Jim Lehrer, longtime host of the nightly PBS “NewsHour” whose serious, sober demeanor made him the choice to moderate 11 presidential debates between 1988 and 2012, has died, PBS said Thursday. He was 85.
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An American photojournalist kidnapped during Syria’s civil war accused an overseas bank of funding his captors in a federal lawsuit filed Monday evening.
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The opening of a trial where a politically connected Slovakian businessman stands accused of ordering the murder of a young investigative journalist in 2018 is shining more light on the entanglement of politics and corruption in Europe.
Read moreA Los Angeles judge denied a freelance reporter organization’s request to block a new law that will hamper the livelihood of contractors in California.
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A former foreign correspondent for “60 Minutes” claims in a $25 million defamation lawsuit that she lost her job on the CBS news show because New York magazine published a hit piece about her story on the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi.
Read moreWhat began with a youth football league’s fundraiser gone bad led to the Tennessee Supreme Court deciding on Thursday the fair report privilege – the privilege protecting journalists reporting on what is said during official government proceedings from defamation claims – doesn’t extend to journalists reporting on what officials tell them in one-on-one interviews.
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An investigation into the car-bomb killing of a Maltese anti-corruption journalist has led to the arrest of the prime minister’s former chief of staff.
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A federal judge on Friday ordered Iran to pay $179 million in damages to Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian, who spent 544 days in an Iranian prison after being falsely accused of being an American spy.
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A prominent and politically connected Maltese businessman was arrested Wednesday morning in connection with the murder of an anti-corruption journalist in 2017, sending shockwaves across the small island nation and prompting demands for its prime minister to resign.
Read moreThe mystery of who was behind the murder of a Maltese anti-corruption journalist may be closer to being solved after a suspected middleman in her killing was arrested last week.
Read moreA Dutch journalist was released from jail Friday after being held in contempt of court for refusing to answer questions about a source.
Read moreA district attorney declined Thursday to criminally charge the speaker of the Texas House over a secret recording that revealed he offered a conservative activist press credentials in exchange for attacks on fellow Republican lawmakers he deemed too moderate.
Read moreThe European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that denying journalists access to centers for asylum seekers violates their right to freedom of expression.
Read moreOne of the most notable changes between President Donald Trump’s press conference capping off the U.N. General Assembly last year and the one that took place on Wednesday can be distilled to a short, otherwise banal sentence.
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A Wisconsin-based conservative think tank claims in a federal lawsuit that Democratic Governor Tony Evers has barred its reporters from press events, favoring journalists from left-wing news outlets instead.
Read moreThe public will soon learn what information San Francisco police used to seize a reporter’s phone records in violation of California’s journalist shield law after an 11-page warrant was ordered unsealed Thursday.
Read moreThe Wisconsin Court of Appeals upheld Wednesday an order requiring a lawmaker to provide electronic copies of emails requested under the state’s open-records law instead of giving only hard copies to the journalist who asked for them.
Read moreThe union representing San Francisco police officers demanded Saturday that its chief resign, accusing him of blaming officers for raids that he ordered to determine who leaked a police report to a freelance journalist.
Read moreThe San Francisco police chief said Tuesday that he respects the news media, but a freelance journalist whose home and office were raided by officers had “crossed the line” by joining a conspiracy to steal a confidential report.
Read moreThe Fourth Circuit on Friday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a former CBS News investigative reporter claiming she was spied on by the Obama administration.
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