2005-2014

The Israeli army raided and closed down three Palestinian radio stations on Wednesday, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). IFJ has demanded a full inquiry into the military crackdown on three radio networks operating out of the city of Hebron which provoked new demonstrations by Palestinian journalists across the West Bank and Gaza. "Sending the army into media houses...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned the requirements imposed on foreign journalists by Hezbollah in the areas it controls in Lebanon. Press accreditation issued by the Lebanese information ministry is of no use in Hezbollah-controlled areas, where journalists must obtain permission from the party's press bureau. Three Brazilian journalists - reporter Marcos Losékan and cameraman Paulo...

Authorities in Niger summarily suspended a private broadcaster for a month citing unspecified regulatory violations, according to local journalists and news reports. The station has provided sympathetic coverage of the country's former prime minister, now jailed on corruption charges, according to several sources. In a ruling obtained by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has written to Yemeni interior minister Mutahar Rashad Al-Masri calling for the immediate release of two brothers, Ali Nasser Kaid Al-Bokheiti and Mohammed Ahmed Hassan Al-Bokheiti, who were arrested on July 21 at a military roadblock with a British freelance journalist for whom they working as fixers. The British journalist was deported the same day. They have been...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) wants the Broadcast Audience Research Council to start its audience measurement activities by January next year with representatives from the government, says a report in the Hindu Businessline. The Authority is also seeking regulation over content. “With increased convergence and the blurring of boundaries between carriage and content, the recent...

The police commissioner of Aruangabad, KL Bishnoi, on Thursday suspended a head constable for threatening to kill a press photographer, says a Press Trust of India (PTI) report. The report against constable Pradeep Dhote and Sudhakar Rathod of MIDC Waluj poilce station and Vishnu Jagdale and Babasaheb Kakade of Cantonment police station will be submitted on Friday. The policemen reportedly...

A member of the editorial board of the Lagos-based private daily newspaper Thisday was shot dead on Sunday in Dopemu, a suburb of Lagos, by yet-to-be identified gunmen, Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has reported. According to the Nigerian Police, while driving home Paul Abayomi Ogundeji was ambushed by armed robbers who had earlier stolen another car. The police allege that the bandits ordered him to...

A government vehicle was used to ransack the offices of two Senegalese independent newspapers on Sunday, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has eported. The attacks came just three days after a top official threatened unspecified retaliation against the papers over critical stories. A dozen unidentified men stormed the offices of the daily 24 Heures Chrono at about 8:30 p.m...

Newsprint producers are feeling the heat of a 30-40 per cent increase in the waste newspaper prices over the first quarter, says a report in Business Standard. “We were buying waste newspaper at Rs 7,000-8,000 a tonne in the previous quarter. Now, we pay Rs 11,000-12,000 a tonne. This has an impact of about Rs 5,400 on every tonne of newsprint made as 1.35 tonne waste paper is required to produce...

A journalist and three crew members of private TV channels were roughed up, allegedly by pro-strike activists in various places, when they were covering the general strike, called by Leftist trade unions here on wednesday, police said, according to a Press Trust of India (PTI) report. Some details: Amrita TV Chief Reporter Deepak Dharmadam was traded blows by a group of persons when he was moving...