2005-2014

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Thursday said that an industry-led body should be responsible for the operational issues of television rating agencies. The regulator has issued draft recommendations on policy guidelines and operational issues for television rating points (TRPs), the Times of India has reported. TRAI has recommended that the industry initiative - Broadcast Audience...

A federal judge in Santa Ana declined Thursday to order a reporter to reveal the names of federal officials who leaked information to him for a 2006 story about a grand jury investigation into a scheme to send sensitive military technology to China, the Los Angeles Times has reported. The details: Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz was subpoenaed to testify in federal court by US District Judge...

A UN tribunal has convicted a journalist of contempt of court for publishing details about a protected witness who testified at the trial of Kosovo's former prime minister. The tribunal is trying those responsible for atrocities committed during the Balkan conflicts in the 1990s, says a Press Trust of India (PTI) report. Journalist Baton Haxhiu was also fined 7,000 Euros by Hague-based...

Iranian authorities have banned the evening edition of a large circulation newspaper for publishing news they said was harmful to the economy, according to news reports. "By a decision of the press supervisory board, Hamshahri evening edition has been banned. The reason for banning this publication was the propagation of untruthful news with the aim of creating disruption in the country's economic...

Unidentified individuals set fire to the home of critical journalist Jeso Carneiro on Sunday night in the northern city of Santarém. No one was injured but the house suffered considerable damage. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Brazilian authorities to investigate the attack and provide the necessary protection to allow Carneiro to continue working without...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the recent arrest and criminal defamation charges filed by the Malaysian government against prominent blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin, editor and founder of the Malaysia Today news website. Raja Petra was arrested and charged on July 17 at police headquarters in Kuala Lumpur and later released on bail, according to local news reports. The three...

A South African company, Globecast Satellite, which saw two of its employees acquitted of practicing journalism without accreditation in April 2008 by a Harare magistrate, is now being charged with illegal importation of broadcasting equipment in violation of the Broadcasting Services Act (BSA), according to the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA). At the commencement of the trial on July 15...

Tunisian journalist Slim Boukhdir has been released from prison four months before the end of his sentence. The freelance journalist, set free on July 21, was held since November 26, 2007 in very harsh prison conditions at the civil jail in Sfax, 230 km south of the capital. Boukhdir, 39, is correspondent for the pan-Arab London-based newspaper al Quds al Arabi and for the website of satellite...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called on Iranian authorities to release journalist Mahboubeh Karami of the government news agency ISNA at once. She has not seen a lawyer since her arrest in Tehran on June 13 after criticising the police for beating up demonstrators. The organisation is also concerned about the suspension of two weekly newspapers in the west of the country. "Mahboubeh Karami's...

A journalist of a Hindi daily in Sonepat has alleged that he was threatened by a BSP leader to stop filing stories against him and his party, the Indian Express has reported. Former MLA Dev Raj Dewan, however, denied that he had threatened Jatinder Saharan in his office on Sunday evening. "Allegations levelled against me are baseless and even mischievous and politically motivated to malign me in...