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The WikiLeaks organization and a handful of journalists asked a federal judge Wednesday to order greater transparency in the court-martial of an Army private who has acknowledged sending reams of classified document to the WikiLeaks website.

The rally will take place at 12 p.m. before the MassDOT board of directors meeting.

A group of journalists and freedom of information campaigners are suing in federal court in Baltimore to get greater access to proceedings in the military trial of Army Pfc.

Ukrainian journalists gather outside the Interior Ministry to protest police inaction and refusal to properly investigate and prosecute the beating of a reporter and a photographer.

Toronto-based freelance reporter Naheed Mustafa always paid her own way when she reported from abroad.

When the Sun-Times decided to shrink its payroll in 1998 by firing Washington reporter Basil Talbott, former senator Paul Simon and future governor Rod Blagojevich both protested publicly, and Jesse Jackson called the editor of the paper.

Investigative journalists with Scripps News Service have discovered a major security lapse, in turn accessing the private data of tens of thousands of cell phone customers in the United States.

Editor's note: LZ Granderson, who writes a weekly column for CNN.com, was named journalist of the year by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and was a 2011 Online Journalism Award finalist for commentary.

The White House Correspondents' Association said Tuesday that two recent cases in which the Obama administration went after reporters' phone and email records show the government may be getting "far too aggressive" in tracking journalists.

Matthew Belloni and Stephen Galloway have been nominated for print journalist and entertainment journalist of the year, respectively, while THR.com earned a nomination for best news website.

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The prime minister of Romania this week instructed authorities to investigate an apparent anti-Semitic assault on a journalist in Bucharest.

Mikhail Beketov, a Russian journalist who was savagely beaten in 2008, died in the town of Khimki, near Moscow, 8 April after choking on a piece of food, RIA Novosti reports .

Ugandan police disabled an independent newspaper's printing press after forcibly entering its premises to look for evidence against an army general who recently questioned the president's alleged plan to have his son succeed him, witnesses said Monday.

The prestigious awards, held at the Park Lane Hilton, in London, celebrated the very best in financial journalism and communications from the previous 12 months.

Citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, show flames rising from a car that was attacked by Syrian government forces, in Bustan al-Qaser neighborhood, Aleppo, Syria, May 20, 2013.

The United States on Monday expressed concern over defamation charges brought against two Egyptian journalists critical of President Mohamed Mursi and called on the government to condemn actions that stifle freedom of expression.

The Justice Department obtained a portfolio of information about a Fox News correspondent's conversations and visits as part of an investigation into a possible leak, The Washington Post reported Monday -- in the latest example of the government seizing records of journalists.

Every year on May 3, journalists commemorate World Press Freedom Day. For Geoffrey Wokulira Ssebagala, everyday is a day to advocate for the rights of journalists so that they can enjoy this freedom.

"A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth." -- from "The Things They Carried," by Tim O'Brien "When I was growing up, I had a friend whose father was a carpenter," Mike Daisey says, talking by phone from Seattle.