2005-2014

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has warned governments that plans for an information society based on democratic values would fail if they did not put media and free expression rights at the heart of policy-making. NO ENTRY: Robert Menard, head of the French press freedom organisation Reporters sans Frontieres (RSF), is interviewed by media upon his return at Roissy airport...

The revelation that acclaimed journalist Bob Woodward sat on information in the CIA leak case for two years is difficult to defend even by "mainstream" journalists who have admired his work for more than three decades. Woodward testified to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald on Monday that a senior Bush administration official told him in mid-June 2003 about Valerie Plame's job at the CIA. She...

More than 60 former journalists of the Knight Ridder group have volunteered to nominate candidates for the Knight Ridder board to reassert John Knight’s creed. In a widely-circulated "Open Letter from Knight Ridder Alumni", they said they would not remain silent anymore, and would support and counsel only corporate leadership that restores to Knight Ridder newspapers the resources to do excellent...

Ukranian parliament has overwhelmingly approved a bill prohibiting state authorities from carrying out inspections of media groups during the forthcoming parliamentary election campaign, report agencies. RED RIDING HOODS: Reporters dressed in red overcoats hang a dummy made from Ukrainian newspapers during a protest near the parliament in Kiev November 17, 2005. Leading reporters staged a rally to

Communication Rights (CR) as a broad over-arching concept featured variously, at times controversially, at the Tunis World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Ironically, it is yet to find a mention in the Summit declaration. Communication rights is an all-encompassing notion. Activists gathered in this north African city have cited it to campaign on a diverse range of issues – from gender...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has released a list of 15 countries that are "enemies of the Internet" and pointed to a dozen others whose attitude to it is worrying. The 15 "enemies" are the countries that crack down hardest on the Internet, censoring independent news sites and opposition publications, monitoring the Web to stifle dissident voices, and harassing, intimidating and sometimes...

As reporters keep scrambling to find out who told Bob Woodward about Joe Wilson’s wife, Woodward himself has told TIME about a related mystery: what made the source finally come forward. When the Washington Post reporter went public with his involvement in the CIA leak case earlier this week, he failed to explain why his source waited silently for two years before coming clean to special...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Bob Woodward's startling true confession will have a far-reaching impact on more than the trial of Lewis Libby, the top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney who has been indicted for perjury in connection with the CIA leak case. I suspect that the Woodward affair will change a time-honored tradition in my profession. Now, journalists/would-be authors are likely to receive...

Latha Gauri is a community reporter. On November 17, she took to the podium at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis – the sole representative of a mammoth global grassroots caucus selected to speak at the plenary session. Gauri works for Sneha, a voluntary organisation which networks over 500 villages close to the southern Indian city of Hyderabad – nicknamed Cyberabad for its...

Tunisia has refused entry to the chief of press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) on Thursday when he arrived for a UN summit at which journalists have been harassed, the Paris-based organisation said. Robert Ménard © Indymedia "I wasn't even able to get off the plane," RSF Secretary-General Robert Ménard said. "Just after the plane stopped, I was told to remain seated and to wait...