Ethics and Freedom

A grand jury in the US is investigating the source of a leak that led to the public unmasking of a CIA agent in 2003. The leak formed part of the wide-ranging controversy about the US administration's justification for the invasion of Iraq in 2003. It sparked a major political row in 2003 that has refused to subside. The BBC News website looks at key issues in the case. What is the grand jury...

New York, September 30, 2005–The Committee to Protect Journalists is relieved that New York Times reporter Judith Miller has been freed after spending 85 days in a U.S. prison for refusing to disclose a confidential source. But CPJ is deeply troubled by the long-term damage that the federal prosecutor’s investigation has had on the free flow of information, and the message sent worldwide by...

Reporters Without Borders today hailed the release yesterday of New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who had been in prison since 6 July for refusing to reveal a source, but the organisation regretted that, in order to obtain her freedom, she has been forced to violate the principle that journalists’ sources are confidential. "Miller’s release is obviously good news in itself, but she recovered...

Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter jailed since July 6 for refusing to testify in the CIA leak case, was released from a Virginia detention centre on Thursday after she and her lawyers reached an agreement with a federal prosecutor to testify before a grand jury investigating the matter. Miller was freed after spending more than 12 weeks in jail, during which she refused to cooperate with...

The government threat to journalistic privilege is now as great as it has been since the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press began its annual Homefront Confidential report six years ago. The report, which studies how the war on terrorism has affected access to information, rates several categories according to a scale that mimics the color-coded threat level of the Department of Homeland...

NEW DELHI, August 29: There are different ways in that different people ask journalists to behave themselves. The last fortnight saw a surfeit of that. The first was a salvo – from Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy. Since the recalcitrant Maoists stopped smoking the peace pipe with him, Reddy has been one beleaguered man. And having come a cropper to make the agrarian Naxalite...

HYDERABAD: The media should strive to project an Indian view of the world. Indian media houses should invest to build their network abroad as an alternative to dependence on foreign news agencies for content and pictures, said Dr Sanjaya Baru, media advisor to the Prime Minister. Delivering the Prof S Bashiruddin Memorial Lecture at the Administrative Staff College of India here on Friday, he...

LUCKNOW: Do Lucknow journalists deserve the repeated knocking which they keep getting every now and then from the powers-that-be? A straight-forward and honest answer perhaps is yes. If they bite the bait, somebody will certainly pull the line. Journalism in the state capital stands out as the only private sector job which promises allotment of a government house. The estate department of the...

HYDERABAD, SEPT. 22. The Chief Minister, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, on Wednesday called upon journalists to write about issues in a dispassionate manner, rising above denominational considerations and always keeping in mind, betterment of the society. Inaugurating the year-long Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Osmania University Department of Communication and Journalism here, Dr. Reddy narrated...

Stating that India was at a historical juncture, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday said the media had a crucial role in tackling and guiding the process to create a modern society built on a rapidly growing economy. Inaugurating the silver jubilee celebrations of Telugu daily Prajashakti, a mouthpiece of CPI-M and a national seminar on "press and the nation" here, he said media had enormous...