A journalist has won her case against Australia’s national broadcaster, with a court ruling she was unfairly sacked over a social media post about the war in Gaza. Antoinette Lattouf said the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) fired her without “proper basis” or “due process” when her five-day contract as a fill-in radio presenter was cut...
The man accused of being responsible for holding the missing American journalist Austin Tice has claimed that ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ordered his execution, security sources have told the BBC. Major General Bassam Al Hassan is a former commander in the Republican Guards who was part of President Assad’s inner circle. He was also...
BBC correspondent Yogita Limaye reports from the scene of a plane crash in Ahmedabad, India, where you can see the scale of damage on the ground. An Air India plane crashed in a residential area near Ahmedabad airport earlier today, just moments after taking off. Some 204 bodies have been recovered from the crash site...
Getty Images Frederick Forsyth, who has died at the age of 86, wrote meticulously researched thrillers which sold in their millions. A former fighter pilot, journalist and spy, many of his books were based on his own experience. He wove intricate technical details into his stories, without detracting from the lightning pace of his plots....
An Australian foreign correspondent was hit by what was understood to be a rubber bullet while reporting from Los Angeles. Channel Nine’s Lauren Tomasi is seen jumping in pain after the incident in which she was struck in the leg on Sunday. A law enforcement officer can be seen turning towards news cameras and firing...
Josh Baker and Sara Obeidat BBC News Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Top secret intelligence files uncovered by the BBC confirm for the first time that missing American journalist Austin Tice was imprisoned by the regime of the now-deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Former Syrian officials have also confirmed Mr Tice’s detention...
The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate has condemned the arrest of a prominent local journalist by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. Ali al-Samoudi, who has worked extensively with Western media, was detained during a raid on his son’s home in the northern city of Jenin early on Tuesday. The 58-year-old was interrogated for half an...
BBC Yasin Akgul, a photojournalist for AFP, was arrested at his home It was early morning on 23 March when the police came to Yasin Akgul’s door in Istanbul – while his children were still in bed. Just hours before, the Turkish photojournalist had returned home from covering mass anti-government protests. Now he was a...
Watch: ‘Why did they invite me?’ – Goldberg says Trump officials should accept mistake When Jeffrey Goldberg published a bombshell story outlining how some of the most senior US officials had mistakenly shared sensitive information with him, he obtained the biggest scoop of the year. The Atlantic editor also became the prime target for every...
The White House reacted furiously on Wednesday after The Atlantic magazine published messages between national security officials in a Signal group chat in their entirety. Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist who was inadvertently included in the chat among senior cabinet leaders, shared texts in which US defence secretary Pete Hegseth provided sensitive information such as detailed...
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We’re not backing down in the face of Trump’s threats. As Donald Trump is inaugurated a second time, independent media organizations are faced with urgent mandates: Tell the truth more loudly than ever before. Do that work even as our standard modes of distribution (such as social media platforms) are being manipulated and curtailed by...
Israeli forces killed two Palestinian journalists in Gaza on Monday in separate strikes, bringing the total number of Palestinian journalists killed to at least 208 since October 7, 2023, according to a count by Gaza officials. Mohammad Mansour, a correspondent for Palestine Today, was killed along with his wife and child when Israel struck his...