CNN has fired a senior editor for Mideast news after she published a Twitter message that said she respected the late Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, branded a terrorist by the US, American and UK media said Thursday. Grand Ayatollah Fadlallah, one of Shiite Islam’s highest religious authorities and an early mentor of Hizbullah, died in Beirut Sunday. The Guardian reported: [ Link] The...
Bradley Manning, a 22-year-old US army intelligence analyst, was charged on Tuesday with leaking a video of a US army helicopter attack in Baghdad in July 2007 in which two employees of the Reuters news agency were killed. Currently held in a US military detention centre in Kuwait, he is accused of divulging confidential information, a US army release said. Posted on the Wikileaks website on April...
The US military has banned four reporters from different Canadian and US-based media outlets to cover military commission proceedings in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The reporters were banned after each named a US Army interrogator after being told to keep him and other participants in the proceedings anonymous. The proceedings were about the...
The man found who killed an Ottawa broadcaster in 1995 will appear in a Buffalo court this morning after a U.S. border officer was punched in the face. Officials of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Jeffrey Arenburg, 50, of Barrie, was on a bus crossing the border at the Peace Bridge on Thursday when the incident occurred. Arenburg, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, was found not...
Aboard the crowded D train, rumbling into Brooklyn on the Manhattan Bridge, the inevitable rant explodes. A rant courtesy of Faye Anderson, whom we'll call Ms CJ, a k a Citizen Journalist. A rant directed at us, Mr MSM, a k a Mainstream Media, for all our perceived faults. "It's not you, the journalist, it's the institution," Ms CJ tells Mr MSM. "You're not telling the whole story. ... You've lost...
Agence France-Presse (AFP) has bought a 30 per cent stake in the citizen journalism platform Scooplive, which will be renamed Citizenside. AFP has stated that it will not take part in editorial decisions on the site, which allows users to publish and sell films and photos for commission. According to a press statement from the agency, it is hoped the investment will allow AFP to 'get closer to...
NEW YORK - The New York Times, feeling the squeeze affecting newspapers everywhere, said Wednesday it would eliminate about a dozen support staff jobs from its newsroom. Executive editor Bill Keller told Times employees in an e-mail message that the job cuts were the first to affect the paper's newsroom "in recent memory," but would not involve laying off any reporters. Keller said the paper would...
McLEAN, Va. — USA Today, the highest circulation newspaper in the country and the flagship of industry leader Gannett Co., announced plans today to eliminate about 45 newsroom jobs. The job losses reflect a cut of almost 9 percent to a current newsroom staff of about 500, USA Today spokeswoman Alexandra Nicholson said. They will be scattered throughout news, money, sports and lifestyle sections...
NEW YORK (AP) — As the Hollywood writers strike enters a second week, advertisers are worrying it could seriously disrupt the TV schedule — and the number of eyeballs viewing their ads — in coming months. So far, the strike has forced only late-night talk and comedy shows into reruns, since their material must be freshly scripted every day. But when marquee shows like "The Office," "Desperate...
The Guardian today launched its US website with an exclusive interview with presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The site, Guardianamerica.com, has been designed for the Guardian's growing US audience, which now accounts for nearly a third of Guardian Unlimited's readership. In the latest audited ABCe figures for August, Guardian Unlimited had 15.9 million unique users, of which the company...
