French news site Rue89 suffers cyberattacks, staffers harassed
August 13, 2014 12:47 PM ET
Brussels, August 13, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns repeated cyberattacks on Paris-based news website Rue89 and the harassment of members of its staff and their families since the site published a profile of an Internet hacker last month....
Mediapart complies with ruling, but vows to fight on
July 23, 2013 2:17 PM ET
At midnight on Monday, the French news website Mediapart complied with the Versailles court of appeal which last week ordered the site to withdraw articles referring to the Bettencourt recordings--the secret tapings of Liliane Bettencourt, the richest woman in France,...
An information void in Mali as journalists are obstructed
February 1, 2013 9:48 AM ET
Three weeks after France's military intervention in Mali, the war remains largely "without images and without facts," as described by Jean-Paul Mari, special envoy for the newsweekly Le Nouvel Observateur. Although journalists have been allowed to follow French and Malian...
In Mali, a war 'without images and without facts'
January 25, 2013 11:54 AM ET
The French army is often called la Grande Muette, or "the Great Silent." The war in Mali confirms the French military's well-deserved reputation of being secretive about front-line actions. "Locking the information is more in the culture of the...