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HATTIESBURG — The seizure of tape recordings by marshals from reporters from The Associated Press and the Hattiesburg American during a 2004 speech by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia broke no laws, according to U.S. Marshals Service’s initial investigation. “Based on the information he had available, U.S. Marshals Service General Counsel also reviewed the allegations and determined that there...

Journalist Leopoldo Castillo appeared Thursday in the Attorney General Office as he was summoned in connection with an investigation into claims made by Minister of Communication and Information William Lara that local TV news channel Globovisión, and particularly Castillo's talk show Aló, Cuidadano (Hello, Citizen) were encouraging the assassination of President Hugo Chávez. Upon his arrival in...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has learned that Chalva Ramishvili, one of the co-founders of the independent TV station 202, has not received a presidential pardon, unlike his partner, 202 managing editor David Kokhreidze. The two journalists were convicted on flimsy evidence in March 2006 of extorting money from a parliamentarian. Ramishvili was sentenced to four years in prison...

KINSHASA (AFP) - Serge Maheshe, a Congolese journalist working for the UN-sponsored Radio Okapi, was shot dead late Wednesday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Bukavu, the radio station said. The station's editor in chief Yves Renard told AFP: "One of our journalists, Serge Maheshe, was killed this evening at 9 pm (1900 GMT) in Bukavu." Maheshe, 31, was killed on the street while...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday it is reorganizing its editing ranks to integrate print and online news operations as well as simplify its international news structure. The changes will deal with what the newspaper called "profound changes sweeping the news business." The Journal is owned by Dow Jones & Co. Inc., whose controlling family is considering whether to...

New York, June 13, 2007— The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the shooting of a Mexican journalist who had received death threats in connection with his investigation of the slaying of a U.S. journalist during violent street protests last fall in the southern city of Oaxaca. Misael Sánchez Sarmiento, a reporter for the Oaxaca-based daily Tiempo, was shot twice Tuesday evening by an...

ISLAMABAD, June 13 (APP): Speaker National Assembly Chaudhry Amir Hussain said on Wednesday that matter relating to restriction on entry of a senior journalist in the Parliament House will soon be resolved amicably. Responding to a point of order, the Speaker said that the press has a very important role especially in the press gallery of the parliament. The Speaker said he wanted to resolve this...

Two trainee journalists have been honoured for their reporting skills while studying at De Montfort University in Leicester. Scott McPherson won the Leicester Mercury District Reporter of the Year award, while Oliver Wright won the Johnston Press "one to watch" award. Both completed a postgraduate course in journalism at De Montfort University earlier this year. Students had to cover a patch of...

A legislator is discovered to have $90,000 in alleged bribe money hidden in his home freezer. In the United States, the government prosecutes, courts rule, someone goes to jail and the news media report every step of the process. Typically around Latin America, the government doesn't prosecute, because part of a politician's job is to steal and get rich in office. The courts look the other way...

Bulgaria's Interior ministry launched Wednesday a campaign for prevention and fight of EU funds embezzlements, initiated together with local journalists. Minister Rumen Petkov gave the go-ahead of the campaign together with the head of the "Journalists against corruption" club Reneta Nikolova. The initiative includes a video clip and a brochure with telephone numbers and e-mails for corruption...