SF Chronicle Reporters to Be Jailed
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Two San Francisco Chronicle reportersÃÂ will beÃÂ jailed Thursday for a maximum 18 months for refusing to testify about who leaked them secret grand jury testimony from Barry Bonds and other elite athletes.
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Protest curbs to be reviewed and greater protection for investigative journalism.
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Kirk Radomski, a former drug distributor who is at the heart of the Mitchell Report will appear in a federal courtroom in San Francisco on Friday to be sentenced for his illegal activities.
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A U.S.-based press freedom watchdog is to honor a Chinese reporter who spent years behind bars after exposing a fraudulent irrigation project, the group said in a statement on Tuesday.
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A court has sentenced an independent rights activist and journalist to six years in jail for extortion amid a sweeping government crackdown on dissidents in the tightly controlled ex-Soviet state.
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HONG KONG, Aug. 31 -- Supporters of a Hong Kong-based reporter expressed outrage after he was sentenced to five years in prison on espionage charges Thursday, and the chief executive of Hong Kong said his administration was "very concerned" about the case.
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Two men who fired on police after a controversial Orange parade was banned are jailed for a total of 27 years.
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A federal judge held reporters from four major news organizations in contempt for refusing to name confidential sources in their reports on a nuclear scientist once accused of being a spy.
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Kirk Radomski, a former drug distributor who was the source at the heart of the Mitchell report, will appear in a federal courtroom in San Francisco on Friday to be sentenced for his illegal activities.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia: A court on Thursday sentenced the editor of Indonesia&#39;s leading news magazine to a year in prison on libel charges, in what critics said was a setback for press freedom.
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A Moscow court jails a journalist for five years in connection with his reporting on the Chechnya conflict.
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The CIA leak trial turned a spotlight on the shifting ground rules for reporters and their editors who more than ever must balance their pursuit of the news with a heightened risk of landing in court.
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SAN FRANCISCO _ With more than 20 reporters from around the country and 40 of his own colleagues there to support him, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Lance Williams explained to a federal judge on Thursday that he has no choice but to ignore a subpoena to reveal his confidential BALCO sources.
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A former editor-in-chief of China's  best-selling newspaper has been sentenced to 12 years in jail  on corruption charges, state media said on Saturday.
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A Chinese court jailed a reporter for   a Singapore newspaper for five years on Thursday on a charge of   spying, the latest in a series of high-profile cases   underscoring China's curbs on the media and dissent.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.  - A Rhode Island television  reporter was sentenced to six months of house arrest on  Thursday for refusing to reveal the source of an undercover  videotape, even though the source identified himself.
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Prosecutors on Tuesday demanded a Jakarta court punish the editor of Playboy Indonesia with a two-year jail term for distributing indecent pictures to the public and making money from them.