COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A distinguished University of Missouri-Columbia journalism professor will no longer write a weekly newspaper column after admitting he plagiarized material from a student reporter. John Merrill, a professor emeritus at the university's School of Journalism, wrote a Sunday column for the Columbia Missourian, a community newspaper affiliated with the school. His Nov. 4 column...
WASHINGTON: The offending word is "sonofabitch." Pakistan has expelled three British reporters after a UK daily twice referred the country's military dictator Pervez Musharraf as a "sonofabitch," sparking off a yet another fervent debate about language, stylebook and the limits of editorial expression. The comment, deemed offensive by the Pakistani government, appeared in a November 9 editorial in...
A Swedish woman who squirted water in the prime minister's face in a fake interview for a TV show has been fined 20,000 kronor ($A3,500) for the prank. The Stockholm District Court fined Hanna Wilenius for recklessly pulling the close-up prank on Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, despite the risk of it being misinterpreted as a real attack, Swedish news agency TT reported. She was also ordered to...
New Delhi, Nov 05: Uma Khurana, the teacher who figured in a fake TV sting operation, on Monday filed a criminal case in a court here against `Live India` channel and its CEO and reporter for defaming her by showing her as running an alleged prostitution racket. Khurana in her complaint alleged that the channel`s CEO Sudhir Chaudhary and its reporter Prakash Singh had full knowledge and reason to...
New Delhi (PTI): Prakash Singh, the sacked reporter of a TV news channel and his associate Virender Arora were on Monday granted bail by a court here after the completion of the investigation into the fake sting operation. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Alok Aggarwal released Singh, the 'Live India' reporter and Arora on bail after presenting a personal bond of Rs 50,000 and one surety...
The journalist who interviewed a neo-Nazi for Germany's Vanity Fair filed charges against him. Michel Friedman -- a journalist, attorney and former leader in the German Jewish community -- wanted to interview far-rightist Horst Mahler about his roots as a founding member of the left-extremist Red Army Faction for the trendy magazine. Mahler, 71, who famously underwent a transformation to the...
Mumbai (PTI): A reporter of a website was on Saturday arrested for allegedly sending an e-mail impersonating as Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, a senior police official said. Ashwin Pinto was arrested in the morning from his residence in the Cuffe Parade area of South Mumbai and produced before a local court which remanded him to judicial custody, a senior official in the Cyber Crime...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden: What started with a kiss in a Stockholm bar turned into an embarrassment for the Swedish government Thursday as the prime minister's senior aide stepped down, apologizing for a wine-soaked evening out with a TV journalist. Ulrica Schenstrom, the top civil servant in the office of conservative Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, said in a statement she deeply regretted having...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi police on Tuesday filed the charge sheet against the reporter, Prakash Singh, who had allegedly carried out a fake sting operation in which a female school teacher was purportedly shown to be involved in a prostitution racket. Prakash’s co-accused Virender Arora has also been named in the charge sheet. In the charge sheet filed before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate...
MIAMI (AP) — A television reporter investigating a story on school violence was arrested after carrying a loaded gun onto school property, authorities said. Jeffrey Weinsier of WPLG-TV, an ABC network affiliate, was taken into custody Tuesday at Miami Central High School after ignoring several warnings not to walk on school property, Miami-Dade schools police said. "Kindly go across the street now...
