 years in prison, is seeking compensation from the Sunnyvale, California-based Internet company, claiming Yahoo Hong Kong and Yahoo China provided information to the Chinese...

TASHKENT. June 11 (Interfax) - Criminal charges have been dropped in Uzbekistan against journalists cooperating with Deutsche Welle radio, a source at the Tashkent city prosecutor's office told Interfax on Monday. Nadezhda Bushuyeva, Yury Chernogayev, Saiera Ruzykulova and Obid Shabanov who had worked for Deutsche Welle without accreditation were charged with large-scale tax evasion and unlicensed...