For the sixth consecutive year, students from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University outperformed all other schools in the Society of Professional Journalists’ Mark of Excellence national awards competition.

LHASA, China - China on Wednesday announced the surrender of hundreds of people over anti-government riots among Tibetans and allowed the first group of foreign journalists to visit the regional capital since the violence.

LONDON - A court fined Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty $1,400 Wednesday for assaulting a British Broadcasting Corp. journalist earlier this year.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A previously unknown Palestinian group released the first video Wednesday of two kidnapped Fox News journalists and demanded that Muslim prisoners in U.S. jails be released within 72 hours in exchange for the men.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three massive vehicle bombs exploded Monday near the Palestine Hotel, home to many Western journalists, killing at least 20 people. Dramatic TV pictures showed one of the bombers driving a cement truck through the concrete blast walls that guard the hotel, then blowing up his vehicle.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three massive vehicle bombs exploded Monday near the Palestine Hotel, home to many Western journalists, killing at least 20 people. Dramatic TV pictures showed one of the bombers driving a cement truck through the concrete blast walls that guard the hotel, then blowing up his vehicle.

If you parse the legalese in the CIA-leak investigation, maybe The New York Time’s Judith Miller should be in jail. But the outcome, with a representative of the nation’s pre-eminent newspaper locked up for a story she reported on but never wrote, is ridiculous and embarrassing.

We have expressed discomfort with a reporter having the absolute right to grant a source confidentiality. We do believe, however, that such confidentiality should only be abrogated in the narrowest, most carefully designed and monitored circumstances, in certain matters directly related to national security.

January 13, 2005

Members of the Protect Arizona NOW initiative committee said they will no longer speak to Spanish news outlets about their proposed law that targets illegal immigrants.

LONDON -- Michael Jackson is set to release a video of the journalist who made a controversial TV documentary about the King of Pop, showing the reporter praising Jackson's skills as a parent.

It smells as if the wood were still burning, but no fire is in sight. Six palm trees are so charred they look like they’re made of wrought iron.

It smells as if the wood were still burning, but no fire is in sight. Six palm trees are so charred they look like they’re made of wrought iron.