The FBI is ramping up efforts to help bring Austin Tice back home by offering a reward of up to $1 million for any information that can help do so.

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More than a month ago, on May 24, a 37-year-old journalist from the U.S. was detained and thrown in jail, without access to a lawyer or even granted a phone call.

HOUSTON – On Transgender Day of Visibility, a worldwide celebration of transgender and non-binary people, the National Association of Black Journalists announced a new scholarship named after transgender journalist and advocate Monica Roberts. The Monica Roberts LGBTQ+ Task Force Scholarship will support Black LGBTQ+ students studying journalism, mass communications, or otherwise interested in reporting and storytelling, the organization announced. The scholarship was created by the task force’s co-chairs, Tre’vell Anderson and Femi Redwood, and recently unanimously approved by the NABJ board of directors. “When our industry finally stops misgendering trans folks and hyper-focusing on our traumas, we’ll be able to trace such a Promised Land to the efforts of Monica Roberts,” said co-chair Anderson. Ad“Since I joined Tre’vell as co-chair of this Task Force, we’ve wanted to honor Monica for her work,” said co-chair Redwood.

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Can Dundar the former chief editor of the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet poses for a photo prior to an interview with the Associated Press in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. A court in Istanbul convicted exiled journalist Can Dundar on espionage and terror-related charges for a news report and sentencing him to a total of 27 1/2 years in prison. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)A Turkish court on Wednesday convicted the former editor-in-chief of opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet on espionage and terror-related charges over a 2015 news story, a verdict the exiled journalist said exemplified the pressures on Turkish media. The news report claimed that Turkish intelligence service and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not allow a prosecutor to pursue an investigation into arms smuggling. After Dundar appealed the conviction, the Supreme Court of Appeals overturned the sentence in 2018 and ordered a retrial with harsher sentences.

HOUSTON – On Tuesday, well-known investigative reporter Wayne Dolcefino was charged with contempt of court and sentenced to three days in jail and six months probation. According to court documents, Dolcefino went up to Judge Darrell Jordan as he sat on the bench and demanded to interview him. Wice argued Dolcefino was not technically in contempt of court. However, Judge Jordan begged to differ. He says Dolcefino will not get special treatment for being a well-known journalist.

Get2Know KPRC 2’s Lisa Hernandez | HOUSTON LIFE | KPRC 2Published: June 12, 2020, 1:54 pmYou might have seen a familiar face back on Houston airwaves this month. Lisa Hernandez has joined the KPRC 2 family! After taking a little break to spend some quality time with her family, she's returned to the anchor desk as part of the KPRC 2 News Today team. She revealed to Houston Life how is her life at home and how she stays fit.

Legendary KPRC 2 anchor Bill Balleza shares his retirement plans | HOUSTON LIFE | KPRC 2Published: January 27, 2020, 4:15 pmAfter a remarkable 49-year career, legendary KPRC2 anchor, Bill Balleza, is retiring from television. Throughout his years as journalist, he’s become a Houston icon and has left a mark for his professionalism and respect to viewers. Now that he’s less than one week away from staring the next chapter in his life, he shared with Houston Life what that moment will mean to him and what he plans to do next.