I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The rise of online journalism is reflected in the Committee to Protect Journalists annual prison census report which was released today.
At least 56 online journalists are jailed worldwide, according to CPJ’s census, a tally that surpasses the number of print journalists for the first time. The number of imprisoned online journalists has steadily increased since CPJ recorded the first jailed Internet writer in its 1997 census. Print reporters, editors, and photographers make up the next largest professional category, with 53 cases in 2008. Television and radio journalists and documentary filmmakers constitute the rest.
CPJ reports that allegations such as subversion, divulging state secrets and acting against the national interest are the most common charges used to imprison journalists, though some imprisoned journalists are never charged at all.
China is reported to have imprisoned the most journalists, but for the fifth year in a row the U.S. is also cited.
The U.S. is currently holding Reuters photographer Ibrahim Jassam without charge in Iraq, CPJ reports, and in recent years, “U.S. military authorities have jailed dozens of journalists in Iraq — some for days, others for months at a time — without charge or due process. No charges have ever been substantiated in these cases.”
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