MELBOURNE: Hedley Thomas, the journalist who wrote a series of stories about the Australian government’s handling of Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef’s arrest on suspected terror charge, has won the country’s most coveted journalism award. Thomas, who is associated with The Australian newspaper, won the “Gold Walkley” award for covering and highlighting the mistakes made by the [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Facebook is good for keeping up with high-flying buddies, MySpace is for teenage offspring and the BlackBerry is a full-time addiction, according to top media executives who were quizzed on their personal media habits at this week’s Reuters Media Summit. “I may be the only human being on earth who’s on MySpace [...]

BAGHDAD (AP) — Bilal Hussein’s career as a photojournalist nearly ended soon after it began. Hussein, who had been working for The Associated Press for about three months, volunteered to stay in his native Fallujah as U.S. forces prepared to assault the city to drive out Sunni religious extremists. It was a decision not taken lightly. [...]

Li Changqing, a Chinese journalist who was imprisoned for alerting the public to an outbreak of dengue fever before the authorities, has been awarded the 2008 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association of Newspapers. Li, a reporter and deputy news director of the ‘Fuzhou Daily’ in Fuzhou City, Fujian [...]

The International Press Institute (IPI) has appointed IPI Deputy Director David Dadge as the new director of IPI. He will succeed Professor Johann P Fritz, who is retiring at the end of 2007. Dadge (41) has worked at the IPI secretariat in Vienna, Austria, since April 2000 as the editor of the IPI World Press Freedom [...]

New Delhi, Nov 4: Not many know that the 1857 War of Independence witnessed the first journalist martyred in the cause of the freedom of India and of the press. The fearless scribe, Moulvi Muhammad Baqar, did spot coverage of the uprising in Delhi and carried the report in the May 17 issue of his [...]

Six women who risked their lives reporting in Iraq, a Mexican reporter who faced death threats for her reporting on paedophiles, and an Ethiopian journalist who was charged with treason have received awards for courage from the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF). Caroline Kennedy (left) speaks with journalist Ban Adil Sarhan of Iraq before Sarhan was [...]

For the second year in a row, the Kurt Schork Memorial Awards have honoured a journalist killed in Iraq because of critical reporting. Sahar Hussein al-Haideri was the top reporter working in the perilous Mosul region, fearlessly writing about efforts by extremist forces to take control of the city and foment sectarian conflict. Haideri reported for [...]

ROME (Reuters) – Lirio Abbate has an unwelcome distinction among Italian journalists: correspondent in Sicily for the state news agency Ansa and La Stampa newspaper, he has had his own armed police escort for the past six months. Italian journalists Lirio Abbate works in his office in Rome October 18, 2007. Abbate, correspondent in Sicily for [...]

(M&C) – The BBC journalist who was abducted and held by militants in Gaza City earlier this year is to reveal details of his ordeal in an hour-long Panorama special. Alan Johnston spent 113 days in captivity before being released in on July 4. The documentary, to be shown on October 25, will include questions put [...]

TAIPING: An Indonesian construction worker claimed trial to raping a 34-year-old journalist from his home country. Remmang, 46, pleaded not guilty to raping the woman between 9pm on Sept 17 and 1am the next day at a kongsi house at the construction site of the Mara Junior Science College in Liman Kati, Kuala Kangsar. [...]

An Indonesian reporter who went to Malaysia to write a special report on allegations of abuse and exploitation of Indonesian workers in the country was last week assaulted and raped by a man who tricked her into believing that he could provide her with information. According to reports, the 34-year-old magazine journalist was lured by [...]

New York, September 10, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists mourns the death of three Mexican reporters killed during a blast on Sunday night while covering a collision between a truck carrying dynamite and a vehicle in the northern Coahuila state. At least 34 people were killed and 150 injured in the explosion, The Associated Press [...]

A year and a half following the violent shockwaves sent across the Islamic world with the publication of 12 editorial cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed and criticizing Islam in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, culture editor Flemming Rose said he apologizes for offending the sentiments of Muslim people but has no regrets as that would mean succumbing to [...]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – People ask if it is tough being a journalist in Iraq. For me the hardest job is being a mother. The daily fear for my son overwhelmed me last year when a car bomb exploded near our home during the fasting month of Ramadan. My son Hani, who was six at the time, had [...]