2005-2014

1 January 2011
IFJ reports heavy media loss to violence after 94 journalists died in 2010

IFJ reports heavy media loss to violence after 94 journalists died in 2010

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has warned that journalists and media personnel remain prime targets for political extremists, gangsters and terrorists as it announced that 94 journalists and media personnel who were killed in 2010, victims of targeted killings, bomb attacks and crossfire incidents. Three other journalists lost their lives in accidents this year. The IFJ list was...

More
1 January 2011
Wage board recommends 3 times pay hike for Indian journalists

Wage board recommends 3 times pay hike for Indian journalists

The Wage Boards for working journalists and non-journalists and other newspaper employees in India have recommended 2.5 to 3 times hike in basic pay and fixing the retirement age at 65. To be implemented retrospectively from January 8, 2008, the revised basic pay has been computed after merging the existing basic pay, the dearness allowance and the 30 per cent interim relief that had been already...

More
1 January 2011
Journalists in 2010 targets and bargaining chips

Journalists in 2010 targets and bargaining chips

Fifty-seven journalists were killed in connection with their work in 2010, 25 per cent fewer than in 2009, when the total was 76. The number of journalists killed in war zones has fallen in recent years. Significantly, it is becoming more and more difficult to identify those responsible in cases in which journalists were killed by criminal gangs, armed groups, religious organisations or state...

More
1 January 2011
Sri Lanka: Less anti-media violence in 2010 but more obstruction and self-censorship

Sri Lanka: Less anti-media violence in 2010 but more obstruction and self-censorship

New forms of censorship and obstruction being used by government to prevent diverse and freely-reported media coverage of the situation in Sri Lanka. The fall in the number of physical attacks, threats and cases of imprisonment is to be welcomed, but it is worrying that the authorities are blocking the return of real editorial freedom, Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF...

More
30 December 2010

Tunisia: Police violently prevent journalists from covering Sidi Bouzid riots

Since the beginning of the Sidi Bouzid riots on December 17, which followed the burning of a new and unemployed graduate, the police have banned any access to the city. Most journalists who tried to cover the incidents have faced police violence, according to Observatoire pour la liberté de presse, d'édition et de création (OLPEC). On the afternoon of December 17, Zouhayr Makhlouf, a correspondent...

More
30 December 2010

New penal code undercuts free speech in Cambodia

The Cambodian government's use of its new penal code against a man who shared web articles with his co-workers is a huge step backward for free expression in Cambodia, Human Rights Watch has said. The man was quickly convicted on incitement charges and sentenced to prison. Human Rights Watch called on the Cambodian government to amend the penal code, which went into effect on December 10, to...

More
30 December 2010

Censor board limits publication of Suu Kyi stories, photos

Burmese state censors are clamping down on the publication of feature stories or interviews with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, on orders from the government, the editor of People's Era journal said recently, according to Mizzima News. Editors of People's Era and the Venus journal met with Suu Kyi on December 21. On December 17, People's Era submitted the transcript of its interview with Suu...

More
30 December 2010
2010's best US newspaper Facebook fan pages

2010's best US newspaper Facebook fan pages

The Washington Post uses Facecbook to the hilt, according to prominent Internet communications firm Bivings Group that tracked how newspapers use the social networking site to best connect with audience. Ranking No. 1 and 2, respectively were The Washington Post and The Chicago Tribune. The Post was cited not just for its very high fan-to-circulation ratio, design features and use of Twitter app...

More
30 December 2010

Inter-American Court orders Honduran government to protect threatened journalist

Journalist José Luis Galdámez and his family deserve protection by Honduran authorities, according to an order from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, reported the Associated Press. Galdámez has a radio program in which he has openly supported ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Galdámez has received several death threats and in September hesurvived, unharmed, an armed attack in front of his...

More
30 December 2010

Brazilian paper sues over satire

The Folha de S. Paulo newspaper has been an example of crusading journalism in Brazil for many decades. Its team of reporters and columnists are famous for the rambunctious and yet lucid way they challenge those in power. But that reputation has soured recently thanks to Folha’s heavy-handed response to two brothers who satirised the paper in a spoof web site, says a Financial Times report. The...

More