A detective sergeant has been charged with leaking information to a journalist in the first case of its kind. Detective Sergeant Robert McNulty, 48, was brought before Dublin District Court this afternoon charged with disclosing details of a Commission of Investigation report into the charging of Dean Lyons, a homeless heroin addict, with two murders he did not commit. Gardaí said that on a date...
DUBAI — Editors of leading Arabic and English newspapers in the UAE on Monday signed the Charter of Honour and Code of Ethics underlining their commitment to a responsible media which would ensure credibility, accuracy and unbiased nature of news content. The 26-article document which defines the rules and ethics of the journalistic profession, was drafted following the political leadership’s...
The Press Complaints Commission has made an example of the Wigan Evening Post and Wigan Observer in its first enforcement of the new rules on reporting suicide. The press watchdog found that the local papers in Greater Manchester breached its voluntary code by breaking Clause 5, which covers intrusion into grief or shock and was amended last year to restrict coverage of suicide. The clause now...
NEW YORK: Editor Joe Cannon of the Deseret Morning News in Salt Lake City defended his decision to attend a conservative policy conference this past weekend that barred media coverage, saying the event was a good place to touch base with sources and local leaders. "Would I do it again? I would do it again," said Cannon, who was criticized by the rival Salt Lake Tribune for the appearance. "I would...
HSBC and the China Charity Foundation celebrated a decade of working together in July, bringing in the global bank's chairman and renting a room in the Great Hall of the People. Organisers of the event extended the charity to Chinese reporters: donating Rmb200 (EUR19.33) to each of those who attended, according to people present. Such payments - called "transport money" by public relations firms -...
New Delhi, Oct. 2 (PTI): A city court on Monday remanded a private news channel reporter, arrested in connection with an allegedly fake sting operation against a school teacher, to 14 days judicial custody. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Alok Aggarwal remanded Live India reporter Prakash Singh to judicial custody till October 14, after the Crime Branch submitted that the case was...
State-controlled Sri Lankan television station Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) has sent four of its journalists on compulsory leave after they submitted a letter stating that their professional rights had been disrespected and damaged. According to the Free Media Movement (FMM), SLRC Producers' Union Chairman Kanchana Marasinghe, Organiser Herbert Kumara Alagiyawanna, Athula Peiris and...
ASTANA (Reuters) - A photograph of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in tight swimming trunks triggered outrage in the parliament of the former Soviet state on Wednesday. "For me, he (Nazarbayev) is a God-appointed person," said Bekbolat Tleukhan, member of the pro-Nazarbayev Nur-Otan party that controls every seat in the lower house. "This is not just impolite, it's pure shame. ... It goes...
The Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) decreed on Tuesday that journalists should not be jailed over their work, two days after two were jailed for libel, the state WAM news agency reported. Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed al-Maktoum "has issued instructions ... not to imprison journalists for reasons related to their work," said the head of the National Media Council, Sheikh Abdullah bin...
Egypt's prosecutor general has reversed a decision to send an outspoken tabloid newspaper editor who questioned President Hosni Mubarak's health to the country's emergency court of no appeal. A judiciary official said Friday that Al-Dustour editor Ibrahim Eissa will instead face a regular criminal court where appeals are possible on October 1. The official did not elaborate on the reasons why the...
