October 15, 2025
Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin has bestowed an annual state prize on a muckraking journalist who was beaten nearly to death after investigating official corruption in Khimki, a Moscow suburb. The case of the journalist, Mikhail Beketov, has become a symbol Russia’s culture of impunity.
NPR has an opening for a supervising Senior Editor of its Foreign Desk. Its current editor, Loren Jenkins, is retiring next month.
Tracy Wood, long my friend, suggested I describe the life of a correspondent in Saigon before most of the Viet Hacks arrived. So here goes. Ernie Hoberecht, then the UP vice president for Asia, sent me to Saigon in 1956, not because of any news requirement but because President Ngo Dinh Diem’s government agreed to sign a contract with UP for delivery of our radio Teletype news to Vietnam Press, the nation’s official news agency, if UP replaced its French correspondent with an American. I was that American, the French correspondent returned to Paris and I was UP’s bureau manager for two years, 1956-1958.
The International News Safety Institute marked the launch of its North American arm on Friday, October 14. A panel of celebrated reporters and industry leaders spoke about dangers and risks, in what has been one of the bloodiest in recent years for those working in journalism. Watch Video |
Dan Frommer, who helped to launch Business Insider and now is covering technology on his own site, describes how Google News rejected his request to be indexed because he’s a one-man shop.
When the news of Moammar Gaddafi’s death broke on Thursday, it was no surprise which network was first witih a video of the bloodied dictator’s body dragged through the streets of Sirte: Al-Jazeera.
British auditors of newspaper sales said Thursday that they were reviewing the circulation of The Wall Street Journal Europe after reports that the publication had inflated its figures through unorthodox means.
The Huffington Post Media Group has teamed up with newspaper, magazine and website publisher Le Monde and Les Nouvelles Editions Indépendantes to launch ‘Le Huffington Post’, a French edition of the news and opinion portal. The new joint venture is currently recruiting editors to prepare for a launch before the end of 2011.
Arrest of reporters at Occupy Wall Street protest raise questions about NYPD press credential process.
The decapitated body of Mexican journalist Maria Elizabeth Macías Castro was found on a road near the city of Nuevo Laredo on Saturday, news reports said.
