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Masahiro Nakai, in 2011, was a boy-band star turned popular TV host.

Japanese TV execs grilled in 10-hour press conference over celebrity ‘cover-up’

Fuji Television organised a press conference to try to salvage its reputation after being accused of protecting a big star. It had a lot to answer.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks at the daily briefing at the White House in Washington.

The new face of the White House is 27 and wants influencers to ask the questions

Karoline Leavitt, the youngest press secretary in White House history, fronted her first briefing flagging that there is a new sheriff in town and change is coming.

  • Michael Koziol
Cecilia Sala, left, an Italian journalist who was detained on Dec. 19 as she was reporting in Iran, is welcomed by Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni as she landed at Rome’ Ciampino airport after being released.

Freed! Italian journalist Sala walks out of Iran prison, returns home

Celilia Sala, 29, was working under a regular journalistic visa when she was detained in Tehran on December 19, accused of “violating the laws of the Islamic Republic”.

  • Crispian Balmer
Jimmy Lai pictured in 2020.

Media tycoon tells court he did not use Trump officials to influence policy on Hong Kong

Pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai has taken the stand for the first time since his arrest on national security charges.

  • Lisa Visentin
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, delivers a speech beside his wife Stella Assange at the European council in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday.

‘Let us stop gagging … and killing each other’: Assange breaks his silence

The 53-year-old WikiLeaks founder has spoken publicly for the first time since being freed from a UK prison after pleading guilty to US charges.

  • Rob Harris
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Peter Greste spent 400 days in jail. Now he wants a register for journalists in Australia

Former journalist Peter Greste spent 400 days in an Egyptian jail while working for Al Jazeera. Now, he has co-founded a body to define journalistic standards and press freedom in Australia.

  • Calum Jaspan
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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

Reporter Evan Gershkovich goes on trial in Russia on specious espionage charges

The American-born son of immigrants from the USSR is the first Western journalist arrested on espionage charges in post-Soviet Russia.

  • Jim Heintz and Kirill Zarubin
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves the courthouse in the Northern Mariana Islands after pleading guilty to a felony charge.

‘Nothing to be ashamed of’: Lawyers defiant as Assange heads to Australia

The WikiLeaks founder’s conviction has put journalists around the world at risk of imprisonment for doing their jobs, Julian Assange’s lawyers have warned.

  • Matthew Knott and Lisa Visentin
Julian Assange leaving the court in Saipan.

The dark footnote in the history of tiny island where Assange was freed

After 14 years, the many twists and turns of Julian Assange’s legal woes were finally decided on Saipan – a little-known Pacific island.

  • Lisa Visentin
Julian Assange on board the plane that took him from Britain to Bangkok.

‘Miscarriage of justice’: Condemnation in sections of the US to Assange plea deal

Former Republican vice president Mike Pence said the plea deal was a “miscarriage of justice”, while candidate and conspiracy theorist Robert F Kennedy jr said he was “overjoyed”.

  • Farrah Tomazin

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