Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno on Friday confirmed that three press workers kidnapped along the conflictive border with Colombia had been killed, opening the door to a military strike against their captors.
Read moreJournalists kidnapped a week ago along Ecuador’s increasingly conflictive border with Colombia have appeared in a video appealing to Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno.
Read moreThe ongoing saga of the seminal opening to Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” played out in the Ninth Circuit on Monday, with a former music journalist complaining a jury wasn’t allowed to listen to the recording of a song that was supposed to have influenced Zeppelin’s rock epic.
Read moreAn Istanbul court released two prominent journalists from Turkey’s oldest up-market newspaper Cumhuriyet on Friday, hours after the country’s Supreme Court recommended the paper’s former editor-in-chief face an espionage charge.
Read moreOrganized crime may have been involved in the shooting death of an investigative journalist in Slovakia, a Canadian reporter said Tuesday as the country’s newspapers printed black-and-white front pages to honor the slain journalist.
Read moreA journalist arrested and jailed for 13 hours after covering street protests arising from the 2011 shooting of a black man sued St. Louis and several officers, claiming they pepper-sprayed and assaulted him even though he did nothing wrong and clearly identified himself as a member of the press.
Read moreA Slovak investigative reporter and his girlfriend were shot dead in their home in an attack likely linked to his reporting, which was focused on tax evasion, Slovakia’s top police officer said Monday.
Read moreIn a turbulent morning for the Turkish press, one court in Istanbul condemned six journalists to life in prison Friday while another ordered the release of a reporter who has spent the past year jailed without a charge.
Read moreGerman Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel called for a fair and speedy trial for a German-Turkish journalist, who marks one year in a Turkish prison on Wednesday. His call comes amid indications by Turkey’s prime minister that there may soon be movement in the high-profile case that has become a major irritant in the two countries’ relations.
Read moreAfter 14 years, lawsuits accusing former “private investigator to the stars” Anthony Pellicano of illegally wiretapping celebrities and Hollywood A-listers are all but over.
Read moreInventor Peter Madsen was charged Tuesday with killing Swedish journalist Kim Wall during a trip on his private submarine, with prosecutors saying he either cut her throat or strangled her before dismembering her body and dumping it into the sea.
Read moreA court in Azerbaijan has sentenced an investigative journalist to six years in prison in the case criticized by human rights groups.
Read moreA court in Myanmar extended the detention of two Reuters journalists on Wednesday and set their trial for Jan. 10 on charges of violating state secrets.
Read moreA total of 65 journalists and media workers were killed in 2017, the lowest toll in 14 years, according to figures released on Tuesday by Reporters Without Borders.
Read moreA Turkish court on Monday ordered German journalist Mesale Tolu and five of her co-defendants released from prison pending the outcome of their trial on terror-related charges.
Read moreA news photographer who was shot in the stomach after a deputy mistook his camera for a gun filed an excessive-force lawsuit that also claims city officials have retaliated against his news outlet by withholding information since the incident.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit declined Friday to reinstate defamation claims against journalist James Risen brought by a man who claimed his technology could decipher anticipated al-Qaida attacks embedded in Al-Jazeera broadcasts.
Read moreA federal appeals court heard arguments Monday in a case that developed after an FBI agent pretended to be an Associated Press journalist as part of an investigation into bomb threats at a high school in Washington state.
Read moreEuropol, the European Union’s police agency, has sent a team of organized crime experts to help Maltese police investigate the assassination of a prominent investigative journalist, a spokesman said Friday.
Read moreA well-known journalist for Russia’s leading news radio station was stabbed in the throat Monday by an unknown attacker who burst into her studio — the latest in a string of attacks on journalists or opposition activists in Moscow.
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