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FORT COLLINS, Colorado (CNN) -- The editor-in-chief of Colorado State University's newspaper will keep his job after he published a four-word column that said, "Taser this: F**k Bush." The CSU Board of Student Communications met Thursday for nearly four hours in a closed hearing before deciding to admonish instead of fire Rocky Mountain Collegian editor-in-chief David McSwane. Speaking for the...

CHICAGO: Gonzalo Guillen, a reporter for The Miami Herald's Spanish-language daily El Nuevo Herald, has fled Colombia after President Alvaro Uribe accused him of ghost-writing a book linking the president to the notorious drug dealer Pablo Escobar, a Colombian free-press group said Friday. The Bogota-based Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP for its initials in Spanish) said Guillen had left the...

(M&C) - The BBC journalist who was abducted and held by militants in Gaza City earlier this year is to reveal details of his ordeal in an hour-long Panorama special. Alan Johnston spent 113 days in captivity before being released in on July 4. The documentary, to be shown on October 25, will include questions put to Mr Johnston and interviews with some of those involved in the campaign for his...

A detective sergeant has been charged with leaking information to a journalist in the first case of its kind. Detective Sergeant Robert McNulty, 48, was brought before Dublin District Court this afternoon charged with disclosing details of a Commission of Investigation report into the charging of Dean Lyons, a homeless heroin addict, with two murders he did not commit. Gardaí said that on a date...

RUPERT MURDOCH is set to face a challenge to his family's control of News Corp at its annual shareholder meeting this month, after one of the world's most powerful shareholder advisers recommended fund managers back a move to change the company's share structure. Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), which advises 2000 institutional investors globally with about a quarter of the world's...

Aizawl, Oct 4 (PTI) Mizos have to cope without newspapers for some days as an acute shortage of newsprint is hitting print media houses in Mizoram. Vanglaini, the most circulated vernacular daily in the state, could not be published today as there were no newsprint, said its editor K Sapdanga, who is also the president of the Mizoram Journalists Association. Another popular daily, The Aizawl Post...

LOS ANGELES: ABC News is assigning seven reporters to new overseas posts in what the network division said is its largest expansion of foreign bureaus in two decades. The reporters will be based in New Delhi and Mumbai in India; Seoul, South Korea; Jakarta, Indonesia; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Nairobi, Kenya, and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, ABC News President David Westin announced on...

NEW YORK -- After two decades of cutbacks in international bureaus, ABC News is bucking the trend by creating one-person operations that will dramatically boost its coverage in Africa, India and elsewhere. The small offices, staffed by a reporter-producer with the latest in hand-held digital technology, cost a fraction of what it takes to run a full-time bureau. But the work they file will be...

Google's decision to spend $3.1 billion to buy little-known DoubleClick will affect the future of American media and the way advertisers tell stories about you and me. Eventually, if Google has its way, what we see on the Web, hear on the radio or read in print will largely be based on decisions Google computers make about how different we are and why. Already Google can likely say quite...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The body of a Japanese video journalist who was shot dead during a crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Myanmar was returned home on Thursday, and was due to be taken for an autopsy. The results of the investigation are likely be a factor as Japan weighs whether to take action against military-ruled Myanmar, such as cutting back economic assistance. Kenji Nagai, 50, was shot...