2005-2014

(Reuters) - Suspected Islamist insurgents shot dead a local journalist working for the BBC in southern Somalia on Saturday, witnesses said. A Reuters witness said gunmen confronted Nasteh Dahir outside his home in the port of Kismayu before shooting him in the chest and stomach. He died soon afterwards in hospital. Here is a chronology of journalists who have been attacked in Somalia since a...

Suspected Islamist insurgents shot dead a leading local journalist working for the BBC in southern Somalia on Saturday. A Reuters witness said gunmen confronted Nasteh Dahir Farah outside his home in the port of Kismayu before shooting him in the chest and stomach. He died soon afterwards in hospital. A group of armed men fired several shots at Farah as he made his way home from work, Paris-based...

Mexico is not at war. It is a democracy. And yet it is one of the world's most dangerous countries for the press. Twenty-one journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000, seven of them in direct reprisal for their work. Since 2005, seven others have gone missing. Mexico ranks 10th on CPJ's impunity index, along with such war-ravaged countries as Iraq, Somalia, and Sierra Leone. The impact of

The Washington Post Co is launching a new unit that will develop and manage a family of Web-based magazines, according to a Reuters report. The Slate Group plans to get into other new media ventures that it develops on its own or through acquisitions, the company said in a statement. "The rationale is that you can build an audience beyond Slate's existing audience in certain vertical or...

The BBC has dropped plans to create a "licence fee" option for users of its international news website who were outraged by the introduction of advertising last year, says a Guardian report. "We did look into it, but all the evidence from commercial operators is that what ever people say about wanting a subscription, it is not the case," BBC World managing director, Anne Barnard, said Thursday. "A...

Three years after the murder of Franco-Lebanese journalist Samir Kassir in Beirut, French and Lebanese judicial authorities continue to be slow and callous in their response in this case in which no suspect has been detained or charged. Kassir’s widow, Giselle Khoury, has almost given up as she says, "Resolution seems to me to be very far away, too far. The many political changes, not only in

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the attack by political activists on the home of Kumar Ketkar, editor of the Marathi language daily Loksatta, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra on June 5. The All-India Newspaper Employees’ Federation (AINEF), an affiliate of the IFJ, joined this call for action. The attack in Thane, a city adjoining the greater Mumbai...

The house of Loksatta editor Kumar Ketkar was attacked in Thane on Thursday morning by a pro-NCP group Shivsangram Sangathan protesting Ketkar editorial criticising the Maharashtra government's plans to erect a statue of Maratha King Chhatrapati Shivaji. The activists pelted stones damaging windowpanes of Ketkar's house and also tried to ransack it. Ketkar and his wife were in the house when the...

Three Somali journalists have been awarded the prestigious Hellmann/Hammett award in recognition for their journalism while risking their lives and suffering terrible hardships in the midst of Somalia’s worsening armed conflict. Abdullahi Mohammed Hassan, founder of the Ayaamaha newspaper; Mohamed Amiin Sheik Adow, of Radio Shebelle; and Abdi Dhaqane Ciye, a cameraman for HornAfrik media, were...

Afghan journalist Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, editor of the monthly Haqoq-e-Zan (Women’s Rights), has been released after being held for 86 days in an intelligence ministry prison in the holy city of Qom (150 km southwest of Tehran). “Nazab was held arbitrarily for three months,” Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) reported. “The conditions were difficult and he was in solitary confinement for most...