Tag: News media
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though...
Exiled Turkish journalist attacked outside home in Germany
ANKARA, Turkey — A Turkish journalist, who is critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government and has been living in exile in Germany, was...
Belarus government blocks top media outlet, detain reporters
KYIV, Ukraine — The Belarusian authorities on Thursday blocked the website of a leading online media outlet and detained several of its journalists, the...
Critics: Postal Service plans imperil community newspapers
The U.S. Postal Service's plan to raise mailing rates could present one more damaging blow to community newspapers already reeling from the coronavirus pandemic...
Judge jails editor over reporter’s use of recorder in court
RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina Superior Court judge put a small-town newspaper editor behind bars last month after one of his reporters used...
Philanthropies eagerly back ex-UNC professor Hannah-Jones
NEW YORK — Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones used major philanthropic donors to build her future as a tenured professor at Howard University, just as other...
Shooting of star Dutch reporter raises European concern
AMSTERDAM — European leaders and lawmakers expressed dismay Wednesday and rights advocates demanded justice after a veteran Dutch crime reporter was shot in the...
Prosecutor: Newspaper gunman spoke of making trial ‘a farce’
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The man who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper told a state psychiatrist that he intended to make “a farce”...
Can’t watch fireworks at home? Millions choose NBC
NEW YORK — More than 8 million people took in Fourth of July fireworks on television this year, watching NBC's coverage of the Macy's...
Nikole Hannah-Jones she will not teach at UNC-Chapel Hill
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones says she will not teach at the journalism school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...