NEW Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark has lashed out at an investigative journalist who unveiled damaging scandals against her ministers, calling him a "creep". Mrs Clark's attorney-general David Parker resigned from all his portfolios this week after journalist Ian Wishart revealed Mr Parker had filed false declarations to the Companies Office. Wishart's Investigate Magazine also published fresh...
In his last issue as the editor of Harper's Magazine, Lewis Lapham has left a parting gift for his successor: a firestorm in the media and among AIDS researchers. The source is a 15-page article in the March issue, titled "Out of Control: AIDS and the Corruption of Medical Science," by Celia Farber. Ms. Farber, a longtime magazine journalist, has been a polarizing figure because she has frequently...
NEW YORK The Village Voice suspended one of its editors after he admitted fabricating material for this week's cover story, a look at "The Secret Society of Pickup Artists." The weekly alternative newspaper published an editor's note on its Web site Wednesday night announcing the suspension of senior associate editor Nick Sylvester. In an article about the effect that Neil Strauss's book, "The...
A presentation by two Lakeview High School students trying to warn classmates about the dangers of putting personal information on the Internet led to their teacher being escorted from the St. Clair Shores building because administrators thought pictures used in the project were too risque. The segment, roughly eight minutes, that was broadcast to the entire school Tuesday on its in-house TV...
LONDON (Reuters) - A reporter for the Daily Mirror has been arrested after he tried to get a job in Buckingham Palace, the newspaper said on Wednesday. The 25-year-old journalist was detained by officers from the Metropolitan Police's Royal Protection Unit last Friday after background checks were made on his identity. "He was arrested having applied for a job at Buckingham Palace after checks...
LONDON: Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper lost its libel appeal against maverick politician George Galloway yesterday over a story saying he had been "in the pay" of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. A High Court ruling in December 2004 ordered the paper to pay Galloway 150,000 pounds (US$267,200) for the accusation, which the politician had always denied. Had the Telegraph succeeded in its...
CHICAGO Police in Palm Beach, Florida have found the body of a 22-year-old man on the estate of former newspaper mogul Conrad Black. Authorities found no sign of foul play. The man, identified as Emmanuel Issac, appeared to have set up a camp near the property's beach access tunnel. The body was found Friday by Black's property manager. A spokesman says Black was not at the estate that day. Black...
(Thai Press Reports Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)Section: General News - Fired 'Bangkok Post' editor says cousin of top TRT figure fed him information; sues for Bt13m damages and return of job, The Nation reports. A former Bangkok Post news editor on December 20 named a cousin of a government figure as the anonymous source who had told him in August about dangerous cracks in the runways at...
THE fantasy land of Narnia, the subject of C. S. Lewis' stories and a just-released film, impinged on last week's World Trade Organisation talks. A story issued by financial news agency AFX on Sunday, picked up by several other outlets, has left a series of red faces by faithfully reporting a press release from "the independent state of Narnia". The story claimed Narnia had walked out of the World...
Two former Daily Mirror journalists were warned yesterday that they face imprisonment over their attempts to manipulate the stock market through their City Slicker newspaper column. Southwark Crown Court heard how James Hipwell and Anil Bhoyrul conspired with a third man, private investor Terry Shepherd, to make thousands of pounds by ramping up the price of shares. Bhoyrul, 38, had pleaded guilty...
