LONDON (Reuters) -Sergei Mingazov, a journalist for the Russian edition of Forbes, has been detained on suspicion of spreading false information about the Russian army, the magazine said on Friday. Konstantin Bubon, Mingazov’s lawyer, said on Facebook that his client was in a detention centre in the far eastern city of Khabarovsk, where he lives. […]
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will remain jailed on espionage charges until at least late June, after a Moscow court on Tuesday rejected his appeal that sought to end his pre-trial detention. The 32-year-old US citizen was detained in late March 2023 while on a reporting trip and has spent more than a year […]
John Brewer, whose coast-to-coast journalism career spanned 50 years, including nearly two decades at The Associated Press, has died. He was 76. Brewer and his longtime friend Randy Johnson were on their annual fly fishing trip in Montana on Friday when the boat Brewer was in hit a submerged log and flipped over, Johnson said. […]
A cranky Donald Trump glared at New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman when he awoke from a courtroom power nap during his trial on Monday and found out that she had already informed the world that he had dozed off. “Mr. Trump appeared to nod off a few times, his mouth going slack and his […]
The Iran International journalist stabbed in London has told the BBC he is “feeling much better”. Pouria Zeraati is now back on screen at the London-based Iranian outlet after the stabbing last month. He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme he was stabbed by two men as he approached his car. Mr Zeraati said he […]
Sweden has expelled a Chinese journalist, saying the reporter was a “threat” to national security, Swedish media has reported. The journalist, an unnamed, 57-year-old woman, was arrested by the Swedish security service in October and expelled by the government in Stockholm last week, Swedish broadcaster SVT reported. She is banned from returning. The woman arrived […]
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a man linked to a Southern California white supremacist group to time served after he admitted to punching a journalist at a pro-Trump rally in 2017. U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney on Thursday sentenced Tyler Laube to time served, totaling 35 days he had spent in pretrial custody. […]
A Moscow court on Friday ordered a Russian journalist who covered the trials of late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny and other dissidents to remain in custody pending an investigation and trial on charges of extremism. Antonina Favorskaya, also identified by court officials as Antonina Kravtsova, was arrested earlier in March. On Friday, Moscow’s Basmanny […]
An Iran International journalist has been stabbed outside his home in London. Pouria Zeraati is in a stable condition after being attacked with a knife on Friday, Iran International said. Police and paramedics were called to an address in south London at 2.49pm after a man in his 30s suffered an injury to his leg, […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A prominent journalist in western Mexico was abducted by armed men and has not been seen since, prosecutors said Tuesday. The fate of radio and television anchor Jaime Barrera gained national attention in part because his daughter, Itzul Barrera, sits on the leadership council of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ‘s […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge held veteran investigative reporter Catherine Herridge in civil contempt on Thursday for refusing to divulge her source for a series of Fox News stories about a Chinese American scientist who was investigated by the FBI but never charged. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington imposed a fine of […]