2005-2014

SALEM: Journalists were reportedly manhandled by some tribals from Vellakadai in Yercaud, when the former reached the place for coverage of the controversial ‘naked dance ritual’ performed by tribal women. The journalists could make their escape only after police intervention. While a TV anchorman and a few reporters managed to give the slip to tribals, the reporter of a Tamil Daily and its...

Until September 2004, it was illegal for the voice of a woman singing to be broadcast on the radio in Afghanistan. I wanted to see what was going on in Afghanistan since the invasion and spent six weeks writing about the US Army in Kandahar. Later, I visited Herat in the West of Afghanistan. Herat is probably the most stable and fertile part of Afghanistan. During my trip there I was able to visit...

Police and military harassment, intimidation and physical attacks directed against Sri Lankan media personnel, mainly targeting Tamil journalists, have been mounting since Mahinda Rajapakse assumed the presidency last November. These incidents have emerged amid a sharp rise in violence involving the military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the growing danger of a return to open...

Jan. 18th - 2006 - Nijmegen/The Netherlands - Louis Sévèke was 41 years old, when the journalist/researcher was liquidated with two shots by a professional assassin last November 15th in Nijmegen in the eastern part of Holland, close to the German border. And when replying: do everybody a favor and don't give us that same old stupid BS again about a 'conspiracy theory': There mostly are no real...

Media personnel blamed that the proposed the Broadcasting Authority Act is the conspicuous evident of the panic stricken mentality on the part of government." They accused the government of attempting to curtail press freedom through the introduction of the act, while the controversial Media Ordinance promulgated some months back is still under consideration of the Supreme Court. Speaking at the...

Leading human rights organizations on Tuesday condemned the trial of a journalist and Chechen rights activist as a government campaign to deprive citizens of one of the last remaining alternative sources of information on the brutal war in Chechnya. Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, the head of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society in Nizhny Novgorod, is being tried on charges of inciting ethnic hatred in...

Aljazeera has hired a British law firm to press its request to British Prime Minister Tony Blair for a partial transcript of a conversation between him and US President George Bush, in which the American leader allegedly said the Arab broadcaster's headquarters should be bombed. Yosri Fouda, an investigative reporter and acting Aljazeera bureau chief in London, said the network had hired Finers...

HONG KONG--The Sun, a morning daily, suddenly slashed its newsstand copy price in half, to HK$3 (45 yen) in October. The company said the move was "to commemorate the paper's seventh anniversary." But that anniversary doesn't actually arrive until March this year. Why the price cut? Industry pundits say free tabloid newspapers that started appearing on the streets in recent years are to blame as...

A deal between New Delhi Television (NDTV) and Business Standard (BS) is expected for the infusion of programming content in the both has been turn on, according to sources. For mutuality, BS will struck a content sharing deal with the news broadcasting company promoted by Prannoy Roy, for a cooperative and mutually beneficial relationship between the two groups. NDTV's efforts to provide viewers...

BUENOS AIRES - When a provincial newspaper reported on a corruption scandal, the state government cut off its advertising. And when a well-known journalist's national TV show was canceled, he blamed the decision on economic pressures from Argentina's federal government. Free press and civic activists here are expressing growing concern about subtle government censorship, especially as President...