2005-2014

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has condemned a series of recent measures by King Gyanendra's government that discriminate against the independent press, especially new directives determining how state advertising will be allocated to the media. "Nepal's independent media have in turn been the victims of threats, discrimination and repression, but they have continued to resist all of the government's arbitrary...

Sharing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's concerns about the professional responsibilities of journalists, the Editors Guild of India has constituted a committee to address the issue. The committee, headed by veteran journalist Ajit Bhattacharjea, will submit its report in eight weeks, an Editor Guild's statement said yesterday. The committee is mandated to propose specific measures to enhance the...

On the afternoon of April 20, 2004 Shi Tao, head of the Editorial Department of Contemporary Business News, located in Hunan Province, PRC, took notes at a department meeting. Those notes contained references to information in a CPC official document entitled: "A Notice Regarding Current Stabilizing Work" -- a euphemism for the central government's efforts to keep dissent to a minimum on the eve...

The Internet offers a broad creative canvas to advertisers. You can mix audio, video, text to engage users in highly interactive ways. So, what are the creative trends emerging in the Indian cyberscape? Does Flash rule or is the good old banner still holding the fort? Is the increasingly availability of bandwidth reason enough to adopt richer media? What creative strategies deliver the best...

The Delhi High Court has issued notices to weeklies India Today and Outlook for publishing "obscene" articles and sex surveys in their recent editions. A division bench also issued notices to the information and broadcasting ministry and the Press Council of India (PCI) asking them to file their replies by December 7, the next date of hearing. A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by one...

China's new Internet rules China tightened its already stringent regulations on Internet content this week. A September 25 statement from the Ministry of Information Industry banned "subversive" material–including pornography, criticism of the government, and sensitive topics like Tibet and Taiwan independence–from the country's computer networks. Instead, only "healthy, civilized news and...

WASHINGTON – Marine officers are taught to think ahead. So Josh Rushing, a captain in the Corps until last October, anticipated the unpleasant questions. Is he a modern-day Tokyo Rose, the nickname GIs in World War II gave to the women they heard on Japanese radio trying to turn them against America? Is he a propagandist set to tear down the country he once served? A collaborator aiding the enemy...

Here's the scoop on the newspaper industry. Publishers have announced more than 1,000 job cuts this year at big metro dailies, inside the newsroom and on the business side. And once again, editors and reporters wonder if their journalistic mission will suffer at the hands of Wall Street's demand for profit margin improvement amid slumping ad revenue. Newspaper executives don't have it easy, either...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Hurricane Katrina coverage helped boost ratings at the four cable news channels in the third quarter, with CNN and MSNBC posting their best viewership levels since the Iraq war started in the second quarter of 2003, according to Nielsen Media Research data issued Tuesday. Fox News, which was already having a standout summer, jumped 31% over the year-ago period in...

As part of its effort to make search marketing more appealing to brand marketers and other traditional marketers, Yahoo! has begun offering its larger advertiser and agency partners more advanced tools for choosing keywords. The company has been quietly beta testing two new tools with 10 to 15 of Yahoo!'s top advertisers and agencies for the past two months. Buzz Index -- not to be confused with...