" Today I received an e-mail from Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting about an article published by by University of Southern California professor Sandy Tolan, who examines why the detention of Pulitzer Center...
Sri Lanka's Labour minister Mervin Silva grabbed the microphone from Sirasa TV station reporters in a conference, infront of media officials saying that Sirasa TV degraded the self respect of the...
Yes. Its in Sri Lanka. The astrologer named Chandrasiri Bandara, writing for a sinhalese newspaper was arrested and is being interrogated for the predictions he made. He predicted that present primeminister would...
A female Tamil reporter named Krishni Ifam was kidnapped by armed men in white van. White van abductions are very common in sri lanka, which are by groups linked to government. " A Sri Lankan journalist says she was kidnapped from outside her home in the capital Colombo and...
Newsweek magazine is demanding the release of a Canadian journalist held in Iran.The CBC reported that Maziar Bahari was taken by a group of men believe to be "security officials" on Sunday from the apartment he share with his mother, according to Newsweek foreign editor...
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Journalist Jessica McBride has been discovered to have had an affair with Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn. Mr. Flynn told the press that the affair started earlier this year, but he did not name Ms. McBride specifically in his statement. He said he was sorry he had hurt...
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Crime, Diseases and Celebrations - A rare combo one can find in the island Sri Lanka.
The following are few of the incidents that happened in a week:""
The above doesn't include the abduction of an...
Update 06/10/2009 5:04 am EST According to a spokesman, Ramsay is sorry for Grimshaw rant, yet "He denied calling the Nine Network veteran a lesbian while appearing at Melbourne's Good Food and Wine Show during...
Poddala Jayantha, General secretary of Sri Lanka workin journalist's association was abducted and assaulted today afternoon. He was on his way back home from work while this incident happened. He is admitted to...
American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport today, after spending a week in Vienna recuperating. "Roxana Saberi told reporters upon her arrival that singing the...
I remember my past life. I used to be Brazilian, a journalist, a friend of many, a daughter of a loving couple, a sister. I used to be a master of language. I used to know my way around the biggest city in Latin...
American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi has now been freed. " TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A lawyer for a U.S. journalist jailed in Iran says she has been freed from prison after an appeals court suspended her...
U.K. journalist Tony McDonough, the deputy business editor at the Echo in Liverpool, was hit a few days ago by a spray of gun pellets at a pub, when a gunman on a motorcycle rode by and fired upon the building. "McDonough, still fairly new to Twitter, did what he was taught...
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Jailed Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi has been fed intravenously at an Iranian prison hospital in the midst of a hunger strike, according to her father. "Roxana Saberi was taken to the hospital at...
In an alarming incident, a Pakistani journalist was kidnapped by the country's security agencies that they can "milk" the source of information from him. The reporter made a news about a recent military operation that was conducted on Monday by the army against Terrorists in...