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WASHINGTON -- Columnist and author Art Buchwald, who for over four decades chronicled the life and times of Washington with an infectious wit and endeared himself to many with his never-say-die battle with failing kidneys, is dead at 81. Buchwald's son, Joel, who was with his father, disclosed the satirist's death, saying he had passed away quietly at his home late Wednesday with his family...

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- When one of Atlanta's most notorious criminals held journalist Don O'Briant at gunpoint, the incident changed his life. Brian Nichols had just killed three people that March morning at a downtown Atlanta courthouse where he was to be retried for rape and false imprisonment, police say. The 33-year-old was looking for another getaway car when he came across O'Briant, who...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 — One of the two men convicted of murdering a retired reporter for The New York Times was sentenced today to 26 years in prison. Michael C. Hamlin, who was 24 when he was arrested, had faced up to 60 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder, robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery late last year. He was tried for his part in the death of the reporter, David...

London: In a rare distinction, Dr Chitra Bharucha, an Indian-born haematologist, took charge as the acting Chairperson of the British Broadcasting Corporation, becoming the first woman and first Asian to head the giant organisation. Incidentally, the BBC Trust, of which Bharucha is the acting Chairperson, took over the responsibility of running the organisation from BBC Board of Governors from...

PANJIM, DEC 19—Sonia Faleiro of Tehelka newspaper has been honoured with the second prize print/online category by CNN channel for her story on farmers’ suicides in Vidarbha.. The award for the print/online category went to Rohit Vishwanath of Businessworld magazine from Mumbai for his story ‘Shop Floor Jobs Are Hot Once Again’ which dealt on how engineering graduates are now looking for shop...

CNN, one of the world's leading news channels, gave awards to Indian journalists who with their outstanding stories and reporting capability have created an impact on society. The award - CNN Young Journalist (CNN YJA) - which was instituted in 2003 this year saw the entry of two new categories - CNN Aspiring Journalist Award and CNN Citizen Journalist Award. "India is full of talent and in events...

PARIS: Reporters Without Borders awarded its top media freedom prizes Tuesday to a journalists from Myanmar and Cuba, a Russian newspaper and an association of reporters from Congo. The Paris-based media advocacy group issues the annual prizes jointly with the Fondation de France, a private foundation. The awards go to a journalist, a media outlet, a defender of press freedoms and a "cyber...

Mike Allen, a reporter who covers the White House for Time magazine, and Roger Simon, the chief political correspondent for Bloomberg News, are joining the new multimedia political news venture being overseen by two former Washington Post journalists. That new enterprise now has a name — The Politico, which is its newspaper, and thepolitico.com, its Web site. The name supplants The Capitol Leader...

Since 1975, Worldpress.org has presented the International Editor of the Year Award to an editor or editors outside the United States whose work best exemplifies the principles of journalism. In recognition of enterprise, courage and leadership in advancing the freedom and responsibility of the press, enhancing human rights and fostering excellence in journalism, our 2005-2006 choice honors three...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - The news media may be in decline in the West but it's boom time in India where journalists are hopscotching from one job to another, picking up fatter pay checks on the way. Indian media managers say they are scrambling to recruit staff amid a rush of new publications and television stations. Talk among journalists of 40 to 50 percent pay hikes for switching jobs is becoming the...