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Taiwan media kingpin pushes hard on China ties
Appearing last year before Taiwanese regulators, billionaire media magnate Tsai Eng-meng appeared perplexed over a decision to fine his flagship ...
Newspapers around the world run with Pistorius
Photographs of Oscar Pistorius, some with a gray hood covering his head and others with him running in the Olympic Stadium in London, were splashed ...
US ruling means release of Legion of Christ docs
Documents related to a disgraced Roman Catholic organization called the Legion of Christ could soon be unsealed and available to the public following ...
British detective jailed in phone-hacking scandal
A senior British counterterrorism detective was sentenced Friday to 15 months in prison for trying to sell information to Rupert Murdoch's News of the ...
Spanish daily halts edition with fake Chavez photo
The leading Spanish newspaper El Pais withdrew and reprinted its Thursday edition after discovering that its front-page exclusive photograph ...
UK tabloid journalist charged over police bribes
The defense editor of Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid The Sun and a former police officer have been charged in connection with the bribing of public ...
Hungary groups call for ad boycott of newspaper
Hungarian civic groups are calling on companies to pull their ads from a newspaper that published a column in which a member of the governing Fidesz ...
French journalist killed in Syria
French President Francois Hollande offered condolences Friday for a French journalist slain in the Syrian city of Aleppo while reporting on the civil ...
NHL says it's sorry to fans in newspaper ads
With hockey set to return after a four-month lockout, the NHL is apologizing again. Echoing last week's remarks by Commissioner Gary Bettman, the NHL ...
2 police officers arrested in UK bribery inquiry
British police investigating corruption related to the tabloid phone-hacking scandal say they have arrested two police officers and a journalist.
Censorship row shows China's tight grip on media
China's new Communist Party leaders want to appear more open, but they're not about to give up control of the media. That's the lesson of a dustup ...
UK detective found guilty in phone hacking scandal
A top British counterterrorism detective was found guilty Thursday of trying to sell information to one of Rupert Murdoch's tabloids, becoming the ...
China newspaper publishes after deal ends standoff
An influential weekly newspaper whose staff rebelled to protest heavy-handed censorship by Chinese government officials published as normal Thursday ...
UK detective on trial over phone hacking leak
A senior British counterterrorism detective committed a "gross breach" of public trust by trying to sell information to Rupert Murdoch's News of the ...
American journalist missing in Syria
An American journalist has been missing in Syria since he was kidnapped more than one month ago, his family said Wednesday, less than two years after ...
Detained Nigerian newspaper journalists released
An official says two Nigerian journalists have been freed after being detained without charges for more than a week by the nation's secret police ...
Myanmar to allow daily private newspapers
Myanmar said Friday it will allow private daily newspapers starting in April for the first time since 1964, in the latest step toward allowing freedom ...
China tightening controls on Internet
China's new communist leaders are increasing already tight controls on Internet use and electronic publishing following a spate of embarrassing online ...
Possible Wintour appointment gets London talking
Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John Quincy Adams ... and now Anna Wintour? A report suggesting that the influential editor-in-chief of Vogue is one ...
News Corp Int'l news chief to step down
Tom Mockridge, the chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers who was parachuted in to steady an organization swamped in scandal, is ...
UK judge issues damning press verdict
Britain's unruly newspapers should be regulated by an independent body dominated by non-journalists with the power to levy steep fines, a judge said ...
Long scandal highlights faults of British press
Here are key developments in the phone hacking scandal involving segments of Britain's unruly press: November 2005: The News of the World tabloid ...
BBC drama 'The Hour' back to make the 1950s sexy
The media are under fire, celebrities are under the microscope. Welcome to Britain in 2012 — or in the 1950s, the setting for the BBC drama "The Hour.