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Suspected September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has confessed to the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl, a central role in 30 other attacks and plots in the US and worldwide that killed thousands of victims, said a revised transcript released Thursday by the US military. Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan in 2002, is pictured in...

Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo abducted by the Taliban in Afghanistan last week has appeared in a video shown on television Wednesday appealing to Premier Romano Prodi to work for his release. TV grab from Euronews shows an image from video footage, received by non govenmental organisation Emergency, of Italian reporter Daniele Mastrogiacomo who was abducted 10 days ago by a Taliban...

NEW YORK -- Online jobs service Monster Worldwide Inc. is working with privately held software company Adicio to supply classified advertising to 250 US newspaper websites, Monster said yesterday . The deal allows Web news outlets to let job seekers and employees list themselves on Monster services. Monster users can buy print advertising with news outlets that use Adicio. It also would let Adicio...

Stockholm- A jailed Swedish-Eritrean journalist was on Wednesday awarded a newly created freedom of speech prize by the Swedish Association of Publicists. As of Wednesday, Dawit Isaak has been imprisoned for 2,000 days in his native Eritrea in east Africa and was unable to attend the award ceremony in the Swedish capital Stockholm. To mark the occasion, the editors of the culture sections of six...

The media across the United States are celebrating Sunshine Week with all smiles. This is because of the freedom of information, which is entrenched in the Constitution of the United States. However, the picture in Africa remains somber and bleak for journalists and independent media. The reporters from the continent have nothing to celebrate. Several decades after most African governments...

Police officer Monzart Castro Brasil, 53, convicted of the murder of a Brazilian journalist, was rearrested by the Brazilian police last February 28. Brazil had been convicted and sentenced in September 2003 for the murder of Manoel Leal de Oliveira, the editor and founder of the daily newspaper "A Região". The murder took place in 1998 in the state of Bahia, in the country's northeast. A popular...

March 14 (Bloomberg) -- Time Warner Inc. agreed to pay $117.7 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the California Public Employees Retirement System over the 2001 merger with AOL. Calpers's 2003 suit alleged accounting irregularities at AOL, the Internet service company that combined with New York-based Time Warner in January 2001. The settlement is Time Warner's fourth this year related to the...

Yahoo Inc. did not violate Hong Kong’s privacy laws when it provided prosecutors with information about a Chinese reporter accused of leaking state secrets, authorities said Wednesday. Shi Tao, a former journalist for the Dangdai Shangbao or Contemporary Business Newspaper in the central province of Hunan, was sentenced last year to 10 years on charges of leaking state secrets. Shi was alleged to...

The Turkish military has been classifying journalists by their perceived attitude toward the military and using that classification to grant or deny press accreditations. Leaked reports published in the Turkish press last week show that the news media is classified according to support for government policies and that the procedures for issuing press accreditation are used to undermine critical...

Masked Palestinian gunmen abducted a BBC correspondent from his car in Gaza City on Monday. As he was being taken away, the journalist threw a business card on the street that identified him as Alan Johnston of BBC, Palestinian security officials said. Alan Johnston was born in Tanzania and educated in Scotland. He joined BBC World Service in 1991 and has spent eight of the last 16 years as a...