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Joseph C. Wilson IV, husband of Valerie Plame Wilson, called on The Washington Post last night to investigate the conduct of Bob Woodward, the investigative reporter, in the leaking of Plame Wilson's name to the news media. Woodward admitted last week that a Bush administration official had disclosed Plame Wilson's identity to him more than two years ago. He did not alert his editors or officials...

Bob Woodward said yesterday that he notified his editor at The Washington Post of his involvement in the CIA leak case because he realized he "was going to be dragged into this." In an interview with CNN's Larry King, Woodward, a Post assistant managing editor and best-selling author, detailed the events that led him to apologize to Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. for not notifying him earlier...

Bob Woodward, in a phone conversation of nearly an hour and a half on Sunday, said: "People think I'm hiding something. But what am I hiding? . . . Anyone who looks through that book [his Plan of Attack, published in April 2004], it expands their knowledge. It's the best account of how we went to war with Iraq." He cited a number of examples of tensions and clashes over war policy that were first...

CHICAGO (November 22, 2005) -- A couple of days after Private Capital Management LP (PCM) CEO Bruce Sherman rocked Knight Ridder and the rest of the newspaper industry with a saber-rattling letter demanding the nation's second-largest newspaper company put itself on the auction block, the influential Wall Street Journal "Heard on the Street" column led off with a rather remarkable statement...

LONDON, November 22 (IranMania) - Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad-Hossein Saffar-Harandi said that the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) member states should understand the priority for formation of a media union to counter the hegemony of the developed countries over media system, IRNA said. Speaking to Malaysia's Bernama News Agency on the sidelines of the Conference of Ministers of...

UALA LUMPUR, Nov 22 (Bernama) -- Lesotho hopes that the setting up of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) News Network (NNN), endorsed at the Sixth Conference of Ministers of Information of Non-Aligned Countries (Cominac VI) which concluded here Tuesday, can help boost its economy. "I hope through NNN, NAM countries will share their experiences and expertise in information communication technology (ICT...

Forty of the Britain's most influential journalists over the past 40 years, including 92-year-old former Daily Telegraph editor Bill Deedes and former Guardian editor Peter Preston, have been named by journalists' trade paper Press Gazette in its Newspaper Hall of Fame. Bill Deedes © The Telegraph A veritable roll call of Fleet Street past and present attended a photographic exhibition of the 40...

Kuala Lumpur, Nov 22 (Prensa Latina) The Non Aligned Movement has agreed Tuesday to create the NAM News Network, replacing its news agencies Pool in an effort to help Third World countries spread their information. The decision was taken at the 6th Conference of Ministers of Information of Non Aligned Countries (COMINAC) that closed Tuesday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Representative from 70 nations...

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 22 (Bernama) -- The Sixth Conference of the Ministers of Information of Non-Aligned Countries (Cominac VI) ended here Tuesday with the endorsement of the Malaysia-mooted proposal for the establishment of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) News Network (NNN). The more than 70 ministers who supported the proposal agreed that the NNN would effect a more sustained and efficient flow of...

Non Aligned Movement member countries today unanimously agreed to revitalise their news agencies Pool by replacing it with a new mechanism called the NAM News Network, giving each nation the right and freedom to "tell its own story". Welcoming Malaysia's proposal to replace the Pool with a new mechanism, information ministers and senior officials of over 70 countries said in a declaration at the...