September 24, 2025
South Africa accused Libyan leaders of spreading “misinformation” about the fate of Anton Hammerl, a
South African photojournalist who has been missing in Libya since early
last month. His family believes he died after being shot on April 5 in
the desert.
Libyan authorities released four foreign journalists — James Foley, Clare Morgana Gillis, Manuel Varela, and Nigel Chandler — who had been held for more than six weeks to a hotel in Tripoli.
Four journalists held for illegally entering the country have each been given a one-year jail sentence, which has been commuted, and should be released soon, a government spokesman said Wednesday.
Dorothy Parvaz, a journalist from the Al Jazeera network missing in Syrian and Iran for almost three weeks has been released and was “safe and well and back with us in Doha,” the Qatar-based network said Wednesday.
Muck Rack has published a Q&A with Paul Brandus of the West Wing Report, where he talks about Twitter, getting a White House press pass and the inspiration behind WWR.
Missing Al Jazeera journalist Dorothy Parvaz has been deported from Syria to Iran, the network has reported.
Jim Lehrer, 76, who has anchored “NewsHour” for 36 years, will leave the daily broadcast on June 6, but continue to appear on Fridays to moderate its weekly news analysis segment featuring a panel of journalists, reports Paul Farhi.
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller was this year’s recipient of the OPC President’s Award. Here is his acceptance speech that he gave on April 28 at the 72nd OPC Awards Dinner.
The 72nd Annual OPC Awards Dinner was punctuated by the highs and lows of an audience that grieved for the deaths of photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, who were killed just eight days before. The dinner brought people together, many of whom for the past week were in sorrow over the deaths and provided a platform for those gathered at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York to reluctantly accept that the world and journalism community lost two of its finest. Videos | Photo Slideshow |
Bahrain said on Tuesday that it was expelling Reuters correspondent Frederik Richter in the Gulf kingdom.
