2005-2014

A journalist with an Assamese daily has been murdered allegedly at the behest of a forest warden he had criticised in several articles. According to the Assam Tribune, Prahlad Goala, the Golaghat correspondent of the Asomiya Khabar, was brutally murdered on the night of January 6 at Thuramukh near Nambar Reserve Forest. Goala is the first journalist to be killed anywhere in the world in 2006...

Local TV station Web sites, which have lagged behind competitors during the current Internet advertising boom, are poised to make significant strides over the next decade, particularly given their strength in delivering online video content. That's according to a new Television Bureau of Advertising survey conducted by Borrell Associates, "Benchmarking the Local Website Marketplace," which found...

Last fall, students at the University of South Florida contributed to Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia, by writing entries for numpty, mohoger, japsoc, and gavilan. The definitions they gave were foggy (numpty, "tea from the land of nump"; gavilan, "a species of left-wing American focused solely on doom and gloom"). Their English professor, Alex Duensing, encouraged them to dream up more...

The high-profile trial of three former police officers accused of involvement in the 2000 assassination of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze has been adjourned till January 23. The Kiev Appeals Court announced the decision after one of the defendants – former Interior Ministry officer Mykola Protasov – reportedly felt faint in the courtroom. AWAITING JUSTICE: Myroslava Gongadze is seen in the Kiev's

International press freedom organisations have expressed alarm at the abduction of American journalist Jill Carroll in Baghdad, and the murder of her interpreter. Carroll, a freelancer on assignment in Iraq for the Christian Science Monitor, was kidnapped on January 7 by unidentified gunmen in the Adil neighborhood of western Baghdad with her interpreter, Allan Enwiyah. KIDNAPPED AND KILLED...

Microsoft Corp's decision to play ball with the Chinese government by shutting down a dissident blog has evoked worldwide condemnation and criticism. CLOSED GATES: Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates stands in front of the logo for the new Microsoft operating system Vista during his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas January 4. Microsoft's business tack in China is being

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has voiced outrage at the continuing harassment of the independent press by the security forces in both Kathmandu and the districts, in which at least six journalists have been detained, attacked or threatened already this year. DOWN WITH THE KING: Supporters of the Nepal Workers and Peasant Party take part in a massive rally against the monarchy in the capital...

The Jakarta High Court has upheld a defamation verdict against journalist Goenawan Mohamad and press group PT Tempo Inti Media Harian for one billion Indonesian rupees (nearly 100,000 euros) and ordered it to publish apologies in two national dailies. Businessman Tomy Winata, who brought the case, had lodged a score of complaints against the daily Koran Tempo and the weekly Tempo. HE HAS TO

Of all the statements that officers or representatives of a company should never say to the media, the "No comment" answer tops the list. This, according to Guam Business and Marianas Business Journal publisher Maureen N. Maratita during a brief presentation at the first Saipan Rotary Club meeting for 2006 at the Hyatt Regency Saipan. Maratita provided the Rotarians the Top 10 statements that...

MSPs have ordered a report into the state of Scotland's media following a swathe of job losses at the end of last year. Scottish Parliament researchers will look across television, newspaper and radio activity in Scotland over the next few weeks. Their report, expected in February or March, could then trigger a series of fresh hearings with media owners called to give evidence. Last month it...