The multinational deal set some two dozen people free, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and corporate security executive Paul Whelan.
Hundreds of Nine Publishing's staff will walk off the job today ahead of the Olympic Opening Ceremony as part of a strike after their pay demands were rejected.
He was tonight named Federal Press Gallery Journalist of the Year for the third time, in an announcement at the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery Midwinter Ball at Parliament House in Canberra.
The Israeli government has reversed course hours after it blocked the AP's live video of Gaza and faced mounting criticism for interfering with independent journalism.
A Moscow court ordered a Russian journalist who covered the trials of late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny and other dissidents to remain in custody pending a trial on charges of extremism.
Police in Spain have arrested a man on suspicion of sexual assault after he appeared to touch a TV journalist on the bottom as she was reporting live from the streets of Madrid.
Indigenous television presenter Stan Grant has accepted a new job to help improve integrity in media and combat misinformation after stepping away permanently from his role as the host of ABC's Q+A.
A lawyer for Prince Harry finished setting out the royal's case against a newspaper publisher by quizzing a former tabloid reporter about information inserted into stories by then-editor Piers Morgan.
Evan Gershkovich, a 31-year-old American citizen, was ordered held until August 30. He had been arrested in March on espionage charges on a reporting trip in Russia.
TikTok's parent company ByteDance has fired four employees who improperly accessed the personal data of two journalists on the platform, a TikTok spokesperson confirmed.
The deadliest year in at least three decades for Mexican journalists and media workers is nearing a close, with 15 slayings — a perilous situation underlined by a brazen near-miss attack this week on one of the country's most prominent journalists.
"Elon says he is a free speech champion and he is banning journalists for exercising free speech. I think that calls into question his commitment," one journalist said.
A journalist who ran an online local news program has been shot to death in southern Mexico, making him the 15th media worker killed so far this year nationwide.
Search teams in Brazil found what appear to be human remains near the area where British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Pereira were headed before they went missing, police said Friday.
A Russian journalist working for the independent news site The Insider was killed in a shelling incident in Kyiv, the outlet said in a statement on Wednesday.
A Russian TV news editor who held up an anti-war sign interrupting the major state television channel's news broadcast has reportedly been fined in court after disappearing for several hours.