2005-2014

United Kingdom based newspaper ‘The Zimbabwean’ reports that 150 copies of its paper were confiscated and torn to pieces by the Zanu PF Provincial Secretary for youth in Manicaland, Oliver Chiruka. The incident took place in Braamfontein, South Africa last Friday. The bearded Chiruka allegedly grabbed the newspapers from a vendor in full view of other street vendors and passengers boarding buses...

China is sending a Chinese journalist working for the New York Times to trial charged with exposing state secrets, his lawyer said on Friday. Zhao Yan, who worked as a researcher for the paper before his arrest in September last year, won the Reporters Without Borders 2005 prize this month for journalists who have “shown a strong commitment to press freedom”. “The way they have done this shows...

23 December 2005 -- The Belarusian magazine "Solidarity" published its last edition today. The magazine was the publication of independent unions representing workers in a variety of trades in Belarus. In a message to readers in the last issue, "Solidarity" editors say the Minsk government had taken a number of measures, including canceling a contract with the state distribution agency, that made...

WHEN a dozen Chinese newspapers recently ran stories about a rash of sadistic cat killings in Shanghai by a perverse postgraduate student, it was another quiet triumph for a young man in Beijing called Zhao Jing. To a widening blog readership in China and abroad, Zhao is better known by the pseudonym Anti. As well as indicating an oppositionist stance in English, it also strikes a dissident note...

SHANGHAI: World leading communications solution provider Siemens will launch a massive campaign to tap into the business of digital television over the Internet, known as IPTV, in the Chinese market. Senior executives announced here on Wednesday that the German company will enhance its investment and research and development capabilities to develop and localize its IPTV technology and services in...

As with lots of pressing issues people grapple with, complaints about the media invite a partisan clash: liberal versus conservative, Democrat versus Republican. Or some other "us" against a readily targeted "them." But maybe there's a more useful, even unifying mind-set: to see the media delivery system for news, entertainment and other programming as being skewed in an across-the-board...

In a bid to increase traffic and reap more online advertising revenues, WashingtonPost.com will allow articles to remain free on the site for 60 days before they go behind the subscribers-only wall. Previously, stories were only accessible for 14 days. The switch is an acknowledgement of the role of blogs, search and RSS, which have all worked to keep news stories in the public eye for longer...

Jeff Bewkes, the Svengali who formerly ran Home Box Office and conjured such mega-hits as Sex in the City and The Sopranos, appears set to inherit the Time Warner crown. On Wednesday Bewkes (53), currently in charge of TW's cable networks and film studios, was named president and chief operating officer - an appointment seen by insiders as tantamount to Crown Prince. Bewkes, along with Don Logan...

Almost three-quarters of Americans think it was wrong for the Pentagon to pay Iraqi newspapers to publish news about U.S. efforts in Iraq, a new USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll shows. USA TODAY reported earlier this month that the Pentagon plans to expand beyond Iraq an anti-terrorism public relations campaign that has included secret payments to Iraqi journalists and publications who printed stories...

The German ministry of defense has admitted that it is carrying out an internal inquiry into the possible extracting of information on suspected terrorists by Bundeswehr operatives posing as journalists in Bosnia. The confirmation of an inquiry on Wednesday, reported in the German media on Thursday, follows allegations that German soldiers attached to the United Nations mission in Bosnia had...