2005-2014

China's repressive government may one day allow the full flood of the Internet to sweep through Chinese society, but for now it is still dedicated to building ever higher and stronger seawalls against liberating knowledge. Over the weekend, two state censorship agencies issued new and more stringent rules about what news can be published on the Internet and who can publish it. The rules...

Rita was no Katrina, to the relief of an entire nation. But in the aftermath of the first hurricane, which ravaged New Orleans and large parts of the Gulf Coast, broadcast and cable TV took no chances. From networks calling in their weekday morning-show anchors for weekend Rita duty (ABC's Good Morning America ran five hours Saturday) to wall-to-wall coverage on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC and prime...

For the third consecutive year the rich got richer. In the 24th annual edition of The Forbes 400, the collective net worth of the wealthiest in the US climbed $125 billion, to $1.13 trillion. All but 26 people on the roster are billionaires. Surging real estate and oil prices drove up several fortunes and helped pave the way for 33 new members (and nine retreads). And figuring the top 400 are 42...

Coimbatore, Sept 24: A reporter of a leading Tamil daily, who had gone to cover the farmers' grievances day, was allegedly assaulted by revenue officials at the meeting hall at nearby Tirupur yesterday. A senior revenue official started abusing the reporter, Manikandan, representing 'Dinamani', as soon as he entered the meeting hall. As the journalist was explaining, some officials started...

Irked by the partial classification of newspapers, a group of publishers, editors and journalists on Friday, forced the Chairman of Press Council Nepal (PCN) Mathvar Singh Basnet off his chair and locked his office protesting against PCN's "unfair and biased" classification of newspapers, reports on Saturday said. Journalists from Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur, who had reached the PCN office...

KATHMNANDU, Sept. 23: About 2,881 newspapers and journals have been registered in the country during the fiscal year 061-062. Out of this, only 557 newspapers are published. And only 322 of them are said to be regular, it is stated in the 30th annual report of the Nepal Press Council. The Council has been issuing the annual report every year. Among the newspapers, those in ‘A’ category are...

UNESCO invites Member States and regional and international organizations professional and non-governmental organizations working in the field of journalism and freedom of expression to nominate candidates for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. As stipulated in the Regulations, the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize is intended "to honour – a person, organization or...

The New York Times Web site began charging for some of its content this week, and so those students who wake up too late for the paper copy may miss out on articles they want to read. The new system, called TimesSelect, will limit access to op-ed columnists and other online content to customers who subscribe to the paper edition and who pay the online fee. Tufts students, who receive free paper...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing more than 500,000 journalists in over 110 countries, has welcomed the release of journalist Harihar Singh Rathour, but is deeply concerned for the safety of journalists in the Dailekh district. On September 21, journalist Harihar Singh Rathour was released from police custody in Dailekh District after being...

THE NEW YORK TIMES CO. ran more online display ads last month than any other advertiser in the consumer goods category, according to recent data from Nielsen//NetRatings' AdRelevance. Online ads for consumer goods accounted for 5 percent of all online display ads last month; the total estimated ad spend for consumer goods display ads was $28.7 million. The Times Co. was responsible for 9.2 percent...