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News Headlines CRONKITE RECOVERING AFTER ACHILLES SURGERY Read more: Posted on: 2003-12-31 A Vietnamese journalist was jailed for seven years after being found guilty of spying. Nguyen Vu Binh had posted articles on the internet, criticising a border agreement between Vietnam and China. In a trial that was cloaked in secrecy, the 35-year-old admitted having links with foreign organisations, but denied espionage. Read more: Posted on: 2003-12-31 A Romanian journalist was seriously hurt after being attacked near his home. Csondy Szoltan works for the Hargita Nepe newspaper. The attack came less than a month after a similar one on another journalist, Ino Ardelean, of the daily Evenimentul Zilei. The South East Europe Media Organisation called on the Romanian authorities to conduct an immediate investigation. Read more: Posted on: 2003-12-30 Kidnapped Indonesian TV reporter Ersa Siregar has died in a gun battle between government troops and separatist rebels in Aceh province. Siregar was taken hostage in July along with cameraman Ferry Santoro. Both worked for Rajawali Citra Televisi (RCTI). Santoro is still missing. Meanwhile, Costa Rican journalist Ivannia Mora Rodríguez was shot dead by two killers on motorcycles as she sat at the wheel of her car. She wrote on economic issues for a number of publications. Its thought her murder could be connected with her work. Read more: Posted on: 2003-12-30 The Hutton report into the death of weapons inspector Dr David Kelly could end in the resignations of senior BBC figures, according to one of the corporations top executives. Director of policy and legal affairs Caroline Thompson said the BBC had rather spectacularly had to accept that Andrew Gilligans weapons of mass destruction story was not entirely correct. She added: The BBC will see what Hutton says and then decide what is the appropriate course of action to take on it. It does not rule them (resignations) in or out. Dr Kelly killed himself after being revealed as the source for Gilligans claim that the British Government sexed up the dossier. Read more: Posted on: 2003-12-30 Georgian TV station Rustavi 2 came under rocket attack this week. No-one was injured, although the building, in the capital Tbilisi, was damaged. An anti-tank rocket launcher was found 200 metres away. The station took a strong pro-opposition stance during the revolution that led to the overthrow of Edvard Shevardnadze last month. Read more: Posted on: 2003-12-29 The war in Iraq was the most important news story of 2003, according to a poll of journalists worldwide. Three Iraq-related stories appeared in the top five of an Associated Press poll of its subscribers in broadcast and print journalism outside of the United States. Top of the list was the war itself, followed in second place by the SARS outbreak. Other top ten stories included the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Columbia space shuttle disaster. Among US news organisations, the Iraq war still led the field, followed in second spot by the Columbia tragedy. The poll was concluded before the capture of Saddam Hussein on December 13. Read more: Posted on: 2003-12-29 Fox News Network is being sued for $12m by the parents of murdered six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey. The youngster was beaten and strangled six years ago in the basement of the familys home in Boulder, Colorado. Parents John and Patsy Ramsey allege a Fox News story to mark the sixth anniversary of the childs death incorrectly made them appear suspects in the unsolved murder case. Read more: Posted on: 2003-12-29 Two French journalists, who were arrested on charges of breaching their visa conditions, have been freed on bail by a Pakistani court. Marc Epstein and Jean-Paul Guilloteau, of the French weekly LExpress, were arrested after allegedly visiting the city of Quetta without permission. Read more: Posted on: 2003-12-24 The family of an al-Jazeera correspondent have been refused permission to visit him in jail after he was detained in a raid on the stations Sudanese offices. Islam Salih was arrested the day after security forces raided the satellite channels Khartoum bureau and closed it down. Salihs wife and family do not know where he is being held and have been told by the authorities that they cannot see him. Before his arrest Salih received threats as a result of al-Jazeeras political coverage of the region. The arrest and the closure of the TV offices have been condemned by human and media rights groups. Read more:
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