Reporters News

Ask anyone today whether they think journalism is dead and their answer will depend on what medium they prefer to find their news. Most people today likely get much of their news online.

United States President Barack Obama has plans to directly attack the First Amendment in America by placing government monitors in newsrooms across America. The monitors would be used to pressure media organizations into covering certain stories.

New York - The Syrian war has dragged on for more than two years with both sides, the rebels and the Assad regime, blaming each other. Journalists reporting from the area face an increasingly hostile environment and kidnappings by rebel forces are on the increase.

Tehran - Fourteen Iranian journalists have been placed under arrest by government officials for reportedly "consorting with hostile foreign news media".

Are the ones in charge of the world wanting a zombie culture? Not being able to think is the key to being a zombie along with having no voice. How far from our society is that a reality?

Warsaw - Presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney is in Poland Tuesday to deliver a speech in Warsaw. During his trip, he made a stop at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where reporters tried to ask questions. One press aide lost his cool and cursed at reporters.

Palm Beach - Whoops a daisy! Reporters weren't supposed to hear this part. That's why it was a "closed door" fundraiser. No reporters invited. That means Mitt Romney felt comfortable to speak whatever the current version of "the truth" is these days.

As far as the network news broadcasts are concerned, who do you tune in to see? Did you ever wonder how many minutes they log in a year?

Tokyo - Foreign news reports bring preconceived notions to the forefront of the stories. Combined with on-camera theatrics and selective video and photos, the parachute journalists present a distorted version of the Fukushima effects on Tokyo.

Paris - An investigation is underway at Charles de Gaulle and Marseille airports after journalists filming a special for French TV were able to smuggle the parts of a 9mm handgun on-board a plane in their carry-on luggage and reassemble it during the flight.

Being a reporter can still be a very deadly job. According to polls, 57 reporters died this year and the highest rate was found in Pakistan.

By now it is old news that veteran journalist and White House correspondent Helen Thomas was forced into retirement over comments she made ridiculing Jews in Israel.

Baghdad - The US soldier who leaked the video of the Reuters journalists and civilians who were shot and killed has been identified and detained. Wikileaks released the classified combat video of the killing of reporters and unarmed civilians in Baghadad in April.

Giving a voice to the masses is a dangerous job, reports the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO). In 2009, 77 journalists were murdered, and 30 of those reporters in November alone.

The death toll from the Mindanao election-related massacre has risen to 47 as more bodies of victims were unearthed from the massacre site Tuesday. News reporters were among the victims.

Will citizen journalism replace traditional media? Are these reporters credible? What's the business model for citizen media? These are some of the questions addressed at the mesh 2009 conference on the future of news.

Major Kansas City, Missouri newspaper lays off more reporters than any other lay off in the history of the Kansas City Star.

On Friday President-elect Barack Obama held his first news conference since winning the election on Tuesday. The news conference was held in the Chicago Hilton, across from Grant Park, in a room set with a stage that had American flags as the backdrop.

Is the Obama '08 campaign beginning to tip its hand and show the world how an Obama presidency might run the Oval Office? If so, it would appear that the spirit of cooperation and bi-partisanship is going to be left on the tarmac, like road kill.

St. Paul officials are saying that they are dropping criminal charges against the slew of journalists that were arrested during the Republican National Convention's protests Friday.

An interesting comment by a reader at Digital Journal about the lack of voices concerning a reporter who could be executed got me to thinking. Where do we stand as citizen journalists?

Five journalists working in Nairobi have received death threats, apparently from the Mungiki, an underground Kikuyu sect in Kenya. One of the five had received prior threats.

Montel Williams tells high school student and newspaper intern, Courtney Scott “Don't look at me like that. Do you know who I am? I'm a big star, and I can look you up, find where you live and blow you up.”

Three CNET journalists are suing HP for millions for invasion of privacy. Pretexting investigators working for HP allegedly scrutinized the records of the reporters and their family members. HP has offered each reporter $10K, but reporters say no way.

Wisconsin

KARACHI (voa) - A prime suspect in the kidnapping of American reporter Daniel Pearl has told a Pakistani court that as far as he knows the reporter is dead. The suspect, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh -- known as Sheikh Omar -- did not say when or where t...