2005-2014

The liberal coverage of Islam by a large section of the international media is both a negative and positive phenomenon. It is apparent that the media provide fora for discussions on the meaning, scope and applicability of Islam. And, to a large extent, the discussants, among whom can be found Muslims, always attempt to explore the various arguments over the multifarious definitions, essence and...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court declined to intervene on Thursday on behalf of Yahoo Inc., the world's largest Internet media company, saying U.S. courts have no jurisdiction in a case pitting free speech against a French law barring the sale of Nazi memorabilia. In a case that pitted U.S. freedom of speech rights against European anti-hate group statutes, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court...

Reports of international condemnation of the killing of a young journalist by a forest ranger in Assam are trickling in but the Indian government is yet to make even the ritual noises about the gruesome murder that has shaken conservationists and journalists alike in the Northeast state. CONCERNED: UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura speaks at a news conference in Bridgetown, Barbados...

ZAGREB - A Croatian journalist charged by the UN war crimes tribunal with contempt of court has defied it by publishing the secret testimony of a protected witness on the Internet, reports said on January 12. Domagoj Margetic put out on his personal website what appeared to be testimony by Croatian President Stipe Mesic during the 1997 trial of former Bosnian Croat general Tihomir Blaskic, the...

The International Herald Tribune will start publishing in Moscow on Feb. 1 under an agreement with The Moscow Times, becoming the first international newspaper to be published daily in Russia. The newspaper will initially be sold by subscription and at about 40 newsstands in hotels, supermarkets, trade centers and BP filling stations. An annual subscription will cost $599, while single copies will...

The Moscow City Court trying three Chechens charged with murdering Paul Klebnikov has postponed the trial by a week even as the three accused pleaded not guilty when the trial began behind closed doors in Moscow, report agencies. SMILES OF ANOTHER DAY: The editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition Paul Klebnikov speaks at a news conference to mark the edition of the Forbes magazine issue 'The

Azerbaijani journalists are demanding that the authorities report on progress made in the investigation into the murder of Elmar Huseynov, according to Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). Huseynov, Editor-in-Chief of the opposition news magazine Monitor, was assassinated in Baku in March 2005. JUSTICE DELAYED: Elmar Huseynov was gunned down in his apartment building in capital Baku on

A citizen journalist video clip from a concerned citizen about a pregnant woman giving birth on a pavement after being denied admission in a government hospital has created a stir in the Andhra Pradesh capital of Hyderabad. CRUEL INTENTION: A pregnant woman had to perforce give birth on the roadside after being denied admission in a government hospital in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. The incident...

Local media reporting on science is too nationalistic and does not focus enough on a discovery's importance and impact on society, a report released Thursday revealed. The report, carried out by the Korean Press Foundation, found that 75.4 percent of news stories on scientific achievements on major television networks were about discoveries by Koreans. The results were based on an analysis of 69...

If a publisher takes as a basic premise that the trends of past years will continue in 2006 ? that print advertising growth will be less than 5% -- the bears say it will actually drop 1.5% and fear that is too optimistic -- and that Internet advertising will grow from 20-30%, is there any way to continue the usual 20% plus margins? The answer may rest in how well newspapers are exploiting the...