Several members of the news media, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter, argued before the Sixth Circuit on Thursday in hopes of reviving their constitutional claims against the Ohio Department of Correction, which blocked interviews with inmates involved in the 1993 Lucasville prison riot for over 20 years.
Read moreA lawyer representing a Nashville TV station filed court papers agreeing with a coalition of national news outlets urging the Tennessee Supreme Court to overturn a precedent that could punish journalists in the Volunteer State for reporting truthful information.
Read moreAmerican celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain has been found dead in his hotel room in France while working on his CNN series on culinary traditions around the world. He was 61.
Read moreThe Denver Post editor who called out the hedge fund owners’ reckless management resigned this week.
Read moreOn the heels of more than two dozen women making further accusations of sexual harassment against Charlie Rose, one current and two former CBS News employees sued the anchor and his former network Friday.
Read moreThe same day Reporters Without Borders slammed Turkey’s anti-press “witch hunt,” an Istanbul court sentenced more than a dozen celebrated reporters from the country’s oldest serious newspaper to heavy jail terms.
Read moreEcuador’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.
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