An American newspaper says one of its journalists was detained and then expelled from China’s Inner Mongolia region while covering tensions over a new policy that reduces the use of the Mongolian language in education.
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Attorneys for the man who killed five people in a siege of the Capital Gazette’s Maryland newsroom fought Thursday to limit evidence from a psychiatrist who is ready to testify about the gunman’s mental state without having ever interviewed him.
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The French satirical paper whose staff was decimated in a violent attack by Islamic extremists in 2015 is reprinting caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed cited by the killers, declaring “history cannot be rewritten nor erased.”
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California newspapers struggling through the pandemic and ensuing recession will have extra time to comply with a new labor law forcing the industry to transform its workforce under a bill approved by lawmakers Monday.
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Moving to buoy independent and minority-owned outlets toiling through a precipitous pandemic-induced advertising dollar shortage, California lawmakers on Thursday advanced legislation intended to save newspaper jobs.
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Lawyers are scheduled to argue about whether a psychologist’s observations about a man who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper should be heard by jurors who will decide whether he’s criminally responsible because of his mental health.
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In the wake of a partial leak of body-camera footage of George Floyd’s arrest and death to a British tabloid, a coalition of media outlets argued Tuesday for a full release of the footage by a Minnesota judge.
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A survey released Tuesday shows Americans’ trust of the news media is declining even though they still see the institution as invaluable to democracy, indicating growing skepticism toward what many see as journalists straying from objectivity in the internet age.
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Americans who get their news from social media are less informed and less engaged than those who use other outlets, the Pew Research Center found in Thursday study.
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Large businesses and organizations that oppose taking action on climate change are being given an outsize opportunity to spread their message in the news media in what amounts to a failure of traditional both-sides journalism to accurately portray the climate debate, a new study finds.
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Amber Heard on Monday claimed that her ex-husband Johnny Depp threatened to kill her on a number of occasions, as she took the stand for the first time in the Hollywood star’s high-profile London libel action.
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A #MeToo activist said in a court document released Friday that she was “misquoted and misused” by a British tabloid newspaper in an article that accused Johnny Depp of physically abusing his ex-wife, Amber Heard.
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Amber Heard’s former personal assistant claimed Wednesday that she told the model-actress about a violent sexual assault she had endured, only for Heard to “twist” the story for her own use.
Read moreHedge fund Chatham Asset Management plans to buy newspaper publisher McClatchy out of bankruptcy, ending 163 years of family control.
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The Duchess of Sussex asked a British court Thursday to prevent a newspaper from publishing the names of five friends who defended her while speaking to an American magazine under the shield of anonymity.
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A newspaper carrier was improperly classified as an independent contractor by the Hearst Communications media company, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Read moreChina on Tuesday threatened to retaliate against new U.S. restrictions on Chinese state media, escalating tensions between the two superpowers as they crack down on each other’s news outlets.
Read moreThe Associated Press and major newspapers sued Florida in Leon County Court for refusing to release records on Covid-19 deaths in long-term care facilities.
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In a scathing report recounting his complaints about individual media outlets and journalists, calls for changes to libel laws and prosecution of leakers, a journalism advocacy group on Thursday said President Donald Trump’s treatment of the press has eroded public trust in the media.
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The Florida governor’s office on Monday pushed back against claims that it exerted back-door pressure on the Miami Herald’s counsel to withdraw from the newspaper’s planned public records lawsuit over unreleased coronavirus data.
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