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The Las Vegas police have searched the residence of a local politician in connection to the murder of an investigative journalist.

The journalist who has been reporting on the R Kelly sexual abuse allegations since 2000, Jim DeRogatis, filed a motion yesterday seeking to quash a subpoena from the defence in the musician’s current trial that orders him to testify.It was Chicago-based DeRogatis who, in the early 2000s, was sent a copy of the tape that seemed to show Kelly sexually abusing a fourteen year old girl, named as ‘Jane’ in the current trial. At that point the journalist had already reported on allegations that Kelly was using his fame to meet and sexually abuse underage girls.DeRogatis handed the tape over to Chicago police instigating the first criminal investigation into Kelly’s alleged abuse of women and teenagers.

K.J. Yossman BBC journalist Clive Myrie has called on whoever is appointed the new secretary of state for culture under Liz Truss to “make a renewed commitment to quality public service broadcasting, at the BBC and Channel 4.” Truss was appointed Prime Minister earlier today, replacing Boris Johnson. She is expected to appoint a new cabinet, including a new secretary of state for the department of culture, sport and media, who will take over from incumbent minister Nadine Dorries. Delivering the Royal Television Society’s Steve Hewlett Memorial Lecture at the University of Westminster on Monday evening, Myrie also championed the BBC’s commitment to impartiality, in comments that could potentially be interpreted as a rebuttal to his former colleague Emily Maitlis’s Edinburgh TV Festival lecture two weeks ago.

This cat is mad as heck and not going to take it anymore.

Savannah Guthrie is remembering the son of one of her NBC News colleagues.

Tragic Granada Reports journalist Teresa McMahon was "a vulnerable individual locked in a coercive and controlling relationship," described as "toxic" a second pre-inquest review into her death has revealed.

Nicola Sturgeon has condemned the abuse aimed at a BBC journalist before a Tory hustings in Perth as "disgraceful".

John le Carré and Seamus Heaney, before becoming a full-time author and film-maker. After several lean years, his first success as an independent producer and screenwriter was with Murder By the Book (1991), which won the American ACE award for the best international film on cable television. But by 1993 he again found himself in low water.

A journalist has described the shocking moment an 'aggressive drunk' hurled vile homophobic abuse at him and a friend then shoved him into the side of a taxi.

Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who became a symbol of fearless dissent when she interrupted a live TV broadcast in March to protest her country’s invasion of Ukraine, has been placed under house arrest in Moscow pending a trial related to a fresh anti-war protest in July.

Having moved from Korea to the San Fransico neighborhood of Chinatown in the 1960s as the only Korean kid in the community with no English communication skills, Chol Soo Lee found himself known as an “at-risk youth.” A decade later, the 20-something immigrant was racially profiled and convicted of the murder of local gang member Yip Yee Tak.  READ MORE: ‘Free Chol Soo Lee’ Review: An Unflinching Portrait Of The Trauma Inflicted On An Innocent Man [Sundance] While Lee maintained his innocence, being convicted of first-degree murder landed him in one of California’s most dangerous and violent facilities for life.

Longtime ESPN journalist M.A. Voepel has come out as transgender.

arrest on Sunday and her security going forward. Sullivan later tweeted about their conversation.I called @AlinejadMasih on behalf of President Biden to express concern about her safety and thank her for her human rights advocacy.

The 23-year-old suspect was arrested by NYPD after he drove through a stop sign and was found driving without a license. According to The New York Times, law enforcement saw the suspect waiting in his car outside Alinejad’s home for two days prior to the arrest, and later searches of the vehicle found the loaded machine gun with additional rounds and more than $1,000 in cash in a briefcase. When questioned by authorities, the suspect confessed that the gun was his and that he was “looking for someone” in the apartment, though he did not mention Alinejad by name.

NBC News feted Pete Williams with a send off at Cosmos Club in Washington as the longtime Supreme Court and Justice Department correspondent prepares to retire at the end of the month.

Deadline has hired former Business Insider Entertainment Reporter Zac Ntim as International Film Reporter, based in London.

Vanity Fair reporter Sam Kashner is setting the record straight on his 2017 interview with Meghan Markle, which was written about in a new book by British biographer Tom Bower, “Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors.”

An excerpt from a bombshell new book about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, published in the London Times, claims that the Duchess of Sussex wasn’t happy with a Vanity Fair journalist after her entire October 2017 cover story‘s focus shifted from her acting and philanthropy to her relationship with Harry.

Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian journalist who daringly interrupted a live TV broadcast to protest her country’s invasion of Ukraine, was briefly detained by Russian authorities for a second time over the weekend.

Celebrity journalist Chaunce Hayden sat down with Ivana Trump who shared insights into her life, including if she had any regrets marrying Donald Trump, living with and without wealth and what the public's biggest misconception is about herself. Hayden is the former publisher of Steppin' Out magazine who met Ivana several times over the past 20 years. He interviewed 'kind and friendly' Ivana in 2016 for New York-based Metropolis Nights magazine and described her as 'smart as a whip. ''I see a lot of Ivana in Ivanka. Ivana was a lot of things, but most of all I think she would want to be remembered as a mom who adored her kids,' Hayden said. 'She faced hard times with elegance and most of all she was an awesome mom. 'Ivana Trump died on Thursday of a suspected cardiac arrest after being found 'unconscious and unresponsive' in her New York City townhouse. She was 73. Here, DailyMail. com recaps that 2016 interview.  Chaunce Hayden: How would you describe yourself?Ivana Trump: Well I did come from a small town (laughing) but I didn't come from what you would call modest means.

