BBC broadcast journalist Shaimaa Khalil was detained by the Egyptian military on Monday while covering the latest protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, reports Agence France-Presse. Several people were injured and dozens detained as officials cleared the area where protesters had gathered for a three-week long sit-in. Khalil had posted updates on Twitter up until her […]

New York Times reporter James Risen does not have to reveal his source of information about a Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) effort to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program at the end of the Clinton administration, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema on Friday partially granted Risen’s request to quash a government subpoena […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) condemns the brutal attack of Gnanasundaram Kuhanathan, the editor of the Tamil-language daily newspaper Uthayan in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. According to reports on several Tamil news and human rights websites, the 59-year-old journalist was hospitalized for serious head injuries after the unidentified assailants beat him with iron bars outside his […]

In 1991, CNN took a bold step when it took  cameras to Teferi Ber refugee camp in Ethiopia, near the Somalia border, to film a series on the famine that everyone expected to happen that summer. At the time, Will King, CNN senior international editor, told the Los Angeles Times that he hoped the information […]