Photo credit: Caroline Tompkins From ELLE Almost every weekday for six years, Christie Smythe took the F train from Park Slope downtown to her desk at Brooklyn’s federal court, in a pressroom hidden on the far side of a snack bar. Smythe, who covered white-collar crime for Bloomberg News, wore […]
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Iran executes journalist who encouraged 2017 protests
Ruhollah Zam, a former opposition figure who had lived in exile in France and had been implicated in anti-government protests, speaks during his trial at Iran’s Revolutionary Court in Tehran on June 2, 2020. ALI SHIRBAND | AFP | Getty Images Iran on Saturday executed a once-exiled journalist over his […]
Journalist Maria Ressa convicted of “cyber libel” in Philippines
Internationally acclaimed Filipino journalist Maria Ressa and Reynaldo Santos Jr., a former staffer at Rappler, the online news service founded by Ressa, where she serves as CEO and executive editor, were found guilty of cyber libel by a Manila trial court in the Philippines on Monday. Ressa and Santos were […]
Journalist Maria Ressa found guilty of “cyber libel”
Journalists Maria Ressa and Rey Santos Jr. on Monday were found guilty of cyber libel by the Manila Trial Court in the Philippines, according to Rappler, the news site founded by Ressa, where she served as CEO and executive editor. Ressa and Santos were hit with prison sentences of six […]