A journalist’s claim that 11 of his close relatives were murdered in Iraq last weekend is false. Amman-based Iraqi journalist Dia al-Kawwaz had claimed on November 26 that 11 members of his immediate family were shot by gunmen the previous day in Baghdad. “We are obviously relieved to learn that the Kawwaz family is safe and [...]

BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi journalist Wednesday challenged government denials that 11 of his relatives were slaughtered in their Baghdad home, urging authorities to show that his claim was false by letting “all my family appear on television.” Dhia al-Kawaz, editor of the Jordan-based Aswat al-Iraq news agency, had said masked gunmen stormed the family home [...]

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A distinguished University of Missouri-Columbia journalism professor will no longer write a weekly newspaper column after admitting he plagiarized material from a student reporter. John Merrill, a professor emeritus at the university’s School of Journalism, wrote a Sunday column for the Columbia Missourian, a community newspaper affiliated with the school. His Nov. 4 [...]

WASHINGTON: The offending word is “sonofabitch.” Pakistan has expelled three British reporters after a UK daily twice referred the country’s military dictator Pervez Musharraf as a “sonofabitch,” sparking off a yet another fervent debate about language, stylebook and the limits of editorial expression. The comment, deemed offensive by the Pakistani government, appeared in a November 9 editorial [...]

A Swedish woman who squirted water in the prime minister’s face in a fake interview for a TV show has been fined 20,000 kronor ($A3,500) for the prank. The Stockholm District Court fined Hanna Wilenius for recklessly pulling the close-up prank on Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, despite the risk of it being misinterpreted as a real [...]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police posed as a TV news crew to trap a one-time Palestinian informer, provoking an outcry from critics who said the sting threatened to put the lives of newspeople at risk. Police said the target of the operation was Nadim Injaz, a Palestinian man who had been wanted for making unspecified threats. Last [...]

New Delhi, Nov 05: Uma Khurana, the teacher who figured in a fake TV sting operation, on Monday filed a criminal case in a court here against `Live India` channel and its CEO and reporter for defaming her by showing her as running an alleged prostitution racket. Khurana in her complaint alleged that the channel`s CEO [...]

New Delhi (PTI): Prakash Singh, the sacked reporter of a TV news channel and his associate Virender Arora were on Monday granted bail by a court here after the completion of the investigation into the fake sting operation. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Alok Aggarwal released Singh, the ‘Live India’ reporter and Arora on bail after presenting [...]

The journalist who interviewed a neo-Nazi for Germany’s Vanity Fair filed charges against him. Michel Friedman — a journalist, attorney and former leader in the German Jewish community — wanted to interview far-rightist Horst Mahler about his roots as a founding member of the left-extremist Red Army Faction for the trendy magazine. Mahler, 71, who famously underwent [...]

Mumbai (PTI): A reporter of a website was on Saturday arrested for allegedly sending an e-mail impersonating as Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, a senior police official said. Ashwin Pinto was arrested in the morning from his residence in the Cuffe Parade area of South Mumbai and produced before a local court which remanded him to [...]

STOCKHOLM, Sweden: What started with a kiss in a Stockholm bar turned into an embarrassment for the Swedish government Thursday as the prime minister’s senior aide stepped down, apologizing for a wine-soaked evening out with a TV journalist. Ulrica Schenstrom, the top civil servant in the office of conservative Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, said in a [...]

NEW DELHI: The Delhi police on Tuesday filed the charge sheet against the reporter, Prakash Singh, who had allegedly carried out a fake sting operation in which a female school teacher was purportedly shown to be involved in a prostitution racket. Prakash’s co-accused Virender Arora has also been named in the charge sheet. In the charge [...]

MIAMI (AP) — A television reporter investigating a story on school violence was arrested after carrying a loaded gun onto school property, authorities said. Jeffrey Weinsier of WPLG-TV, an ABC network affiliate, was taken into custody Tuesday at Miami Central High School after ignoring several warnings not to walk on school property, Miami-Dade schools police said. “Kindly [...]

The BBC has defended the director-general Mark Thompson’s decision to attend a cocktail party in India as he finalises plans to cut up to 2,800 jobs. Mr Thompson and three executives have jetted off to Mumbai for a lavish bash to celebrate the BBC’s success in India. The trip is costing a reported £12,000. Next week, BBC [...]

The Allahabad High Court has stayed the arrest of a senior journalist of a Delhi-based news channel Roy Tapan Bharati in connection with FIRs lodged against him and another senior journalist for their alleged involvement in suicide by a junior reporter in Noida. In a suicide note, deceased Priya Singh, a reporter in a Noida based [...]