2005-2014

All 18 Journal Register Co dailies in the US published a print newspaper and website content on Sunday July 4 using only free tools available on the Internet, according to Editor & Publisher. The Independence Day editions were the next step in Journal Register’s “Ben Franklin Project,” which began in April when a small daily and a weekly produced newspapers using free social media tools to...

An Ipsos survery has revealed that 63 per cent of 501 online adults said they would prefer to access their newspaper of choice by buying the printed copy – while only 11 per cent would choose to access it digitally, according to a report in The Guardian. Of this 11per cent , most said they would prefer to pay a one-off fee for a mobile application, while 3 per cent of those surveyed said they...

Gunmen abducted three prominent Nigerian journalists and a driver traveling through the country's oil-rich, but volatile southern delta, a colleague said Monday, the latest troubling sign of insecurity in the West African nation, according to Associated Press (AP). The reporters had just left a conference in Akwa Ibom state Sunday afternoon and were forced to stop their bus by a speeding car...

Turkmen authorities have refused to allow husband-and-wife journalists Annamamed Myatiyev and Elena Myatiyeva to travel to the Netherlands, where Myatiyev needs to undergo an operation for a detached retina, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). They were prevented from flying on June 28. Myatiyev and his wife were told they were banned from leaving the country when they tried to fly from...

Miguel Belen, a reporter for radio dwEB in Nabua (in the eastern Philippines province of Camarines Sur), was seriously wounded in a shooting as he was returning to his home in Iriga on the evening of July 9. At least four shots were fired at him by two men on a motorcycle. Hospitalised and in a serious condition, he has been placed under police protection, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has...

Syrian authorities are till pressing criminal defamation charges against investigative journalists Bassam Ali and Suhaila Ismail. The journalists co-wrote two investigative reports in 2005 and 2006 on corruption and the misuse of public funds in the Public Company for Fertilisers in Syria. They concluded that almost 2 billion Syrian pounds (US$43 million) were misappropriated in one year. The...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on authorities in Gaza to allow three pro-Fatah Palestinian papers published in the West Bank to be allowed entry into the territory. The newspapers say they were told they had to sign an agreement stating they would not criticise the government before they’d be allowed to distribute in Gaza. The West Bank-printed newspapers had been banned...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Russian authorities to disclose their progress in the investigation into the unsolved murder of Forbes Russia Editor Paul Klebnikov, left, who was gunned down outside his Moscow office six years ago on July 9 (2004). The case is with the federal Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor-General’s Office, which is responsible for conducting...

Police in Rwanda arrested the editor of a private newspaper on Thursday last in connection with a series of articles critical of the government, according to local journalists. Agnès Uwimana was taken into custody in the capital, Kigali, over allegations that her Kinyarwanda-language weekly Umurabyo had published stories “inciting the public to disobey,” “articles related to division and ethnicity...

The Indian government has refused to renew the visa of Shogo Takahashi, the New Delhi bureau chief of Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK). After making repeated attempts to get his visa renewed, the 46-year-old Takahashi, who had been the bureau chief since 2008, returned home Sunday. A NHK spokesperson said that the broadcaster was surprised at the Indian government’s abrupt decision. The...