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Death threats, physical assaults and 32 lawsuits - this is what freelance journalist Lúcio Flávio Pinto has faced as a result of the one-man battle he is waging in the northern Brazilian city of Belém, capital of Pará state, the main gateway to the Amazon jungle. "I feel like Prometheus," says Pinto, who has published the "Jornal Pessoal" (Personal Journal) in Belém every two weeks since 1987...

A journalist won't have to hand over notes from his interviews with accused murderer Robert Baltovich for the man's second trial this fall. A judge denied a request by the Crown on Thursday for access to Derek Finkle's notes on Baltovich, who will be re-tried for the 1990 murder of Elizabeth Bain. Baltovich was convicted in 1992 of the second-degree murder of 22-year-old Bain, who vanished in east...

News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch said any deal with Dow Jones & Co. would likely be resolved in the next two or three weeks, or “not at all.” “Everything is done. We are just waiting for a final approval of the Bancroft family,” Mr. Murdoch told Reuters during a visit to Warsaw. “The final approval is in the next two, three weeks’ time or not at all,” he added. Although the...

Unionized Wall Street Journal reporters didn’t show up for work Thursday morning to protest Rupert Murdoch’s bid for the Journal’s parent company, as well as Dow Jones & Co.’s proposals for a new labour contract. The half-day walkout, which lasted until 2 p.m. ET, had very high participation by members of the Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees, which represents all Journal reporters...

If Rupert Murdoch succeeds in buying Dow Jones & Co., he would be able to hire and fire top editors of The Wall Street Journal under the editorial independence agreement reached with the company, The New York Times reported Thursday. “That is a far cry from the demands made by the Bancroft family, owners of a controlling interest in Dow Jones, and it remains to be seen how the Bancrofts — most of...

Three more Iraqi journalists have been killed in the past two weeks, delayed reports have said. They bring the number of media workers killed in Iraq since the start of the year to 36, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). One of the many victims of a bombing in Al-Khalis (55 km north of Baghdad) on June 11 was Aref Ali Falih, 32, who had been the correspondent of the independent news...

NEW YORK — News Corp. (NWS) CEO Rupert Murdoch holds most of the cards when it comes to his $5 billion offer for Dow Jones (DJ). But the bargaining continues, and he still may need to use his skills of persuasion if he succeeds in acquiring the parent of The Wall Street Journal. After a deal, Murdoch would nominate top editors. But hiring and firing decisions would have to be approved by a five...

Good salaries combined with the social prestige that comes with being part of a booming industry have made media courses some of the most sought after in the Indian capital today. Admission seekers are thronging the over 100 government and private institutes offering undergraduate and post-graduate degrees and diplomas that are seen as the first steps to striking it big in journalism. A 20 percent...

June 27, 2007 · A judge earlier this month disposed of a case brought by a group of journalists who sued the FBI after being attacked by agents while covering the agency's search of an apartment in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Chief U.S. District Judge Jose Antonio Fuste in San Juan granted the FBI's motion for summary judgment, finding that the agents were protected by a qualified immunity that...

NEW YORK: An amateur video posted on a Pennsylvania newspaper's Web site, showing strippers performing lap dances at a golf course, was apparently too adult for the Associated Press, which chose not to distribute the images. The Morning Call of Allentown, Pa. reported that AP officials decided the minute-long clip of the X-rated behavior at a Stroud Township, Pa. golf course was too hot to handle...