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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Information ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) agreed on Tuesday to establish the NAM News Network (NNN) to replace the inactive Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool (NANAP). Malaysia's proposal of setting up the NNN has won the support of delegates attending the Sixth Conference of the Ministers of Information of Non-Aligned Countries, Malaysian Information...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward said Monday he kept his conversation with a Bush administration official about the identity of a CIA operative secret for two years because "I was trying to avoid being subpoenaed." Woodward said on CNN's "Larry King Live" he also didn't tell his boss, executive editor Leonard Downie Jr., about the source, a decision he called a mistake....

WASHINGTON – Bob Woodward said Monday 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 Washington Post assistant managing editor and best-selling author, detailed the events that led him to apologize to Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. for not...

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...