2005-2014

The crime thundered across the airwaves and onto the newsstands. On April 19, 1989, a young, white investment banker, jogging in Central Park, was bludgeoned, raped, and left to die. The police soon charged a marauding group of Harlem teens with gang rape. The tabloid headlines pumped fear into horror. WOLF PACK'S PREY, announced the New York Daily News, in its first of many page-one stories....

A journalist with Arab news channel al-Jazeera said he and an Afghan colleague were ill-treated by international peacekeepers in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Sayed Cameraman Hashmatolla Moslih - an Australian citizen - and an Afghan reporter were detained while trying to film the scene of a grenade attack on Thursday outside the main base for soldiers from the International Security Assistance Force...

With a circulation of 16.5 lakh copies (according to ABC for the period of January to June 2002) and a readership of 1.3 crore as indicated by the latest round of the Indian Readership Survey, Dainik Bhaskar seems to be a comfortable leader. But resting on its laurels is not a trait one can associate with the Hindi daily that recently forayed into the eight state, namely Maharashtra, adding one...

Shortly before 10 a.m. on August 22, a man jumped from the top of the New York Times' 15-story building in Times Square. Allen Myerson, 47, was a staffer at the paper, an assistant business and financial editor, and he landed on the roof of a parking garage next door. That's where police found him. Dead--an apparent suicide. The next day's obits ranged from a respectful one in the Times--declaring...

On 26 November 2002, RSF voiced its dismay over the death of publication director Ram Chander Chaterpatti on 23 November. The journalist died of injuries he sustained after being shot by a member of a religious sect one month ago in Sirsa (Haryana state). The organisation called on Haryana Chief Minister Om Parkash Chautala to ensure that all those involved in Chaterpatti's killing are identified...

International PEN is concerned over the reported harassment and intimidation of journalist and human rights activist Lachit Bordoloi in Assam, India. PEN believes that Bordoloi, chairman of the Organization for the Struggle for Human Rights (MASS), has been targeted primarily for his coverage of police corruption in Nagaon District, Assam. PEN calls upon the authorities in Assam to guarantee his...

One year after the flight of the Taliban from Kabul, 150 publications are being sold on the streets of the city. Electronic media projects are springing up and dozens of journalists are taking advantage of the various forms of training established by international organisations. The change is radical. After five years of Taliban domination, which had turned Afghanistan into "a country without news...

The last time Rem Rieder asked me to do a story for AJR I was standing on the side of a grumbling volcano in Ecuador. But the eruption had blown far to the northwest in Los Angeles with the last belch of the Chandlers' Los Angeles Times as it fell to Chicago's Tribune Co. This time I was hacking my way through a mangrove forest--well, hacking the way aging journalists do it--on the edge of the...

COPENHAGEN, Oct 31 (AlertNet) - Humanitarian specialists and journalists attending a meeting in Denmark last week challenged the widely-held view that media attention is the strongest factor in determining levels of aid, while technology is making more information available faster. Representatives of humanitarian agencies, often critical of the mainstream news agenda for ignoring crises, and...

Business Standard has finally fallen in line with national and international norms in terms of size. After months of holding on to its original height of 56 cm and width of 38 cm per page (full area), Business Standard, the flagship brand from the company with the same name, will reduce its size. Starting today (Monday, October 28, 2002), it will be slimmer with its width at 35 cm (height remains...