Controversies & Scandals

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...

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...

British broadcaster ITV News has been censured by watchdog Ofcom over a report about Prime Minister Tony Blair’s decision to go to war in Iraq. The report, broadcast in March last year, had reported that the Prime Minister had said his belief in God played an important part in deciding to go to war, the Independent reported. ITV News host Michael Parkinson (back to camera) listens to Blair. Based...

SYDNEY - In a cut-throat world, some Australian reporters will go to extreme lengths for a story -- even if it means helping chain an 84-year-old woman to her nursing home room. A Channel Seven television reporter has been suspended after his stunt was broadcast nationwide on Tuesday night. Reporter Nicholas Boot's story led the network's Today Tonight show, and featured Shirley Frey chained to a...

The deputy editor of the settler newspaper Nekuda, Hayuta Deutsch, has been fired in the wake of ideological differences with editor Motti Karpel. According to sources at the paper, Karpel, who in the past was among the Jewish Leadership group headed by Moshe Feiglin, is giving Nekuda more of a messianic and less of a right-wing political hue, as the paper had been characterized until now. Nekuda...

Mumbai: Police have arrested a freelance journalist for allegedly sending obscene phone messages to aspiring actress and dancer Nandini Jumani. Police in Oshiwada in western suburban Mumbai said Flynn Remedios, a freelance journalist, was arrested for sending vulgar text messages to actress Jumani, popularly known as "Krazy Kat". "We have arrested Remedios under section 345 of the Indian Penal...

Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian court sentenced an Australian journalist to 10 months' jail after he pleaded guilty to changing price tags on clothes that he bought at a shopping centre in the capital Kuala Lumpur city, news reports said Friday. However, John Leslie Lefevre was allowed to walk free as the judge ordered his jail sentence to run from the date of his arrest on March 29 last year. Lefevre...

An Asahi Shimbun photographer who was found to have plagiarized from a Yomiuri Shimbun article has also plagiarized from another article in the Yomiuri and yet another from a local newspaper in Niigata, the Asahi announced Tuesday. The Asahi said it would fire the photographer, Toshimichi Niwa, 46, who belonged to its photograph center. He was transferred to its Tokyo headquarters' administrative...

AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Jordanian authorities have arrested a local journalist for assaulting a policeman, who is also incarcerated for hitting the reporter. The prosecution Tuesday refused to grant bail for Khaled al-Khawaja, a reporter for Jordan's mass-circulation al-Rai daily, which has the largest distribution in the kingdom and is partially owned by the government. The journalist was...

Chandigarh, January 27: Chandigarh-Punjab Union of Journalists (CPUJ) has sought an apology from Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh for the incident related to the dismissal of a reporter from the vernacular press at the alleged behest of his media adviser B I S Chahal on Friday. The members of CPUJ, during their executive meeting held here today, have decided to protest by wearing...