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Iran Charges American Hikers With Illegal Entry

Says case is being used by West for propaganda

Aug 4, 09 8:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran has charged the three American hikers who stumbled across its border with illegal entry, a security official announced today. “They are definitely Americans. We don’t know whether they are tourists or not. We are questioning them,” he said. Authorities accused the West of using the case... More »

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Iran • journalist • tourists • hikers • Shane Bauer • Joshua Fattal • Sarah Shourd

(Newser) - Bill Clinton is in North Korea, where he will attempt to secure the freedom of two American journalists imprisoned since March, Reuters reports, citing South and North Korean news agencies. "As soon as he arrives, he will be entering negotiations," said a source. The White House and State... More »

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North Korea • Al Gore • South Korea • White House • State Department • Bill Clinton • Current TV • journalist • television news • Obama administration • Euna Lee • Laura Ling

TRIBUTE

Cronkite Shook Our Faith
in American Institutions

The most trusted man in America often undermined the system

Jul 18, 09 5:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Armed with a “splendid poker face and a voice that incarnated authority,” Walter Cronkite symbolized the very credibility of American institutions that his reporting came to undermine, Todd Gitlin writes in the New Republic. Whether it was the Pentagon or the president of the United States, Cronkite broke... More »

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reporter • journalist • CBS News • Walter Cronkite

tributes

 Cronkite 'Spoke for the Nation' 


Jul 18, 09 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The tributes are pouring in for Walter Cronkite:
  • Howard Kurtz, Washington Post: His "passing, in the end, is the passing of an era, an era of black-and-white television, of mass audiences, of a slower time when the country waited for the headlines at 6:30 in the
... More »

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journalism • journalist • Walter Cronkite • news anchor • CBS Evening News

(Newser) - Walter Cronkite, the CBS anchorman who revolutionized television news for a generation, died today at age 92, CBS News reports. He had suffered a long illness and was at home in New York with his family. Cronkite helmed the CBS Evening News throughout the 1960s and '70s, guiding America through... More »

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obituary • journalist • Walter Cronkite • news anchor • CBS Evening News

Brit Cops Face Probe Over Media Bribes

MPs may investigate whether journos pay police for information

Jul 12, 09 7:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - British Parliament may investigate police over reports that journalists pay them for dirt on celebrities and criminal suspects, the Guardian reports. Since police opted not to reopen a probe into alleged phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid News of the World, several politicians have been seeking to determine if... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • police • press • bribery • journalist • Britain • News of the World • British media

'Stressed' Jailed Journo Calls Sis
From N. Korea

Ling, Lee shaken
by 12 years in
hard labor camp

Jul 9, 09 1:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - An American journalist imprisoned in North Korea has been allowed to call her sister after weeks of silence, CNN reports. Laura Ling and fellow journalist Euna Lee "seemed to be treated fairly but they're very, very stressed and concerned about being sent to a labor camp," said Laura's... More »

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North Korea • journalist • Euna Lee • Laura Ling

 Jailed Newsweek 
 Journo Confessed 
 to Conspiracy: Iran 

State-run TV shows reporter confessing to filing biased reports to create unrest

Jul 2, 09 5:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Newsweek reporter who was arrested in Iran last month has confessed to filing "biased" news reports to stir unrest as part of a conspiracy to undermine the country's government, according to Iranian state-run media. Maziar Bahari made the alleged confession at a press conference Tuesday, Bloomberg reports. "... More »

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Iran • Newsweek • protests • journalist • confession • Iranian election • Maziar Bahari

 Iran Police Clash 
 With 3K Protesters 

Witness describe chaos at a protest near Tehran mosque

Jun 28, 09 1:47 PM CDT
(AP) - Riot police clashed with up to 3,000 protesters near a mosque in north Tehran today, using tear gas and truncheons to break up Iran's first post-election demonstration in 5 days. Witnesses told the AP that some protesters fought back, chanting: "Where is my vote?" They said others described... More »

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Iran • Tehran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • protests • journalist • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Basij militia

Russia Orders Retrial in Journalist's Murder

Supreme Court throws out acquittals in Politkovskaya case

Jun 25, 09 5:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia's Supreme Court has overturned the acquittals of three men in the murder of crusading journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and ordered a retrial, reports the BBC. Prosecutors claimed that judicial irregularities and misinformation led to an improper verdict, and Politkovskaya's newspaper colleagues have accused the police of shoddy work. Despite international... More »

