Two Dutch reporters have been ordered to appear in a German court this week, following a complaint from a 90-year-old convicted Nazi war criminal who claims that the journalists violated his privacy by using a hidden camera to record an interview with him.
Despite working directly with Nevada's Republican party, Google trailed the Associated Press by a couple of hours Saturday night. At one point, AP had results from 41.3 percent of precincts, while Google had just 18.7 percent.
In a filthy Ethiopian prison that is overridden with lice, fleas and huge rats, two Swedes are serving an 11-year prison sentence for committing journalism.
The author, who runs the "Photography is Not a Crime" blog, describes what happened last week and posts what is left of his video after police arrested him and deleted some of his footage.
At Thomson Reuters, journalists have been encouraged to create "buzz" by promoting stories on social media, but what happened last month can’t be what management had in mind. The day Reuters became a hashtag on Twitter, it also became punchline.
The editor of J-School Buzz, a blog covering the Missouri School of Journalism, was forced to resign recently because she's also on the staff of the journalism school’s newspaper, the Missourian. Students charge that the policy is a violation of the First Amendment.
Bills loosening restrictions on media access to prisoners have been vetoed eight times by three California governors, but the latest version stands a chance to become law.
The owners of Philadelphia’s two largest newspapers, both Guild-represented, have hired an investment banker to shop the papers less than two years after creditors took control of the of them.
House Republicans directed Capitol Hill police Wednesday to detain a documentary crew that was attempting to film a hearing on a controversial natural gas procurement practice. Republicans also denied the entrance of a credentialed ABC News news team that was attempting to film the event.
Reader comments at the Washington Post website have shot up 142 percent since the paper switched to the Echo platform in March 2011, and Post staffers are getting more personally involved. Jon DeNunzio, the Post's interactivity editor says, “In recent weeks we have had more than 40 reporters post in comment streams, and that number will continue to grow.”
