2005-2014

Photo journalist of a Hindi daily and vice president of the Pink City Press Club Niranjan Chauhan was beaten up at a marriage party, where he had taken photographs of the misuse of domestic gas cylinders. According to the police, a medico-legal case has been registered against the assailants and three persons have been arrested from Trimurti Circle in the city where the incident occurred. The...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 22 - The tools of her trade were a notebook, pen, Islamic head covering and Arabic name to pass unnoticed through Iraqi streets. Together with an interpreter and a driver, Jill Carroll, a 28-year-old American journalist, was able to slip quietly inside Iraqi society, telling stories about the lives of the Iraqis she met. But on the morning of Jan. 7, Ms. Carroll was kidnapped...

NEW DELHI, JAN 22: Indian advertising outsourcing business is facing a serious threat from countries like China, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa and Australia. According to a paper brought out by Assocham, these countries are all geared up to take away a major chunk of advertisement outsourcing business from India. In a paper titled ‘Outsourcing in Advertising: Is India the...

Press freedom organisations have welcomed the conviction in the murder of Carlos Cardoso, but called on authorities to pursue those who had masterminded the killing of Mozambique's leading investigative journalist. A court in the capital, Maputo, convicted Anibal dos Santos Jr for the second time of recruiting Cardoso's killers. Dos Santos, better known as Anibalzinho, was sentenced to almost 30...

KATHMANDU, Jan 23 - The security men on Saturday night detained Khem Bhandari, editor of local daily 'Mahendranagar Post' and 'Abhiyan tabloid' from the Campus road in Mahendranagar. Bhandari was arrested before 9 p m, when the curfew begins in the area, while he was returning home. Security officials claimed that he was taken into custody for an argument with the patrol team. The security men are...

The cost of media across the globe is likely to rise above the rate of inflation during 2006, reports the Futures Worldwide review by the Initiative media network. Published annually since 2000, this year's survey points again to cinema as the most expensive medium, with costs rising by around 9.1%. This is followed by the internet. Its predicted 5.9% cost increase will be fuelled by the rapid...

SHARJAH – A journalist who filed a defamation case against Gulf News and some of its editorial staff fainted in the courtroom when her appeal was rejected yesterday. Speaking to Khaleej Times, IIqbal Al Tamimi, who was the first victim of Sharjah slasher, claimed that the story published in Gulf News had ruined her life and her career after she lost her freelancing job. She said that she was only...

NEW DELHI: A host of South East Asian countries along with Australia and South Africa are posing a threat to the outsourcing of Indian advertising, according to a recently concluded Assocham study. According to a paper on 'Outsourcing in advertising: is India the destination next?' brought out by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) the size of the advertisement...

SANA’A – Results of the first ever study into working conditions for women working in the media are to be announced this week at a workshop organized by the Yemeni Female Media Forum (YFMF). The workshop, which will run from January 22-23, will present the results of the first public survey concerning the status of the media in Yemen media - and the obstacles they face in the society and in their...

In an attempt to bolster ad revenues at The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company, has just appointed its first nonjournalist chief executive. Richard F. Zannino, the company's chief operating officer since 2002, will replace Peter Kann and Karen Elliot House, the premier journalistic power couple, who led the business publishing empire for nearly two decades. Unlike Pulitzer Prize winners Mr...