IS Claims Beheading Of Journalist, Warns U.S. On Iraq Strikes
Baghdad (AFP) – Jihadists released a video apparently showing the beheading of an American journalist kidnapped in Syria, in the most direct retaliation yet to nearly two weeks of U.S. air strikes on Iraq. As calls mounted for Washington to expand its military intervention against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, it also threatened to […]
Egypt Sentences Three Al Jazeera Journalists To Seven To Ten Years In Prison
By Amro Hassan and Laura King, Los Angeles Times CAIRO — An Egyptian judge on Monday sentenced three journalists for the Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera to between seven and 10 years in prison on terrorism-related charges, stunning their supporters and raising an immediate outcry from human rights advocates. The harsh sentence came only a day after […]
Chinese Dissident, In TV Shaming, Apologizes For Spilling Secrets
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times BEIJING — One of China’s most venerable dissident journalists was paraded on state television Thursday morning, apologizing for spilling state secrets that embarrassed the Chinese Communist Party. The public shaming of Gao Yu, a 70-year-old grandmother who had written widely about the pro-democracy protests at Tiananmen Square, was perhaps the […]
Two Journalists Shot In Afghanistan, One Fatally
By Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan police officer shot two Western journalists on Friday, killing one and seriously wounding the other as they waited in a convoy of poll workers on the eve of Afghanistan’s closely watched presidential election. The Associated Press said a veteran photographer, Anja Niedringhaus, 48, was killed […]
Top US Military Official: Pakistan “Sanctioned” Killing of Journalist
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pakistani government “sanctioned” the killing of a journalist last month, a top U.S. military official said Thursday, but he said he could not tie the death to the country’s powerful intelligence service. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the beating death of the Pakistani reporter, Saleem […]
Celebrated Journalist Comes Out as Undocumented Immigrant
Jose Antonio Vargas dropped a bombshell on the political and media worlds this morning when he acknowledged publicly that he is an illegal immigrant. The journalist has done work for The New Yorker and The Washington Post, amongst other publications, and this week began a campaign to redefine what it means to be American. His […]