Read more journalist stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/8183/journalist.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:38:52 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74700/as-massacre-toll-hits-46-philippines-declares-emergency.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA state of emergency has been declared in the southern Philippines after local police found 22 bodies buried in mass graves, bringing the toll in the slaughter of political supporters and journalists to 46. The convoy traveling to register a candidate for a provincial governor was stopped and attacked by...http://www.newser.com/story/74700/as-massacre-toll-hits-46-philippines-declares-emergency.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 24 Nov 2009 5:03:40 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73793/student-journos-in-court-over-murder-investigation.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA group of Illinois journalism students found themselves in court yesterday, accused of flirting with and paying off sources during a 2003-2006 investigation for the Medill Innocence Project. The Northwestern students claim to have uncovered evidence exonerating Anthony McKinney, convicted in 1982 of murdering a security guard. Both sides went...http://www.newser.com/story/73793/student-journos-in-court-over-murder-investigation.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Nov 2009 10:40:17 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73520/palin-will-headline-gridiron-dinner.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSarah Palin has accepted an invitation to speak at the Gridiron Club's winter dinner. She'll address the high-profile journalists' group at its Dec. 5 gathering; Rep. Barney Frank is the Democratic speaker. Though Palin is making a series of appearances to promote her book, Going Rogue, the Gridiron dinner is...http://www.newser.com/story/73520/palin-will-headline-gridiron-dinner.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 06 Nov 2009 17:10:24 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72669/where-bush-was-bashed-obama-gets-free-pass.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSupporters of George Bush are miffed about the passes the media has given President Obama for trespasses the former president would likely have been excoriated for. “We have a joke about it. We’re going to start a website: IfBushHadDoneThat.com,” former Bush counselor Ed Gillespie tells Politico. Some examples of...http://www.newser.com/story/72669/where-bush-was-bashed-obama-gets-free-pass.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 27 Oct 2009 14:35:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72547/iraq-afghan-war-reporter-said-to-be-a-spy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA war correspondent whose rescues in the Mideast have cost several lives is a spy for Washington, Gawker claims, declining to name names or reveal, for "blazingly obvious reasons," the sources for this report, except to say that they are current and former special forces troops. "We don't do that...http://www.newser.com/story/72547/iraq-afghan-war-reporter-said-to-be-a-spy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 26 Oct 2009 3:45:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70790/new-safires-and-cronkites-needed-not-ranters-noonan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagElder statesmen of the media like Walter Cronkite and William Safire are dropping at an alarming rate, and their replacements need to step up, writes Peggy Noonan. Ranters on the right and the left—like MSNBC's Ed Schultz, who says Republicans "want to see you dead"—are proliferating, she notes,...http://www.newser.com/story/70790/new-safires-and-cronkites-needed-not-ranters-noonan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 02 Oct 2009 9:11:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69020/salvador-cop-gangsters-busted-in-filmmakers-murder.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagEl Salvador has arrested four gang members and a police officer for last week's murder of French photojournalist and filmmaker Christian Poveda, CNN reports. Another man who allegedly ordered the killing is already in prison, authorities say. The gangsters belong to the same Mara 18 gang that was the subject...http://www.newser.com/story/69020/salvador-cop-gangsters-busted-in-filmmakers-murder.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 10 Sep 2009 5:06:22 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69006/times-scribe-recounts-ordeal-as-taliban-embed-at-gunpoint.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFour days in the hands of the Taliban often felt more like a tour of insurgent territory than a hostage ordeal, writes rescued New York Times journalist Stephen Farrell. The militants struck his interpreter, Sultan Munadi, with a rifle when the two were seized, but did not mistreat them afterward—...http://www.newser.com/story/69006/times-scribe-recounts-ordeal-as-taliban-embed-at-gunpoint.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 10 Sep 2009 3:01:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68520/russian-high-court-reopens-case-of-murdered-journalist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRussia's supreme court ordered a new investigation into the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, the crusading journalist whose killers have not yet been found, reports the Guardian . The move received a cautious welcome from Politkovskaya's lawyer, who welcomed a new manhunt but said, "Whether the general prosecutor will use this opportunity,...http://www.newser.com/story/68520/russian-high-court-reopens-case-of-murdered-journalist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 03 Sep 2009 7:47:41 CDT