Elspeth Tavares – founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of The Business of Film, an independent film industry trade publication of over 40 years – died this week peacefully in her London home following a short illness. An award-winning journalist, member of the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) and founding member of Women in Film, London, Tavares is survived by her son and grandson. Her age was not provided with the announcement.

Tell a friend.For the full story of my reinstatment, including @Twitter's acknowledgment of error, see my Substack.https://t.co/SgXfocIFiQHis latest tweet since regaining his account follows the trend of his questioning of the dangers of COVID-19 and the success of vaccines.“Don’t think of it as a vaccine. Think of it – at best – as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS,” he wrote.

What. The. Eff.

Charm, a sharp wit, and a wicked sense of humour can take you a long way as a journalist. Andy Nott, the former Manchester Evening News reporter, had all three in spades.

The body of Lancaster journalist Dom Phillips has been returned to his family in Brazil. He and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were killed earlier this month while returning from an expedition in the Amazon.

Science Guy star Bill Nye has married journalist and author Liza Mundy. The couple tied the knot in front of family and friends in the Haupt Garden outside the Smithsonian Institute’s Castle in Washington, DC, last month, according to People.

Bill Nye, the married guy!The star is officially a newlywed after marrying journalist and author Liza Mundy in May at the Castle Building's Haupt Garden at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., People confirmed. In photos captured by their wedding photographer, Barack Obama's former White House photographer, Pete Souza, the couple can be seen exchanging vows outside in front of  star Robert Picardo, who officiated the ceremony. «Yes it’s true, I’m now officially a wedding photographer,» Souza wrote in part of an Instagram caption. «But I buried the lede: congrats to Bill Nye and Liza Mundy.⁣»The bride donned a v-neck satin gown with a fishtail high-low hem and embellished with a beaded belt.

After a seven-year run on The Good Wife, three-time Emmy winner Julianna Margulies is more selective than ever about where she lands. In joining The Morning Show as Laura Peterson, an anchor who, after being outed in the ’90s and losing her position at the titular show, re-emerges as one of the country’s top journalists, Margulies says the opportunity to portray an LGBTQ character at the top of her game was too good to pass up. Here, she discusses her chemistry with on-screen love interest Reese Witherspoon, a powerplay with Jennifer Aniston and the feeling of portraying extreme confidence.

Russia’s foreign minister on Wednesday banned around 121 Australians, including out gay ABC journalist Patricia Karvelas, from entering the country “indefinitely” over what it termed a “Russophobic agenda”. The list included prominent Australian journalists, mining magnates Gina Rinehart and Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest, ABC chairperson Ita Buttrose and South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas.The foreing ministry’s statement said that “entry to the Russian Federation for these persons is closed on an indefinite basis in response to the growing sanctions of the Australian government, which apply to an increasing number of Russian citizens – both officials and their families, as well as representatives of the business community and the media.”I’m not sanctioned in Australia so I can bring you @RNBreakfast https://t.co/QT0ZaqAWEd #auspol pic.twitter.com/pYOAxFwRbF— Patricia Karvelas (@PatsKarvelas) June 16, 2022The RN Breakfast host said she woke up to the news of being added to Russia’s ‘stop-list’ early in the morning.  “Waking to news of being sanctioned by Russia at 3:30am was a hallucination reality dreamscape I didn’t imagine for my Friday,” Karvelas posted on . Karvelas also posted a video from the ABC studio.

Rebel Wilson is owed an apology. This is… not quite it…

Wilson revealed on Thursday that she is dating Los Angeles clothing designer Ramona Agruma. But on Saturday, Hornery wrote an opinion column that revealed she had only done so after he’d emailed her to inform her she had two days to comment before he reported the relationship himself. Hornery also attempted to imply that Wilson had somehow behaved unethically and hypocritically, writing without any apparent irony: “Considering how bitterly Wilson had complained about poor journalism standards when she successfully sued Woman’s Day for defamation, her choice to ignore our discreet, genuine and honest queries was, in our view, underwhelming.”Following an understandable global backlash, that column was taken down and has now been replaced with one entitled “I made mistakes over Rebel Wilson, and will learn from them.” “I genuinely regret that Rebel has found this hard.

You’ve probably already read that Rebel Wilson has come out and confirmed that she’s in a relationship with a woman, but we’ve sadly just learned she didn’t get to do it on her own terms.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFrédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, a 32-year old French journalist, was killed on Monday, while covering the war in Ukraine for the French news channel BFMTV. His death was confirmed by French President Emmanuel Macron on his Twitter account and reported by many news outlets.Leclerc-Imhoff is one of the many journalists who have been wounded or killed in Ukraine since the country was invaded by Russia on Feb.

tweeted, revealing Leclerc-Imhoff was on a humanitarian bus, alongside civilians, when he was killed.Macron continued: “I share the sorrow of the family, loved ones and colleagues of Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, to whom I address my condolences.”Leclerc-Imhoff was 32, and worked as a cameraperson for BFMTV. The station also tweeted their condolences to his loved ones calling him a “courageous” journalist.He had worked for the company for six years.

A French journalist has been killed while reporting from Ukraine, the French President Emmanuel Macron has said. Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff died while attempting to escape Russian bombs, Macron tweeted this afternoon in Europe.

Ash Sarkar has said that Laurence Fox asked her what colour her “knickers” were. On Friday (27 May), Sarkar posted to Twitter relaying an alleged interaction she had with the Lewis star. “So, I got to ask Laurence Fox in person today who’s funding his defamation defence,” she wrote.