2005-2014

The investigation into the murder of BBC producer Kate Peyton in Mogadishu a year ago has lead nowhere and her killers live openly in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. "Peyton's murderers enjoy complete impunity in Mogadishu," Reporters Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said in a statement issued together with the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) to mark the anniversary of the killing

A regional court in Peru has awarded long prison sentences to five men accused in the murder of radio journalist Alberto Rivera Fernández in Pucallpa on April 21, 2004, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). ALBERTO RIVERA: The Peruvian radio journalist was gunned down as he was entering his home, which also housed a shop belonging to the family. Two men who were posing as clients rushed

Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko has called for the high-profile trial into journalist Heorhiy Gongadze's killing to be opened to the public, criticising the court's decision last month to bar journalists from much of the proceedings, his top aide said Wednesday, according to the Associated Press (A). AND SITLL HE HAS THAT PROMISE TO KEEP: Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko seen during his

A pregnant journalist is being held in Ethiopia for two weeks now without being charged. Frezer Negash, a correspondent for the US-based Ethiopian Review was arrested on January 27. "No civilised state can tolerate such detention without trial," Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said,"and this denial of justice is even more deplorable because she is three months pregnant." GUILTY AS NOT CHARGED

Journalists in Colombia are increasingly coming under pressure for their work. Yet another journalist was forced to flee on February 8 – the third journalist forced to flee the place of work in the face of death threats this year alone. COMRADE IN ARMS: File photo of rebel commander Raul Reyes, one of the seven-member governing secretariat Marxist rebel army, gesturing during a Reuters interview

The Burma junta has launched a campaign to track down people who pass on information to the international media. Military officers have been trained in how to identify the sources used by international radio stations and new phone tapping facilities have been installed, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) and Burma Media Association (BMA). EYEING INFORMERS: Burmese military leader Gen

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Under Saddam Hussein, Iraqi journalists were threatened, detained, tortured and killed -- victims of a system that tightly controlled what was written about the country's Baathist leader. The destruction of the Information Ministry -- one of the main instruments of Saddam-era censorship -- during the U.S.-led invasion to oust the Iraqi leader in March 2003 symbolically ended...

It appears that early predictions for online ad spending in 2005 have been confirmed, with some commentators estimating as far back as June that expenditure would top £1bn by the end of the year. The joint Thomson /KPMG report, although it doesn’t give actual figures for Internet spending, concludes that overall advertising spend in the UK was up 5.4%, with television contributing growth of 4%...

LONDON - The word on the street is that a revival of the dot com boom is upon us. If true, then as some entrepreneurs dither at reliving the trauma of a costly cyber-dream, the fortunate few like Rupert Murdoch can hedge their bets, thanks to financial cushions like News Corp. Just as the billionaire chief executive has been touting his push into digital media with a clutch of new Web-based...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll appeared in a video aired Thursday on a private Kuwaiti TV station, appealing in a calm, composed voice for her supporters to do whatever it takes to win her release "as quickly as possible." Carroll, wearing traditional Arab attire, said the date was Feb. 2, nearly a month after she was seized in Baghdad by armed men who killed her Iraqi...