2005-2014

Eleven Pakistani media personnel were killed and seventeen others injured in the October 8 quake. Two hundred and forty-two persons working for the media suffered personal or property losses �69 family members of media personnel were killed and 15 others injured. These findings have been revealed in a just-published preliminary report based on the first phase of an assessment mission of the...

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has closed down Karachi-based radio station Mast FM 103 for retransmitting a BBC World Service programme in Urdu about Pakistan's recent earthquake. The station was charged with violating PEMRA by-laws. PEMRA officials assisted by the local police raided the FM 103 radio station and seized its transponders, antennae and other broadcast

Ethiopian authorities are hunting down journalists, civil society activists and opposition leaders in a bid to clamp down on government critics following public protests that left more than 40 dead at the hands of security forces, report the Ethiopian Free Press Journalists' Association (EFJA), the International Press Institute (IPI), Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) and the Committee to Protect

Armed policemen and intelligence personnel besieged the offices of Monitor Publications Ltd in Ugandan capital Kampala on Thursday night marking the culmination of a weeklong witch hunt of independent Daily Monitor newspaper. The raid is beng seen as President Yoweri Museveni's efforts to neutralise support for imprisoned opposition leader Kizza Besigye. RUN FOR COVER: A Ugandan journalist runs

A court in Yemen's capital Sanaa has imposed a fine of one million Yemeni rial on opposition newspaper Al-Thowri and banned two of its journalists from writing for six months. The court on Saturday said the newspaper will have to issue an apology on the last page for three successive editions to two government officials based on defamation charges. FREEDOM OF THE PREZ: President Ali Abdullah Saleh

A Swedish journalist who spent four years in an Eritrean prison for demanding press freedom in the east African country was unexpectedly released Saturday. Dawit Isaak was "feeling really well" after leaving prison, said Leif Obrink, the leader of a Swedish organisation that had fought for the journalist's release. Sofia Beharane, second right, and her three children Yoran, left, Betlehem, second

For all the really bad news about US newspaper circulation figures – down 1.2 million in the past six months – there was one piece of good news: the numbers show undeniably that newspaper web sites are the most frequently visited for news and information. So now the trick is to convince advertisers that when looking at newspaper circulation numbers they should also be including the newspaper’s web...

SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - The Internet has given rise to profitable companies such as Yahoo Inc., Google Inc., eBay Inc. and others, but the industry is still in the early days and will be further fueled as even faster Internet access proliferates through the United States and other countries, executives said on Wednesday. "We are seeing the beginning of things," said Reed Hastings, chief...

Member countries of the Non- Aligned Movement (NAM) should stand up strongly against the bias given by Western media, Cuban Ambassador to Malaysia Pedro Monzon Barata said in KUALA LUMPUR. Cuba and the Cuban people have always been portrayed by the Western press in a negative light while foreign visitors, when setting foot on this land, will find a different picture and expose those lies, Monzon...

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 19 (Bernama) -- Malaysia's effort to set up the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) News Network (NNN) is close to reality after receiving unanimous support from senior officials preparing for the Sixth Conference of the Ministers of Information of Non-Aligned Countries (COMINAC VI) here. Information Ministry Secretary-General Datuk Siti Balkish Mohamed Shariff said there were no...