Source Named in Case of Rhode Island TV Reporter Facing Jail
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.  - A U.S. television reporter  facing prison for refusing to reveal the identity of his source  in a bribe case may have gotten a big break because the source  has voluntarily identified himself to officials, documents  showed on Wednesday.
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By DIKKY SINN  HONG KONG - A jailed Chinese reporter accused of leaking state secrets has joined a U.S. lawsuit claiming Yahoo Inc. helped the Chinese government convict dissidents, his mother said Sunday.
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By Iacono, Erica  ANALYSIS  THE MEDIA FIRESTORM that followed the arrest of a suspect in the 10-year-old murder case of JonBenet Ramsey was not entirely unexpected.
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Investigators tried to draw a connection between a board member and the father of a CNET News.com reporter.
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A former New York Times reporter, who was jailed during the CIA leak investigation, testified Tuesday that Lewis "Scooter" Libby told her the identity of an outed CIA operative weeks before the date he told investigators he had learned of the agent's identity. The timeline in the case is key as Libby is accused of lying to a grand jury about what he knew and when. Judith Miller served 85 days in jail in 2005 for refusing to testify at the grand jury.
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A federal judge may hold a former USA Today reporter in contempt if she will not identify sources in stories about an ex-Army scientist under scrutiny in the 2001 anthrax attacks
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WASHINGTON Aug. 19, 2004  A judge&#39;s decision to punish five reporters for refusing to identify their sources for stories about nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee threatens to chill vital newsgathering at a time of increased government secrecy, advocates say.
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Martha Stewart has been ordered to serve her sentence for lying about a stock sale at the federal prison in Alderson, W.Va., a source close to the case told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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The reporter was convicted of criminal contempt for refusing to disclose who leaked him an F.B.I. videotape on an investigation of government corruption in Providence.
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Two San Francisco Chronicle reporters will avoid jail time under a plea agreement by a criminal defense lawyer who admitted leaking them secret grand jury documents from the BALCO steroids investigation.
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A federal judge held a reporter for The New York Times in contempt of court for refusing to name her sources to prosecutors investigating the leak of the identity of a covert C.I.A. agent.
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Two weeks after telling police that her son had been snatched from his crib, Melinda Duckett found herself reeling in an interview with TV's famously prosecutorial Nancy Grace. Before it was over, Grace was pounding her desk and loudly demanding to know: "Where were you? Why aren't you telling us where you were that day?"
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BEIJING, Sept. 15 -- A jailed researcher for the New York Times was released in Beijing at about 8:15 a.m. Saturday after serving a three-year sentence for accepting money from a source, a charge he denies.
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A New York Times reporter and a Time magazine reporter can be jailed if they continue to refuse to answer questions before a grand jury about their confidential conversations with government sources, a federal appeals court decided this morning.
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A TV station and a cameraman accused of getting in the way of people fleeing a deadly Rhode Island nightclub fire have reached a tentative $30 million settlement with survivors and victimsâ relatives.
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(PROVIDENCE, RI) - A conviction for criminal contempt could land a Rhode Island TV reporter in jail for six months. The reporter refuses to name a source who gave him an FBI videotape showing a Providence city official taking a bribe.
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HAMILTON (CP) - A newspaper reporter who refuses to say who gave him sensitive information will have to wait a few more days to find out whether he will be sent to jail in a case that has alarmed advocates of free speech.