Roxana Saberi

Update: CNN confirms that North Korea has released and pardoned journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling.
As a Fargo artist renders one local symbol of press freedom in stencils — journalist Roxana Saberi, who was accused of spying and jailed in Iran — another pair of American reporters remain imprisoned in North Korea. But there’s a [...]

Minnesota Public Radio rolls out its new integrated news page under the MPRnewsQ brand, prompting questions about the “Q.” Former KARE anchor Rick Kupchella launches a healthcare reform PR project, with a key Republican as his partner. And Fargo’s Roxana Saberi calls for the release of her former cellmate in Iran.

Identical shots of Sunday’s implosion of Minneapolis’ Lowry Avenue bridge grace the covers of both dailies… just a day before both papers run the same New York Times story on Iran on their covers. Plus, Fargo’s Roxana Saberi inks a book deal, and the Examiner(s) examined, inside.

As Fargo-born reporter Roxana Saberi — freed last month from an Iranian jail — receives the Medill Medal for Courage from Northwestern University, a pair of American journalists now find themselves facing a long prison sentence on similar charges: Current TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee have been tried and convicted by a [...]

Fargo-born journalist Roxana Saberi’s release from an Iranian prison is imminent, according to an official cited this morning in a report by Reuters. UPDATE: Her lawyer says she is “now out of jail.” Sen. Amy Klobuchar says: “Saberi is now free to return home.”

She was supposed to be in Minnesota this weekend giving the commencement address at her alma mater, but instead journalist Roxana Saberi was hospitalized in Tehran after two weeks on a hunger strike, according to an AP report.  An American journalist of Iranian and Japanese parents, the Fargo native went on a liquid-only fast on [...]

One week into her hunger strike, jailed American journalist and Fargo native Roxana Saberi is growing weak, according to her parents. Detained in January in Iran and sentenced to eight years for spying, Saberi has lost 10 pounds after seven days subsisting on a liquid-only diet, her parents, Reza and Akiko Saberi, said after visiting [...]

With finalists for the Pulitzer Prizes being announced today, local contenders MnIndy and MinnPost wait with bated breath. And the weekly American Jewish World, hit by the downturn in print news advertising, switches to biweekly production. This and more inside.