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Allegations that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has been caught in a video smoking crack cocaine has prompted several online crowdsourcing campaigns aimed at raising $200,000 to buy the footage.

Appearing on Fox & Friends , Roger Ailes' biographer Zev Chafets joined host Steve Doocy in toasting Fox News' coverage of the so-called Benghazi scandal.

United States President Barack Obama is encouraging Congress to take up a media shield law that was abandoned at the start of his administration, but critics of the bill say it might make it even easier for journalists to be subpoenaed by the government.

Based in Luxembourg, Boyd van Hoeij will begin immediately from Cannes. Formerly the Paris- and Luxembourg-based critic of Variety , Van Hoeij also was the film editor of Dutch magazine Winq and a regular contributor to indieWIRE.

Bloomberg LP, the financial news and information service, on Friday said it has appointed Samuel Palmisano, the former CEO of IBM, as an independent adviser on its privacy and data standards.

Nearly half of all local newspaper editors believe the Leveson Inquiry has negatively affected their titles' relationship with readers, according to a survey of NS member editors for this year's press freedom-themed Local Newspaper Week.

The adjectives pile up as top editors, writers and free press advocates level their aim at the division of the Attorney General’s Office in Mexico responsible for prosecuting crimes against journalists.

'When a scientist is asked to write an editorial about a new scientific paper, she is expected to not only mention the novelty and significance of the paper.' Photograph: Radu Razvan/Alamy The bulk of contemporary science journalism falls under the category of "infotainment". This expression describes science writing that informs a non-specialist ... (more)

Nancy McCauley Branstetter said she has been been lucky enough to interview five U.S. Presidents during her media career at her April 21 induction into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.

Mobile phone service was cut off Thursday in areas of northeast Nigeria as jet fighters streaked through the sky and more soldiers were deployed to fight Islamic extremists waging a brutal insurgency.

In fact, the White House tends to have a siege mentality in its dealings with the media.

The new era of state-based online investigative journalism stems not only from the decline of resources in newspapers around the nation, but also the growing vacuum in state-based coverage on numerous topics.

In this Friday, March 13, 2009, file photo, discarded newspaper racks clutter a storage yard in San Francisco.

This citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows buildings which were destroyed from Syrian forces shelling, in Homs province, Syria, Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

After four years as the director of the School of Journalism, Glenn Frankel will retire from his position and become a full-time author.

Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that his decision to remove himself from the Justice Department investigation into a leak that led it to surreptitiously collect telephone records from the Associated Press leaves him unable to respond to questions about it.

Colombia's government warned on Tuesday of a plot by a criminal group to kill several high-profile journalists just weeks after the attempted assassination of an investigative reporter boosted concerns over threats to a free press in the violence-plagued Andean nation.

Youngsville High School students entered the NWPA High School Journalism Competition and attend the Seventh Annual Journalism Day at Edinboro University on April 12.

The Gupta family has undertaken to co-operate with investigations into the unauthorised landing of its chartered plane at Waterkloof Air Force Base.

Recent news that the Department of Justice pulled AP phone records makes a new book by former New York Times general counsel James C. Goodale all the more relevant.