Tag: Press Freedom

Chinese news assistant detained before anniversary

Didi Tang · May 28, 2014 5:57 am

Sudan bans media from reporting on detained leader

Washington Examiner · May 26, 2014 7:19 pm

Amnesty urges Pakistan to probe threats to media

Asif Shahzad · April 30, 2014 1:44 pm

Explosion targets journalist’s car in Cameroon

Washington Examiner · April 24, 2014 10:18 pm

Pakistani journalists protest for their colleague Hamid Mir, who was shot and injured by gunmen in Karachi on Saturday, Monday, April 21, 2014 in Karachi, Pakistan. Police in Pakistan said gunmen shot the famous television talk show host amid a wave of attacks on journalists in the country. Police say Hamid Mir, a host on the private television broadcaster Geo, was wounded in the attack Saturday, April 19, 2014, near Karachi's airport. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

Pakistan’s army wants TV news channel shut down

Asif Shahzad · April 23, 2014 7:35 pm

A reporter Simon Ostrovsky, right, stands next to a Pro-Russian gunman at a seized police station in the eastern Ukraine town of Slovyansk. Pro-Russian gunmen in eastern Ukraine say they are holding an American journalist captive. Ostrovsky, a journalist for Vice News, has not been seen since early Tuesday. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

National Security

U.S. asks Russia to help free American journalist in Ukraine

Meghashyam Mali · April 23, 2014 4:00 am

A Ukrainian woman waves a Russian flag while chanting pro Russian slogans during a pro Russia rally in Khartsyrsk, Ukraine, Monday, April 21, 2014. A group of foreign reporters has been captured by pro-Russian insurgents in an east Ukrainian city, but were later released. One Belarusian and two Italian journalists were detained by gunmen in the city of Slovyansk, which has been occupied by pro-Russian forces for more than a week. Slovyansk is part of many towns in the Russian-speaking region where insurgents are demanding greater ties with Russia. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Gunmen detain 3 journalists in eastern Ukraine

Washington Examiner · April 21, 2014 6:34 pm

In this Oct. 24, 2013 photo, Win Tin, a former political prisoner and an opposition party stalwart poses for a picture at his home in Yangon, Myanmar. Win Tin, a prominent journalist who became Myanmar's longest-serving political prisoner after challenging military rule by co-founding the National League for Democracy has died. He was 85. He died of renal failure Monday morning, April 21, 2014, family said. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Anti-junta Myanmar journalist Win Tin dies at 85

AYE AYE WIN · April 21, 2014 4:46 pm

Journalists charged with defaming Thailand’s navy

Washington Examiner · April 17, 2014 9:15 am

The Richard family along with Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick participate in a wreath laying ceremony to commemorate the one year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings, Tuesday, April 15, 2014, in Boston. Martin Richard lost was killed in the bombing. (AP Photo/The Boston Herald, Nancy Lane) BOSTON GLOBE OUT; METRO BOSTON OUT; MAGS OUT; ONLINE OUT

White House defends closed press Obama moment of silence

Meghashyam Mali · April 15, 2014 4:00 am

Pulitzer for NSA coverage echoes tradition in news

Brett Zongker · April 14, 2014 11:58 pm

Globovision journalist Nairobi Pinto hugs a colleague as she answers a reporter's question after a press conference following her release from a kidnapping in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, April 14, 2014. Pinto was freed eight days after she was kidnapped in the town of Cua in Miranda state, but it's not yet clear why she was seized. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Venezuelan journalist freed 8 days after kidnap

Washington Examiner · April 14, 2014 6:44 pm