2005-2014

Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- A former London-based correspondent for Walt Disney Co.'s ABC News won a legal claim that he was fired for refusing to cover war zones, one of the first rulings in Britain arising from workplace-safety regulations. Richard Gizbert, 47, sued ABC for unfair dismissal for firing him in 2004 after he rejected assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan, contrary to a policy that all war...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has launched an ad campaign in 60 African newspapers to draw attention to the many murders of journalists in Africa that go unpunished. The launch camer on the seventh anniversary of Norbert Zongo's murder in Burkina Faso and a few days before the first anniversary of Deyda Hydara's murder in Gambia. Produced in French and English, the advertisement is being

A regional court in Peru has sentenced a mayor to 17 years in prison for ordering the killing of a journalist last year. The Ancash regional higher court December 14 sentenced Yungay mayor Amaro Léon Léon to prison for ordering the killing of Antonio de la Torre Echeandia, the presenter of a news programme on local Radio Orbita, who was stabbed to death on February 14, 2004 in Yungay (400 km

Press freedom violations in Uzbekistan have escalated since the Andijan killings in May 2005. There has been a growing tally of assaults, threats, beatings, sentences, expulsions and office closures, culminating in that of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) on December 12, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has said. The offices of the BBC and media training organisation Internews have been

Moscow’s Military District Court has ruled the criminal actions against Colonel Pavel Popovskikh, an acquitted defendant in the case of a murdered journalist, were unjustified. Popovskikh is now to receive 2,135,000 rubles (about $75,000) in moral and material damages, Itar Tass reported Thursday. Popovskikh was among six suspects charged with the murder of Moscow journalist Dmitry Kholodov...

The United States, in an attempt to salvage its image abroad especially among journalists in Islamic countries, has announced a programme that will bring up to 100 foreign journalists to the US to "foster more understanding about the American press and its function in a democracy." The US state department Tuesday announced the launch of a new international journalism programme, in partnership with...

SIXTEEN PERCENT OF ADULTS IN Canada read an online newspaper each week last year--up from 10 percent in 2001, according to a new report by the Newspaper Audience Databank, Inc., the research arm of the Canadian Daily Newspaper industry. Last year alone, readership of online newspapers grew by 12 percent, according to the report, with the national newspapers drawing the largest traffic. But that...

If you read conservative blogs, you're familiar with the argument that the mainstream media buries the good news in Iraq because of their liberal bias and hatred of the president. Liberals, meanwhile, contend the press isn't showing the real horrors of the war, and suggest that a focus on insignificant "good news" would be misleading the public. (Recently, the New Republic's Jason Zengerle mocked...

NEW YORK - Popular subscription-based blogging service TypePad went offline on Friday, delaying updates to thousands of sites. Users of the system were unable to post new stories, and posts written in the last week disappeared entirely. The shutdown occurred late Thursday night as Six Apart was increasing redundancy on its disk storage. "It's kind of like lightning striking. At the point where we...

During the rush hour of Thursday morning on 7 July 2005, four bombs exploded in central London killing 56 people including four bombers. Three bombs exploded on tube trains near Aldgate East, between King’s Cross and Russell Square and, at Edgware Road London Underground tunnels. A fourth bomb went off on a crowded No.30 bus in Tavistock Square. News reporters were dispatched quickly to cover the...