Ethics and Freedom

Sudanese authorities have lifted the ban on independent Arabic daily Al-Sudani imposed on it after the newspaper violated a decree not to report on the case of a murdered journalist, Reuters has reported. The Al- Sudani newspaper, one of the leading dailies in Sudan, has had many problems with the authorities. Erwa's paper was closed down in Sudan under emergency law in 1994. It reopened last year...

A dispute between The New York Times and the Pentagon over publication of a photo of a wounded soldier in Iraq, who later died, highlights how poorly many of the rules regarding embedded journalists in Iraq are structured and enforced, veteran embeds said Thursday. "This is something that has gone on for some time and has caused problems in the past," said James Crawley, a Media General military...

NEW YORK: In early January, a U.S. edition of The Epoch Times published a list of what its editors considered the Top 10 news stories of 2006. Not surprisingly, the war in Iraq was first. The second story, however, was less predictable: "China's Human Rights Movement Grows." The subject may not have made other news organizations' Top 10 lists, but The Epoch Times is not a typical media outlet. It...

NEW YORK (AP) — News reporters frequently complain that their work isn't getting the attention it deserves, but CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan took the extra step. She wrote to friends and family members asking for their help in getting her report on street fighting in Baghdad on the air. She never, the network said Wednesday, intended to make the plea public. But eventually it...

The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the indefinite closure today of an independent Sudanese daily for publishing an article about the beheading of an editor last September. A state prosecutor imposed an immediate ban on the prominent Arabic-language Al-Sudani which carried an article on January 31 discussing the murder of Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, editor-in-chief of the private daily...

The Associated Press has repeated its call for the US military to charge or release one of its freelance photographers whose been jailed in Iraq without charge since April last year. The news wire service said yesterday that Bilal Hussein is accused of being a “security threat” though it stressed no evidence has been produced to substantiate the claim since he was arrested 10 months ago. An...

The Associated Press has repeated its call for the US military to charge or release one of its freelance photographers whose been jailed in Iraq without charge since April last year. The news wire service said yesterday that Bilal Hussein is accused of being a “security threat” though it stressed no evidence has been produced to substantiate the claim since he was arrested 10 months ago. An...

LONDON (Reuters) - A senior journalist on the country's biggest-selling newspaper hacked into the mobile telephones of members of the royal household "several hundred" times, a London court heard on Friday. The News of the World's royal affairs editor Clive Goodman listened to voice mail messages left for the press secretary of heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles and also for two officials who...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The perjury trial of former White House official Lewis "Scooter" Libby begins on Tuesday, but the investigation has already laid bare the Bush administration's internal workings and damaged the independence of the news media. Vice President Dick Cheney is among the prominent government officials and journalists expected to testify in a case that will examine the White House...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - An editor of a Danish newspaper that published the controversial prophet Muhammad cartoons said Wednesday he expects the debate about self-censorship in the media and artists' fear of offending Islam to continue for years. The Jyllands-Posten daily in 2005 published 12 drawings - one of them showing Muhammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse. Another...