The imprisonment of Guatemalan investigative journalist José Rubén Zamora was found to be “arbitrary” and in violation of international law by a human rights body investigating cases of deprivation of liberty at the United Nations. In a decision made public on Monday, the United Nations’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded that Zamora’s arrest on […]
Michael Corcoran, prominent Austin music journalist and historian, has died. He was 68. Family members confirmed Monday afternoon that he was found deceased in his Buda residence. An autopsy has been scheduled to discover the cause of death. Corcoran, who wrote in a sometimes gruff, inimitable manner for the American-Statesman, Austin Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, […]
The morning anchor for Peoria’s CBS and Fox affiliates is leaving the stations, with plans to take a job in Wisconsin. Kyreon Lee said last week that she would be leaving WMBD and WYZZ, where she has served as morning anchor for the past three years. In a Facebook post, she said that the decision […]
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has gone on trial on espionage charges in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, 15 months after he was initially arrested there. The 32-year-old appeared in a glass cage in the courtroom for a behind-closed-doors hearing on Wednesday morning, with his head shaven clean and wearing a black-and-blue plaid shirt. […]
A journalist who was shot in the eye by Minneapolis police while covering the 2020 protests following the murder of George Floyd has entered hospice care due to her injury, signalling that she is dying from her wounds. Linda Tirado, 42, “is at life’s end and receiving palliative care”, the National Press Club said in […]
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has raised with China’s Premier Li Qiang an incident at parliament house where Chinese officials tried to obstruct a journalist previously jailed in Beijing, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Tuesday. Li’s visit to Australia from June 15-18 was the first by a Chinese […]
Cheng Lei, who was imprisoned in China for three years, sits at a diplomatic event in Canberra on Monday [EPA] Chinese officials appear to have blocked a formerly imprisoned journalist from the view of cameras at an event between Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra. Cheng Lei, who was […]
Tampa Bay Times reporter Tracey McManus was awarded the Lucy Morgan Award for Open Government Reporting on Saturday while two other Times reporters were named finalists. The award is given by the First Amendment Foundation, an open records and free speech nonprofit, and is named after the Pulitzer Prize-winning Times journalist who died in September […]
BEIJING (AP) — Supporters say a a Chinese journalist who promoted women’s rights as part of the country’s nascent #MeToo movement has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of incitement to subvert state authority, almost three years after she and an activist were detained. The verdict provided to The Associated Press stated […]
A prominent female #MeToo activist in China has been handed a five-year jail sentence for “subversion against the state”. Sophia Huang Xueqin was convicted and sentenced on Friday, nearly 10 months after she went on trial. Labour activist Wang Jianbing, who stood trial with Ms Huang, was sentenced to three years and six months in […]
A Palestinian journalist and his family held three Israeli hostages captive in their home in the Gaza Strip until their rescue on Saturday morning, the Israeli Defense Forces said on Sunday. “Following the completion of IDF and ISA examinations of reports on the subject, it can be confirmed that Abdallah Aljamal was an operative in […]
Al-Jazeera’s Jerusalem bureau chief Omar al-Walid has denied claims made by Israel’s military that journalist Abdullah Al-Jamal worked for the outlet and held Israeli hostages in his home. In a statement, al-Walid said, “This man is not from Al-Jazeera, and he did not work for Al-Jazeera at all, and he is not listed as working […]