Journalists

China's Peng Shuai, right, watches the women's freestyle skiing big air finals with Thomas Bach, center, President of the International Olympic Committee at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Journalist who spoke to Peng Shuai says doubts remain

By John Leicester Feb. 08, 2022 05:14 AM EST

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, activists wearing masks of the IOC President Thomas Bach and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose in front of the Olympic Rings during a street protest against the holding of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, in Dharmsala, India. The IOC has declined several recent requests to move the Olympics out of Beijing. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia, File)

Beijing Games: Sports coverage fine, other things maybe not

By Stephen Wade Aug. 02, 2021 02:24 AM EDT

Bangladeshi artists carry an artwork during a protest against the arrest of Rozina Islam in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, May 20, 2021. Islam, a journalist in Bangladesh known for her strong reporting on official corruption has been arrested on charges of violating a colonial-era official secrets act which carries a possible death penalty. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Bangladeshi journalist known for unearthing graft gets bail

By Julhas Alam May. 23, 2021 02:40 AM EDT

Indian court acquits prominent journalist of rape charge

May. 21, 2021 04:38 AM EDT

Bangladeshi journalist Rozina Islam, center, is escorted by police to a court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, May 18, 2021. Police in Bangladesh's capital have arrested the prominent journalist on charges of stealing and photographing sensitive state information. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Bangladesh arrests journalist known for unearthing graft

By Julhas Alam May. 18, 2021 02:45 AM EDT

An employee unloads the newly arrived coronavirus vaccines from Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm at the logistics base set up to in the parking lot of the government office in the 13th district of Budapest, Hungary, Monday, March 29, 2021. (Noemi Bruzak/MTI via AP)

Hungarian journalists demand access to COVID wards

By Justin Spike Mar. 31, 2021 06:45 AM EDT

Soldiers walk towards anti-coup protesters during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar on Tuesday March 30, 2021. Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha denied Tuesday that his country’s security forces have sent villagers back to Myanmar who fled from military airstrikes and said his government is ready to shelter anyone who is escaping fighting. (AP Photo)

Freed Polish journalist urges pressure put on Myanmar junta

By Monika Scislowska Mar. 30, 2021 01:23 PM EDT

FILE - This undated family file photo shows Associated Press journalist Thein Zaw in Yangon, Myanmar. A court in Myanmar extended on Friday, March 12, 2021, the pretrial detention of an Associated Press journalist who was arrested while covering demonstrations against a coup. He is facing a charge that could send him to prison for three years. His next hearing will be on March 24.(Thein Zaw family via AP, File)

AP journalist, other media workers return to Myanmar court

Mar. 23, 2021 11:22 PM EDT

Myanmar police talk to people gathering outside the Kamayut court in Yangon, Myanmar Friday, March 12, 2021. A court in Myanmar is scheduled to hold a hearing on Friday for an Associated Press journalist detained while covering demonstrations against the military's seizure of power last month. He is facing a charge that could send him to prison for three years. (AP Photo)

Myanmar court extends detention of AP journalist

Mar. 12, 2021 08:09 AM EST

Karima Brown is photographed during a protest in Johannesburg, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. Tributes from journalists and politicians are coming in for prominent South African journalist Karima Brown who died of COVID-19 on Thursday, March 4, 2021. Her family said in a statement that Brown had been hospitalized after falling and will be buried Thursday according to Islamic burial rites. (AP Photo)

Tributes as leading South African reporter dies of COVID-19

By Mogomotsi Magome Mar. 04, 2021 09:54 AM EST

Rhiannon Potkey displays sports equipment Jan. 30, 2021, in Knoxville, Tenn. Goods4Greatness, the nonprofit started by Potkey, works to get much-needed gear to low-income children and teens to make sure the high cost of equipment doesn't stop their athletic dreams. (AP Photo/Teresa Walker)

Journalist gets much-needed sports gear to low-income kids

By Teresa M. Walker Feb. 14, 2021 01:09 PM EST

Pleasant Ridge School Nurse Gina Shield administers a coronavirus vaccine Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2021 to a school employee on the gymnasium floor at Nevada Union High School where 1,004 vaccines are planned to be administered through the day today. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP)

People desperate for COVID-19 guides seek local journalists

By David Bauder Jan. 30, 2021 09:11 AM EST

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Journalists booted from Marjorie Taylor Greene town hall

By Ben Nadler Jan. 28, 2021 04:47 PM EST

FILE - Tom Brokaw appears on his first day as host of NBC's "Today" show in New York on Aug. 30, 1976. Brokaw says he is retiring from NBC News after working at the network for 55 years. The author of "The Greatest Generation" is now 80 years old and his television appearances have been limited in recent years as he fought cancer. He says he will continue writing books and articles. (AP Photo, File)

Retiring Brokaw: Journalists should get out of power centers

By David Bauder Jan. 28, 2021 09:03 AM EST

Zimbabwean journalist Hopwell Chin'ono arrives at the magistrates courts in Harare, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. On Friday, Zimbabwe police arrested the prominent journalist for the third time in six months. Chin’ono posted on his Twitter account that police had picked him from his house and said they were charging him with “communicating falsehoods.” (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwean journalist released on bail after weeks in prison

By Farai Mutsaka Jan. 27, 2021 06:22 AM EST

Members of the Washington National Guard stand at a sundial near the Legislative Building, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Governors in some states have called out the National Guard, declared states of emergency and closed their capitols over concerns about potentially violent protests. Though details remain murky, demonstrations are expected at state capitols beginning Sunday and leading up to President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Journalists prepare for protests where they could be targets

By David Bauder Jan. 16, 2021 10:10 AM EST

FILE - Norah O'Donnell attends Variety's third annual "Salute to Service" celebration on Nov. 6, 2019, in New York. The CBS Evening News anchor says she's "never covered a year in my entire journalistic career like this last year." From the ongoing COVID global pandemic and George Floyd protests around the world to the contested 2020 presidential and last week's storming of the U.S. capitol by armed insurgents, O'Donnell concluded that "journalism is more important than ever." (Photo by Jason Mendez/Invision/AP, File)

Norah O'Donnell: 'Journalism is more important than ever'

By John Carucci Jan. 13, 2021 01:54 PM EST

Jailed Zimbabwean journalist urges isolation due to virus

By Farai Mutsaka Jan. 12, 2021 09:19 AM EST

Arrested Zimbabwe journalist in prison isolation over COVID

By Farai Mutsaka Jan. 09, 2021 10:54 AM EST

Zimbabwe police arrest prominent journalist Chin’ono

By Farai Mutsaka Jan. 08, 2021 10:24 AM EST
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe police on Friday arrested prominent journalist Hopewell Chin’ono for the third time in six months, his lawyer said. ...