At that moment-and ever since-he has as much power as the highest profile and highest paid journalists on the planet.
It might funnel money to help establish alternative schools or pay foreign journalists to write articles favorable to American policies.
Businesses in the region still pay journalists under the table, and powerful people routinely file libel suits that get favorable hearings.
The prohibition on paying accredited journalists for intelligence work should be absolute.
Except they don't pay journalists; they pay publicists, a perfectly legitimate way of keeping the gossip treadmill rolling, several publicists said.
Turning online readers in cash to pay journalists and keep media businesses running is proving to be incredibly tough to date.
MP's, Lords, Bankers and journalists all highly paid and all highly immoral.
Above all, I don't condemn the practice of paying journalists to tell their sources' stories.
He paid good journalists to write brief reviews of web sites.
The contractor's work also included paying Iraqi journalists for favorable treatment.