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The CIA has been using media workers for intelligence gathering and allowing agents to pose as journalists, according to a Council on Foreign Relations report, despite a 1977 directive virtually prohibiting such activity. The directive allows such activity only if the CIA's director specifically approves of it. The director has granted such approval once or twice since the early 1980s, according to former director Robert Gates., The Central Intelligence Agency apparently is so good at keeping secrets that few people realized that for the past 19 years, agents have been allowed to pose as journalists and [...]

Since August 1945, hundreds if not thousands of 'nuclear' movies have appeared. Americans have been exposed to several foreign films on the subject, most notably Akira Kurosawa's 'Rhapsody in August,' [...]

It looked at first like nothing more than a humorous update on the Dick Cheney shot-his-friend-in-the-face moment, this time featuring Mike Huckabee. But by the time Jim Tankersley was done, [...]

FEBRUARY 9, 1957: As the Pittsburgh Press revamped its women's pages, Feature Editor William K. Trosene wrote, 'Women's pages are just like women. A pat of powder, a dab of [...]

Web cols offer more 'E&P' Regular visitors to E&P Online may already have seen some of the columns below. But for those who don't closely follow our Web reporting and [...]

There are still more conservative than liberal columnists Starts and sales of columns by conservatives haven't risen much as the country's political mood turned rightward after Sept. 11. One reason [...]

Sunshine State gets in the game Against early expectations, Florida is in play, and the prospect of gaining its 25 electoral votes is eliciting close attention from both major presidential [...]

Although fewer journalists are being killed and imprisoned around the world, organizers of the eighth annual World Press Freedom Day, set for May 3, say the need to promote the [...]

Reporters Irv Oslin and Michael Weber charged that they were intentionally voted out of the Ohio Legislative Correspondents Assn. (OLCA) because they write for alternative newspapers. Both reporters saw their ouster as the result of a political manipulation within the OLCA to rid itself of alternative journalists. Both reporters claimed that being stripped of OLCA membership restricts their capacity to adequately cover affairs of the Statehouse., Two reporters say they were booted out of the Ohio Legislative Correspondents Association because they write for alternative newspapers. Backing them up was Terry Smith, editor of the alternative Athens [...]

ABC News Correspondent John Scali recalls his participation in events that led to the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis. On Oct 26, 1962, Scali had a meeting with Soviet Embassy official Aleksandr Fomin during which Fomin gave Scali a proposal for Soviet missile withdrawal to pass on to the State Department. Scali delivered the documents without publishing the information and thereby aided the negotiations. The Occidental Grill in Washington, DC, has commemorated the meeting, which took place on its premises, with a plaque., ABC News correspondent John Scali's role in bringing the Cuban Missile Crisis to an end is commemorated by the restaurant where his fateful meeting with a Soviet official took place [...]

Thomas Tarter, publisher of the free monthly TATler in Roswell, NM, says his paper's mission is to do what the city's mainstream paper, the Roswell Daily Record, fails to do: hold city government accountable to citizens. Tarter is a regular at city council meetings, where he has been a constant thorn in Mayor William Brainerd's side. He was even arrested for calling Brainerd a Nazi. The TATler is supported by donations because Tarter refuses to allow advertising to compromise his principles., THOMAS TARTER, THE fiercely independent publisher of a Roswell, N.M., newspaper, stands by his right to cover a city council meeting while voicing his opinion on local issues as a [...]

A former reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune can stay on as Louisiana's inspector general in the aftermath of the state's historic gubernatorial election between ex-Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard [...]

Advocacy journalism and activist lives Mainstream newspaper editor are overly concerned about advocacy journalism and reporters who lead activist lives in their off-hours. This was the consensus of three pro-advocacy [...]

Journalism groups say laws would penalize legitimate news gathering TWO BILLS AIMED at curbing the excesses of paparazzi by imposing criminal sanctions on their conduct raise dangerous First Amendment concerns [...]

Columnist Laura Miller is running for a seat on the Dallas City Council. If she wins on May 2, she'll drop her journalism work. In a Dallas Observer cover story [...]

Journalist Scott Armstrong has been battling unsuccessfully to have the National Security Council designated as an agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act. He recently attempted to introduce this addition to a pending bill on electronic freedom of information, but the bill's sponsors denied his proposal, saying inclusion of the new provision would almost certainly trigger a presidential veto. Armstrong plans to continue his fight., AS THE ELECTRONIC Freedom of Information Act as poised to take the floor in the House of Repretatives, attendees of an FolA anniversary conference found themselves in hot debate over [...]

An Aug 25, 1992, San Jose Mercury News column written by Pat Dillon has sparked a California recall drive against Gov Pete Wilson, Assembly Pres Willie Brown and Senate Pres Pro Tem David Roberti. The three were at the forefront of political battles that resulted in a failure to pass the state's budget. In his column, Dillon proposed a recall and explained the recall process., Newspaper columnists often take strong positions on issues but Pat Dillon of the San Jose Mercury News has unleashed a reader hurricane with his stand. It began with his Aug. [...]

Some of the nation's leading journalism groups are lining up against an international rights treaty that is being resurrected after waiting 13 years for Senate ratification. The American Society of [...]