Appearing on political television shows Aug. 14, several members of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign said a series of comments he made on the campaign trail were misconstrued by the media.

US journalist Sydney Schanberg, whose reporting inspired the Oscar-winning Hollywood film, The Killing Fields, has died at the age of 82, the New York Times reports. Schanberg worked for the Times and won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting the fall of Cambodia to the Khmer Rouge in 1975. His colleague, Dith Pran, was unable to leave and his four-year ordeal inspired Schanberg's work. Schanberg died in Poughkeepsie after a heart attack earlier in the week.

Morley Safer, 84, died at his home in Manhattan. He was the longest-serving correspondent at CBS News. Funeral arrangements are private, CBS said, adding that a memorial service will be announced at a later date. Due to declining health, he announced his retirement last week.

John Whittingdale offers support to the newspaper and music industries and others hit by the software, adding he will set up a round table on the issue.

VICE News journalist Mohammed Ismael Rasool has been released on bail in Turkey after spending more than four months behind bars on terrorism charges. Rasool was detained alongside two VICE News colleagues on August 27 and sent to a maximum security prison. A document issued by a court in Diyarbakir stated that no bail payment was made, that Rasool was detained "as a protective measure," and he cannot leave the country. He must also report twice a week to a police station near where he lives.

Journalists interested in the science of climate change and its political, social and economic fallout are invited to watch a series of videos launched by the AFP Foundation.

CTV says its Los Angeles bureau chief has been charged nearly a year after his arrest while covering the protests in Ferguson, Mo. The network reports that Tom Walters is facing a charge of interfering with a police officer. Walters was arrested last August while trying to ask a question of a Missouri Highway Patrol officer, and later released without charge. The incident was captured on video.

The departure comes after the magazine retracted an article about a supposed rape at the University of Virginia.

The start of an inquest into the death of a young Aboriginal woman while in police custody will inch a step closer next week.

On Tuesday, Denton held a meeting with the editorial staff, some of whom tweeted what was happening. Finnegan offered a skeptical, detailed play-by-play of the topics the meeting covered:

Too many of the State's convicted sex criminals are showing a disturbing pattern of reoffending when they're released on parole.

World champion surfer Mick Fanning is making waves on social media after he fought of a shark while competing in South Africa.

A fatal train crash was the catalyst for a Singapore couple’s death inspired wedding shoot – because the groom’s parents were on board.

Young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has executed 70 officials since taking power in late 2011 in a "reign of terror" that far exceeds the bloodshed of his dictator father's early rule, South Korean officials say.

A David and Goliath battle has stepped up a notch, with neighbours clashing in the street over a five-metre replica statue in a front yard.

Tony Moroney is living proof you should never judge a book by its cover.

A new set of international safety standards has just been published to try to bridge the gap between freelancers and the news organisations that buy their work.

Wow, just wow.