2005-2014

BAGHDAD, 25 January (IRIN) - Local journalists say they are unable to write freely about politics due to threats from insurgents and unknown sources. Khalid Samim of the Iraqi Journalists Association (IJA) said the association had received more than 80 reports of threats against journalists from confirmed insurgents since the war began, and more than 100 from unknown sources. Threats appeared to...

MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin's second-largest newspaper is letting readers help decide what to put on its front page in an experiment designed to boost interest in the paper. The Wisconsin State Journal is posting a poll on its Web site allowing readers every weekday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. to pick their favorite out of five story ideas. Barring late-breaking news, the story typically will appear on...

The first pan-European survey to investigate the use of weblogs in public relations and communication management shows a sharp split between converts and sceptics, with one in three practitioners regularly writing or contributing to weblogs but a quarter ignoring the new medium. PREMIER BLOGGER: The most widely read blog of Finland's presidential candidates, is also the wordiest and most intimate...

During last month’s ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Hong Kong, an estimated 3,000 journalists filed a steady stream of stories highlighting diplomatic clashes between developed and developing countries over the rules that govern world trade. Filipino protesters wear masks during a demonstration in front of the Chinese consular office in Makati's financial district of...

An Iraqi TV journalist has been killed while filming intense fighting between US forces and anti-American fighters near the volatile western Iraqi city of Ramadi. Mahmud Zaal, a correspondent for Baghdad Television, was killed on Tuesday while working in the Khalidiya area, about 20km east of Ramadi, said his station deputy director Thair Ahmad. The circumstances surrounding the killing were not...

UNESCO has published a handbook for journalists of developing countries on the use of Internet for journalistic purposes. The handbook — The Net for Journalists — has been published in collaboration with the Thomson Foundation and Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA). An important feature of the handbook is that it does not only tell where and how to get the information one needs, but also...

BAGHDAD, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Five Iraqi women prisoners whose release has become linked to the case of kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll will be freed from U.S. custody on Thursday, a Justice Ministry official said on Wednesday. Iraqi officials have been at odds with their U.S. counterparts over the release of the five, among eight women terrorism suspects in American custody in Iraq. The...

LONDON (AFP) - A journalist who helped expose a series of police errors in the shooting of a Brazilian man mistaken for a suicide bomber has been arrested on suspicion of theft, a newspaper said. The scoop in August by television broadcaster ITV News was based on leaked statements from the official inquiry into the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes at a London subway station on June 22. The...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court has sentenced a journalist to three years in prison for fabricating and spreading alarmist information about a 2004 outbreak of dengue fever in the southeastern province of Fujian, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Li Changqing, a one-time senior journalist at the official Fuzhou Daily, has decided to appeal against the ruling meted out by the People's Court in...

SAN FRANCISCO/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Internet search giant Google Inc. will block politically sensitive terms on its new China site, bowing to conditions set by Beijing in return for access to the world's number-two Internet market. The voluntary concessions laid out on Tuesday by Google, which is launching a China-based search site as it officially enters the market, would parallel similar self...