2005-2014

Young adults experience news fatigue from being inundated by facts and updates and have trouble accessing in-depth stories. The Context-Based Research Group, an ethnographic research firm, has found that the news consumption behaviour of younger readers differs profoundly from that of previous generations. The research project, commissioned by the Associated Press in 2007, analysed the news

The European Court of Human Rights has found Greece guilty of violating freedom of expression by convicting the daily I Avgi and its editor, Konstantinos Karis, of libel in 2003 for describing former journalist Kyriakos Velopoulos as a “known out-an-out nationalist” in a June 2000 article, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Velopoulos, who was elected last year as a parliamentary...

A new study on the media habits of young people in three countries found that television continues to be the most important source of news and information for the young, despite the rise of the internet—and newspapers can win their attention as well. The survey of 3,500 young people between 15- and 29-years old in the United States, the Netherlands and Finland found that young people get their...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called for the news media that have been closed in the Palestinian territories since the start of the clashes to be allowed to resume operating. "No fewer that 17 news media have been forced to stop working since June 2007, when Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Authority withdrew to the West Bank," the press freedom organisation said....

A six-year jail sentence has been handed down to an outspoken Yemeni journalist accused of conspiring with anti-government rebels. A state security court in Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, Monday sentenced Abdel Karim al-Khaiwani, editor of an opposition news website, to six years in prison for being an alleged member of a cell of anti-government rebels and conspiring to carry out attacks on government...

There have been new developments in the investigation into the 1997 death of Jean-Pascal “JPK” Couraud, a leading investigative journalist based in Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia. According to a report on Le Monde’s website on June 6, the Papeete judge now in charge of the case, Jean-François Redonnet, searched the Paris headquarters of the General Directorate for External Security (DGSE...

The Sri Lankan defence ministry has initiated a campaign against independent news media, especially journalists who cover military affairs. The ministry’s website is carrying virulent attacks on journalists critical of the government, accusing them of being in cahoots with the “terrorist enemy,” the Tamil Tiger rebels. Two long articles—headlined “Stop media treachery against armed forces members...

Five kilos of explosive were set off early Sunday outside the daily El Correo’s premises in Zamudio, in Spain’s northern Basque region, destroying an external wall but not injuring any of the 50 employees inside. The Basque armed separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) is suspected to have been behind the incident. El Correo deputy editor José Miguel Santamaria told Paris-based Reporters sans...

The criminal case against Andrei Dumler, the head of the information agency Baikal Media Consulting (BMK), has been thrown out of court, the Moscow-based Centre for Journalism in Extreme Situations (CJES) has reported. The journalist was charged with slandering the department of the Federal Service for the Enforcement of Punishments (UFSIN) for the Republic of Buryatia. In November 2007, a report...

The publisher of a daily newspaper critical of the Arroyo government has been found guilty of libel and sentenced to a minimum of six months to a maximum of two years in prison. She was also ordered to pay P5 million (US$113,480) in moral damages and P33,732.25 (US$765) in civil damages, the Manila-based Centre for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) has reported. Makati Regional Trial Court...