Marta Cooper: Blogging the Leveson Inquiry: Evidence to begin in November
Blogging the Leveson Inquiry: Evidence to begin in November
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Ai Weiwei: “maybe being powerful means to be fragile”
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been named the most powerful person in the art world in ArtReview magazine's Power 100 poll, which rates the contemporary art world's most influential figures. In an interview with BBC World Service's Global News, Ai...
Blogging the Leveson Inquiry: Paul Dacre goes on the attack
Marta Cooper: Blogging the Leveson Inquiry: Paul Dacre goes on the attack
Blogger reaches 50th day of hunger strike
Maikel Nabil Sanad is today entering his 50th day of hunger strike. The Egyptian blogger has been abstaining from food since 23 August in protest of a three-year sentence handed to him by a military court on charges of "insulting the armed forces"...
Watergate reporter emphasises need for free speech at Guardian event
Marta Cooper: Watergate reporter emphasises need for free speech at Guardian event
“Detained” reporter refutes New York Times article
We've been alerted to a debate that has arisen regarding our post on Monday 26 September, in which we noted that the New York Times had reported that a journalist investigating a sex slavery scandal in China's Henan province had been "detained" and...
Peru: Journalists sentenced to house arrest for defamation
Two Peruvian journalists accused of defamation were last week sentenced to two years in prison, although on suspended sentences which involve house arrest and paying a civil fine of $11,000 USD. Fritz Du Bois, editor of the newspaper Perú 21, and...
Leveson Inquiry panel status challenged at hearing
Marta Cooper: Leveson Inquiry panel status challenged at hearing
Mexico: Reporter goes missing in Veracruz
Mexican reporter Manuel Gabriel Fonseca Hernández, who covers crime for El Mañanero de Acayucan, a newspaper in the south of Veracruz state, has been reported missing since 19 September. His family says that, on day he disappeared, he had gone out...
Reporter detained for article on sex slavery
It was revealed last week that a Chinese man who imprisoned six women as sex slaves in a self-dug cellar was arrested in Luoyang city, Henan province. 34-year-old Li Hao, a civil servant who has since been sacked and stripped of his party...
The Law Society Public Debate: Privacy, Free Press and the Public Interest
Marta Cooper: Privacy, free press and the public interest
China: Journalist killed after ‘gutter’ oil investigation
A Chinese journalist broke the story of a health scandal on the sale of cooking oil dredged from gutters was stabbed to death on Monday. Li Xiang, 30, a reporter with Luoyang Television Station in Henan province, was knifed more than 10 times as...