Second SCMP reporter dropped out of contact in China last year, sources say | Media News

Second SCMP reporter dropped out of contact in China last year, sources say | Media News

A Hong Kong reporter who has been unreachable since travelling to China more than one month ago is the second journalist at her newspaper to have a lengthy unexplained absence from work in as many years, according to multiple people familiar with the situation. Minnie Chan, a reporter with the…

Second SCMP reporter dropped out of contact in China last year, sources say | Media News

Hong Kong journalist missing after reporting trip to China, report says | Media News

Kyodo News says South China Morning Post reporter Minnie Chan became unreachable after attending forum in late October. A reporter with Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post has gone missing in China after a work trip, a Japanese news outlet has reported, raising fears that she has been detained by…

Palestine advocates decry MSNBC’s cancellation of Mehdi Hasan news show | Media News

Palestine advocates decry MSNBC’s cancellation of Mehdi Hasan news show | Media News

Channel president says change aims to put network in ‘better position’ for the 2024 US elections, The Hill reports. Washington, DC – MSNBC has cancelled Mehdi Hasan’s weekend TV programme, sparking anger from many Palestinian rights supporters who consider the progressive host a rare critic of Israeli policies on United…

Russian court extends detention of WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich | Freedom of the Press News

Russian court extends detention of WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich | Freedom of the Press News

The Wall Street Journal has denounced the continued detention of its reporter as a ‘brazen and outrageous attack’ on free press. Russia will keep American reporter Evan Gershkovich in custody for another two months as he awaits trial for espionage, a Moscow court has ruled, heightening concerns about the fate…

Mexican journalists freed days after being abducted in southern province | Media News

Mexican journalists freed days after being abducted in southern province | Media News

Reporters Silvia Nayssa Arce, Alberto Sanchez and Marco Antonio Toledo have been released unharmed, officials say. Three Mexican journalists, who were abducted over the past week, have been released after authorities launched search operations in the southern province of Guerrero, according to the state attorney general’s office. The state’s prosecutor…

Five dream guests for ESPN’s Kay-Rod cast for peak ‘mischief’
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Five dream guests for ESPN’s Kay-Rod cast for peak ‘mischief’

Alex Rodriguez and Michael Kay did not wish to name specific dream guests for their ESPN Kay-Rod broadcasts, so we are taking it upon ourselves to do so for them. On a conference call to promote their alternative “Sunday Night Baseball” telecasts for the upcoming season, The Post asked Kay…

New York Times spins Democratic conspiracy theory as fact
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New York Times spins Democratic conspiracy theory as fact

When is a single-source story good enough for The New York Times? When it appears to confirm a 40-year-old Democratic conspiracy theory. Peter Baker, the Times’ chief White House correspondent, published Saturday a bombshell report, “A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-Election.” It was indeed merely one…

Girl, 9, killed in Florida shooting rampage remembered as a ‘true joy’
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Girl, 9, killed in Florida shooting rampage remembered as a ‘true joy’

The 9-year-old Florida girl killed in the shooting rampage Wednesday was remembered by her devastated family as an excellent student, “amazing gymnast” and “true joy” whose life was cut short by “senseless violence.” T’yonna Major, 9, was killed and her mom, Brandi Major, was wounded by Keith Moses, 19, after…

Don Lemon returning to CNN show Wednesday after ‘frank’ talk with boss
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Don Lemon returning to CNN show Wednesday after ‘frank’ talk with boss

CNN anchor Don Lemon will be back on the air Wednesday morning and will undergo “formal training” after his return over sexist comments he made last week, according to multiple reports. The development was shared with staff in a Monday night memo from CNN boss Chris Licht, who said he had…