A UK-based Arabic newspaper has apologised to the prime minister of Qatar after it admitted printing three "wholly untrue" articles about him secretly visiting Israel, the Guardian has reported. Some details: The daily Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat made the apology to Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani on July 21 at the high court in London after admitting it should not have published the articles in...
A Macedonian journalist suspected raping and killing at least at two women and then reporting on the crimes committed suicide in jail, news reports said Monday, according to Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA). Vlado Tanevski, a correspondent for several newspapers including the Utrinski Vesnik daily, was found drowned in a bucket of water, Macedonian media quoted police as saying. There was no evidence...
South Africa's public broadcaster suspended its chief executive for insubordination barely hours after he meted out the same punishment to the head of news, its board announced Wednesday, according to news reports. Dali Mpofu, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) chief executive officer, has been suspended with immediate effect, the board said in a statement, according to Agence...
Publishing giant Bonnier AB was responsible for delivering a secret complaint to the EU Commission about state support to the press in Sweden, the Local has reported. The revelation was made clear by their reply to the government’s call for comments on a new legislative proposal on the matter. Some details: The analysis of operational support included in the comment is the same as that done in the...
A day before the case of a local journalist allegedly blackmailing a Congress leader in a sex scandal incident comes up for hearing in a local court, the scribe today claimed that he has captured in his camera at least 51 court officials taking bribe, the Indian Express has reported. Amrik Singh alias Prince, a local journalist, showed nine such clippings at a press conference on Sunday. Singh...
A BBC reporter in the UK was pinned to the ground by six policemen and searched under the Terrorism Act after his radio transmitter was mistaken for bomb equipment, says a report in the Telegraph. Max Khan, a correspondent for BBC Radio Stoke, was made to kneel down with his face to the floor in the centre of Hanley, Staffs. Police moved in on Khan after several shoppers raised concerns about an...
The daily Berliner Zeitung has announced that the overwhelming majority of editorial staff has voted to access their official records at the government's archive, after two senior journalists at the newspaper admitted they were former East German secret police, Stasi, informants. On Monday, the left-leaning paper's 50-year-old political editor admitted to having been a Stasi informant for a decade...
A reporter and a correspondent of China Mining News, a newspaper supervised by the Ministry of Land and Resources, were sentenced to seven and six years in jail for taking bribes when covering news in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua has eported. The man, surnamed Liu, 32, a reporter in the Shanxi provincial bureau of China Mining News, was...
The situation at NewsX has taken an ugly turn with journalists alleging assault and I&B ministry referring their complaint about the company's source of funding to finance ministry, the Times of India has reported. Vir Sanghvi, the channel's editorial head, had quit a few days back following "differences" with its chief, Peter Mukerjea. Since then, many recruited by him have quit. Those who did...
A journalist’s claim that 11 of his close relatives were murdered in Iraq last weekend is false. Amman-based Iraqi journalist Dia al-Kawwaz had claimed on November 26 that 11 members of his immediate family were shot by gunmen the previous day in Baghdad. “We are obviously relieved to learn that the Kawwaz family is safe and sound but this journalist’s behaviour is unacceptable,” Reporters sans...