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Russia • Moscow • murder • Kremlin • Chechnya • journalists killed • journalist • Anna Politkovskaya • Novaya Gazeta

Envoy Visits Jailed US Journalists in N. Korea

Diplomat granted access for first time since women received 12-year sentence

Jun 24, 09 5:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - A diplomat has been allowed to visit Euna Lee and Laura Ling for the first time since North Korea sentenced the US journalists to 12 years' hard labor, CNN reports. The Swedish ambassador, acting on behalf of the US, met with the journalists in Pyongyang, according to the State Department.... More »

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North Korea • Current TV • journalist • Euna Lee • Laura Ling

 Iran: Foreign Media  
 Speaks for 'Hooligans' 

Journalists 'damaging the Islamic republic'

Jun 17, 09 1:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iran has slammed foreign journalists for sparking unrest in the country as the “mouthpieces” of “hooligans,” CNN reports. The foreign ministry said “hundreds” of foreigners had been allowed into Iran in “a sign of the total transparency in the trends of the elections,” but... More »

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Iran • social networking • media • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • protests • Revolutionary Guards • journalist • riots • protesters • Mir Hossein Mousavi

 Daily Show 
 to Feature 
 Dispatches 
 From Iran 

Parody news show inches closer to becoming an actual news show

Jun 16, 09 1:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Daily Show will begin airing reports from a correspondent in Iran next week, the New York Times reports. Correspondent Jason Jones spent late May and early June filming in Tehran, Qom, and the Imam Mosque in Esfahan for his weeklong series Jason Jones in Iran: Access of Evil. Jones’... More »

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Iran • Tehran • Comedy Central • The Daily Show • journalist • Jason Jones • Qom

(AP) - Two American journalists sentenced in Pyongyang last week to 12 years' hard labor were detained in North Korean territory after crossing into the country illegally, state-run media said today, providing the first details about the circumstances of their arrest. Laura Ling and Euna Lee "admitted and accepted" their punishment... More »

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North Korea • Current TV • journalist • Euna Lee • Laura Ling

Journalists Face Hellish Sentence in Korean Gulag

Survivors describe torture, starvation in 're-education' camps

Jun 9, 09 6:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The 12 years of hard labor facing Euna Lee and Laura Ling hardly seem like a weekend in county lockup, but yesterday's sentence is particularly brutal in North Korea, where prisoners routinely face torture and often death. The two journalists may be sent to a re-education reformatory, reports the Los ... More »

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North Korea • prison • journalist • sentence • Euna Lee • Laura Ling

(Newser) - North Korea’s sentencing of two US journalists to hard labor further complicates relations between the nations, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The White House seeks tougher UN sanctions against North Korea after it tested a nuclear bomb last month, and experts say the sentences’ timing is no coincidence. “... More »

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Hillary Clinton • North Korea • Al Gore • nuclear weapons • journalist • negotiations • UN sanctions • state sponsors of terror list • Euna Lee • Laura Ling

 North Korea Sentences 
 US Journalists to 12 Years 

They get labor prison for sneaking into country

Jun 8, 09 2:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - After a hasty trial, North Korean officials have sentenced two young American journalists to 12 years hard labor for an unspecified "grave crime," and for illegally crossing into the reclusive country, AP reports. The decision can't be appealed because reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee were tried by... More »

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North Korea • jail • journalist • Euna Lee • Laura Ling • labor prison

US Journalists'
Trial Begins in Secret

Women face labor camps if found
guilty of 'hostile acts' in N. Korea

Jun 5, 09 2:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - North Korea began the trial of two American reporters yesterday in a media blackout, AFP reports. Laura Ling and Euna Lee are charged with entering the country illegally and engaging in unspecified "hostile acts" and could be sentenced to up to 10 years in a labor camp. North Korea... More »

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North Korea • trial • Pyongyang • journalist • Euna Lee • Laura Ling

(Newser) - Roxana Saberi tells NPR that she falsely confessed to being a spy because she was under "severe psychological and mental pressure" from Iranian authorities. Saberi says she wasn't physically tortured in prison, but she was subjected to hours of interrogation and threatened with a 20-year prison sentence or execution... More »

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Iran • journalist • Roxana Saberi

(Newser) - Roxana Saberi, the 32-year-old journalist recently sprung from a prison in Iran, got a face-to-face meeting today with Hillary Clinton to express her thanks, reports CNN. "When I found out that I had the support while I was in prison, I gained a lot of strength and hope, and... More »

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Iran • Hillary Clinton • secretary of State • journalist • Roxana Saberi

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