British journalist Paul Martin, who was arrested in Gaza by
Hamas authorities on what authorities said was suspicion of
“violating Palestinian law and security in the Gaza strip,” has been released without any charges being
filed.
Howard Kurtz writes in the Washington Post about how the economy is forcing television reporters to be a jack-of-all-trades: a trend that took root in local television is spreading to the pricier precincts of network news as well.
By being the first and, largely, the only publication pursuing the John Edwards infidelity story through his denials of the affair and of fathering a child out of wedlock, The National Enquirer is under consideration for a Pulitzer Prize, and it has strong support for its bid from other...
The public television newscast "Worldfocus" is being canceled. Staffers were informed of the news by Neal Shapiro, President and CEO of WNET.ORG, at 3 p.m. on March 5. The program is the latest victim of a tough economy.
Don McCullin, the acclaimed frontline photojournalist speaks to the Guardian online about the horrors of conflict, struggling with 'this terrible name, war photographer', and why shooting landscapes instead of battle zones has finally granted him a sense of peace.
The Danish newspaper Politiken apologized February 26 for offending Muslims by reprinting a cartoon of the Prophet Mudammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban.
Andrew Jaffe, 71, a former Newsweek foreign correspondent,
died February 26, after a 10-year battle with cancer of the bone
marrow. He and his wife, Eileen Ast, a communications executive
who survives, live in New Canaan, Connecticut.
OPC member Gergana Koleva visited Haiti in 2005 and has just published an essay for the online journal, inthefray.org, in which “I survey the current and future situation in Haiti through the prism of my experience growing up in socialist Bulgaria.”
The Ryszard Kapuściński Award for literary reportage was established and
announced last month, on the third anniversary of the author’s death,
by the City of Warsaw and Poland’s largest daily newspaper, Gazeta
Wyborcza.
James G. Wieghart, 76, a former editor of the New York Daily
News and an OPC member, died of pneumonia February 21 in Clare,
Michigan. “Jim helped us with publicity for our award dinners for a
number of years, and he was a lovely man,” OPC Executive Director Sonya...
