2005-2014

Burma’s military government should immediately release all journalists arrested in connection with the Cyclone Nargis disaster, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has demanded. Four journalists are being detained by Burmese authorities, according to the Assistance Association of Political Prisoners Burma (AAPP), a Thailand-based assistance and rights monitoring group, and the Burma Media...

The man suspected of killing Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006 is hiding in Western Europe, Russia's chief criminal investigator said Tuesday, according to Reuters. Some details: "According to our information, the murderer is hiding in Western Europe," Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Prosecutor-General's investigation unit, was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency. "We even...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the Philippine government to fully investigate the shooting death of Robert "Bert" Sison Tuesday in Sariaya town, about 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Manila. Sison reported for the weekly Regional Bulletin, which has published articles on crime and stories critical of local officials. Sison, 60, was shot in his car by two unidentified gunmen...

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has protested the adoption by the Romanian Senate of a draft law obliging radio and television stations to transmit positive and negative news "in an equal proportion." "One can hardly think about a more absurd proposal than a 'good news and bad news' law," said EFJ Chairman Arne König on Tuesday. "This is obvious political interference in the editorial...

South Korean newspaper readership is falling, the Korea Press Foundation (KPF) said Monday. Only three to four people in every ten surveyed said they were newspaper subscribers, the media watchdog said, according to Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA). Details: KPF said it conducted the survey in one-to-one interviews with 5,000 adults between May 3 and June 9. KPF added that in 1996, seven in ten...

Wage board Saturday recommended an interim relief of 30 per cent of basic salary for journalist and non-journalist newspaper employees with effect from January 8, 2008. Briefing reporters after a meeting of the board under the chairmanship of Justice Narayan Kurup, board members said the decision was taken through voting after a detailed discussion. While representative of employees and...

The first edition of Business Bhaskar, the Hindi financial daily from Dainik Bhaskar was launched in Bhopal on June 27, televisionpoint.com has reported. Business Bhaskar will have an initial print run of more than 20,000 copies and the broadsheet is 12 colour pages, priced at Rs 1.50. To expand the business of Business Bhaskar, the company proposes to launch at least three more editions in Tier...

The Press Council of India has initiated suo motu action in the arrest of two journalists of a vernacular newspaper in Andhra Pradesh, the Press Trust of India has reported. In a letter to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, the media body said that the incident prima facie appears to pose threats to the free functioning of the Press. "As the statue of the Press Council statute...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the abduction, torture, and forcible psychiatric hospitalisation of Sazak Durdymuradov, a contributing reporter for the Turkmen Service of the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), in the Western city of Bakhaden. According to RFE/RL, Durdymuradov was seized by agents of the secret police (MNB) from his Bakhaden home on June 20...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has expressed shock at the wave of violence in the northern state of Chihuahua that has cost the life of Candelario Pérez Pérez, a 32-year-old journalist who worked as an editor on his father's crime magazine, Sucesos. Pérez was gunned down in the border town of Ciudad Juárez on June 23. The motive for the murder is not yet known. "So far there is no evidence of a...