2005-2014

In the long-standing battle for journalistic freedom, the victor is the Bush Administration and its embedded media program in Iraq. Journalists embedded with American troops emphasised military successes more often than they covered the invasion’s consequences for Iraqi citizens. These findings are from a study by sociologist Andrew M Lindner, writing in the spring issue of the American

Authorities in Somalia’s breakaway region of Puntland freed a broadcast corporation chief held on charges that his media outlets incited political upheaval, he told AFP Saturday.Mowlid Haji Abdi was released late Friday after being detained for hours following a police raid on the premises of Somalia Broadcasting Corporation, which operates radio and television stations. "I got my freedom back...

TAM, the JV between Nielson Media and Kantar Media, which measures television viewership across 40 countries, including India, has criticised the Indian government over its efforts to intervene in this space, the Economic Times has reported. It reported: “TAM does not see any role for the government to intervene in any form into this industry exercise, nor does it foresee any requirement of any...

Chinese authorities have freed a Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) reporter and a cameraman, the public broadcaster said Friday. The pair, together with a Chinese builder they were supposed to interview, the worker's brother-in-law and an interpreter, had been arrested Friday morning in Henan province. All five were subsequently released. YLE said Pirkko Pöntinen, the reporter, and Mika Mattila...

There's renewed international concern for Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh, a young Afghan journalist sentenced to death for blasphemy. The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders is urging the Afghan government to cooperate with the lawyer of Kambakhsh, who remains jailed in Kabul awaiting an appeal hearing, Radio Free Europe / Radoi Liberty (RFE/RL) has reported. Nearly two months have passed since...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to veto a bill that would reverse efforts to reform Kyrgyzstan’s state television and radio company (KTR) into a public broadcaster. Kyrgyzstan’s parliament passed the bill on April 24. It gives the president the right to appoint KTR’s chief executives and affirms the state’s monopoly on national...

The Coahuila State Congress in Mexico has approved amendments classifying the killing of people in retaliation for their journalism as a particularly serious crime, comparable to aggravated homicide. This means that such killings will now be considered very serious and those responsible will face sentences of up to 60 years in prison, ARTICLE 19 has reported. In order to implement the mechanisms...

(Reuters): When Conde Nast launched its premium lifestyle magazine Vogue in India last year, it carried a whopping 168 pages of advertisements of a total 400 pages. Now, the publisher is preparing to launch its luxury men’s magazine GQ and expects a similar rush of advertisers in Asia’s third-largest economy, where rising incomes and growing literacy are boosting readership and revenues of...

A month after journalist Fadel Shana was killed by an Israeli tank crew in the Gaza Strip, Reuters renewed its demand on Thursday for a prompt explanation from the Israeli army of why it fired on its cameraman. Shana, a 24-year-old Palestinian, was killed on April 16 along with eight mostly teenage bystanders by darts known as flechettes that burst out of a tank shell in mid-air. Shana had been...

A month after his 15-year association with The Asian Age ended, eminent journalist and author M.J. Akbar's new political magazine Covert hit the news stands on Wednesday, the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) has reported. "The ideology of the magazine is the ideology of my own profession - journalism. There should be space for every viewpoint as long as there is logic and rationale and it is not a...