BERLIN: It has been revealed that Germany’s foreign intelligence service, BND, has been spying on journalists from the BBC, The New York Times, Reuters and other media for a long time. This was reported by the news weekly, Der Spiegel, on Friday. Media rights group, ‘Reporters Without Borders’, labelled the alleged surveillance “a monstrous attack on press freedom”, voicing their fears on the ongoing spying and said it was planning to take legal action. Der Speigel, which has extensively worked with the United States fugitive and intelligence contractor, Edward Snowden, and reported on US and German espionage scandals, only cited documents it had seen. It reported that the BND had listed at least 50 telephone and fax numbers and email addresses of journalists or newsrooms on its list of “selector” keywords for surveillance since 1999. These included several dozen numbers of the BBC at its London Headquarters and in Afghanistan, as well as of the BBC World Service.