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BOSTON (Reuters) - A veteran Boston Globe reporter has been suspended for plagiarizing parts of a football column from another publication, the newspaper said on Tuesday in the latest incident to embarrass the U.S. media. The Globe, which is owned by The New York Times Co., said it suspended sports writer Ron Borges for two months without pay because of a "football notes" column that ran on March...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the mistreatment of Sudanese cameraman Sami Al-Haj of the pan-Arab TV station Al-Jazeera by the US authorities at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre after he began a hunger strike on 7 January on completing his fifth year in US custody without trial. “Al-Haj has been held by the Americans for five years without being charged, in disgraceful conditions and...

At first, Ann Coulter's anti-gay crack at a Washington conference Friday drew almost no media coverage, although it was witnessed by hundreds of journalists and political operatives and captured by television cameras. But after some Democrats and liberal bloggers slammed the professional provocateur -- and were joined by a number of Republicans and conservatives -- it became a news story, albeit a...

The "social journalism" that made Oprah Winfrey an international fairy godmother is the new rage in network and cable news, and it's expanding to other media. Increasingly, journalists and talk-show hosts want to "own" a niche issue or problem, find ways to solve it and be associated with making this world a better place, as Winfrey has done with obesity, literacy and, most recently, education by...

Reporters Without Borders has learned of the death of two journalists in Baghdad, bringing to 152 the number of media personnel murdered in Iraq since the start of the conflict in March 2003. A journalist has also been kidnapped in the northern town of Kirkuk. Mohan Hussein al-Dhahr, 49, editor of the daily al-Mishrak, was killed in a botched kidnap outside his home in the al-Jami’a district in...

KANSAS CITY, Mo.: Two newspapers have asked an appeals court to overturn a judge's ruling that forced the papers to remove articles about an area utility from their Web sites and temporarily barred the papers from publishing the story. Lawyers for The Kansas City Star, a daily, and The Pitch, a weekly, filed their motion on Monday, saying Friday's order by Jackson County Circuit Judge Kelly...

Kathmandu, March 6 A unique initiative in Nepal is dying for lack of funds. The Bhutan Reporter is one of the most uncommon media ventures in South Asia. It's a monthly paper brought out by Bhutanese refugees who have been struggling to survive for nearly two decades in seven camps in eastern Nepal. The monthly, a source of sustenance for the over 100,000 refugees and their only voice, is produced...

The newsprint industry is going through a world-wide churn with different trends taking hold in different parts of the world. These trends largely mirror that of the newspaper industry, where Asia is experiencing a new golden age whereas North America and western Europe are at saturation levels. Newsprint capacity in North America has declined from 13.6 million tonnes in 2004 to 12.6 MT in 2006...

US soldiers destroyed images taken by Afghan journalists covering the aftermath of a suicide bomb attack and shooting in eastern Afghanistan Sunday. They were warned not to publish or air any images of US troops or a car where three Afghans were shot to death, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Afghan men shouts anti-American slogans after a car bomber attacked an American convoy in Barayekab in...

Jordan has endorsed controversial press and publication legislations that would slap heavy fines and prison terms on journalists for violations including slander and religious defamation. Journalists can now be convicted of defaming religions protected under the constitution or offending religious prophets in writing or in drawings. A general view shows the cameras Jordanian photographers hung...