2005-2014

Reports have recently come out in the mainstream press about the use of white phosphorus by troops in Iraq. These reports aren’t new – just over a year ago they were coming out from human rights organisations and medics and journalists that white phosphorus, napalm and other agents were being used. But it was not reported in the mainstream because the mainstream, to put it politely, are beholden...

The NUJ Pay In The Media Summit this weekend made huge strides towards a sector-wide approach to building on important gains already made and uniting to drive pay up across the entire industry for the future. Union activists came from all over the country and every media sector to share experience and plan a strategy for an effective pay battle in the coming year. In his opening speech, NUJ...

The controller of BBC Two has said he wants it to be the first mainstream TV channel to appear on broadband. Roly Keating revealed his vision of an online BBC Two mixing "simulcast programming" and "comprehensive catch-up" in a speech to TV executives. He said the channel would be "in the front line" of launching on broadband. A pilot will be unveiled next year along with further trials of...

Even before the the actual megashow of the 36th IFFI began today, all the media persons, particularly the electronic media and the photographers, boycotted the press conference in the middle in protest against authorities deciding not to allow carrying of still camaras and mobile phones into Inox multiplex theatre complex to watch the films. The journalists, who thronged Goa to cover the mega...

KAMPALA, Nov. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- The Ugandan government has slapped a ban on all media houses against debating or holding talk-shows on cases pending before court, including that of opposition leaderKiiza Besigye currently facing treason charges. Minister of State for Information Nsaba Buturo told Xinhua by telephone on Thursday that the ban took immediate effect and threatened to close down any...

More than 70 per cent of newspapers in the United States accept classified advertisements for all guns from unlicensed sellers � rifles, shotguns, and handguns. Less than 20 per cent newspapers do not take classified ads for guns from unlicensed sellers, according to a report by the Campaign to Close the Newspaper Loophole. Between April-November 2005, the Campaign to Close the Newspaper Loophole...

London, 24 Nov. (AKI) - The widow of Tariq Ayyoub, the journalist from satellite TV network Al Jazeera, who was killed when the station's Baghdad offices were bombed in 2003, says she is considering sueing the US government over his death. The revelation follows reports in British newspaper The Daily Mirror, that US president George W. Bush planned to bomb Al Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar but...

Many years ago, a veteran editor at what was then the Chandler-owned Los Angeles Times made the following observation about that family and its dividends from this newspaper: "They're either rolling in it, or they're really rolling in it. And when they're only rolling in it, they start to panic." The era when insufficiently huge newspaper profits would give the shivers only to the members of a...

Poland’s two leading newspapers have blacked out large sections of their front pages Wednesday in an eye-catching protest against media repression in neighboring Belarus, Associated Press reported. The main pages of Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita looked as if a censor had taken a black marker to them, with most text and photographs crossed out. Amnesty International, which led the protest...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has urged Commonwealth heads of government to see that people killing journalists because of their work were duly punished, so the Commonwealth could become "a true home of democracy and freedom." The RSF said on Thursday that 15 journalists had been killed in member-states Bangladesh, Gambia, India, Pakistan, Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka since the last summit in