2005-2014

New Delhi: Some mediapersons were roughed up by police at the venue of the day-long AICC session here, prompting Congress president Sonia Gandhi to tender an apology. The unsavoury incident occurred when scribes were stopped from entering the Talkatora Stadium by the police in the morning hours, leading to heated exchange of words between them. Police denied entry claiming that the stadium was...

BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi television reporter was kidnapped on his way to work in central Baghdad, his station said Saturday, while the U.S. military reported that troops had killed six suspected militants in a raid. Muntadhar al-Zaidi, a 28-year-old reporter for the Iraqi satellite channel al-Baghdadiyah, disappeared Friday, according to an editor at the channel. The editor spoke on condition of...

BBC chiefs have ordered a wide-ranging review of Scottish news coverage, amid growing claims licence fee payers are being short-changed north of the Border. Scots get just 3% of the corporation's budget despite making up 8.4% of the UK's population, and there is concern that London-based BBC news executives are failing to cover major events in Scotland, particularly since devolution and the...

KHARTOUM, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Two Sudanese journalists have been convicted of publishing an article criticising security services for detaining four other journalists, their colleagues said on Sunday. Al-Fatih Mahjoub Irwaha, editor in chief of Arabic daily Al-Sudani, and his deputy and columnist Nurelden Madini, are facing two months in prison after refusing to pay a fine for defamation, staff at...

WHEN Hurricane Katrina hit America’s Gulf coast late in the summer of 2005, the Daily Mail was there. But headlines such as “City sunk by the wrath of Katrina” and “Come hell or high water, the music will go on”, were only the beginning of its involvement in a disaster that claimed 1,800 lives. Beyond the trenchant prose of the voice of middle England, Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), the...

An inquest report has established with great detail that the Indonesian army was responsible for the death of five British, Australian and New Zealander journalists in East Timor in 1975. The report clearly shows they were eliminated because they too much about Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor, which was just getting under way. Shirley Shackleton, widow of one of the five journalists killed in...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The widow of a Pakistani journalist, shot dead last year after reporting that an al Qaeda leader was killed by a U.S. missile, was killed in a bomb blast on Saturday in a northwestern tribal region, a family member said. The bomb planted outside the family house in the town of Mir Ali, in the North Waziristan region near the Afghan border, went off early in the morning...

News channels on the Pakistani networks GEO TV and ARY Digital were ordered by authorities to halt transmission Friday from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after they refused to sign a Pakistani government-mandated “code of conduct.” Pakistani journalists hold placards at a protest camp against the media crackdown by the government in Islamabad, Pakistan on Tuesday, November 13, 2007. Authorities...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and UNESCO will collaborate on global efforts to forge universal standards towards building a multilingual cyberspace. The three agencies organised a workshop on this subject during the second Internet Governance Forum (IGF) taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 12-15, 2007...

On October 7, 2006, after a six-month trial, the three hired assassins who killed Marlene Garcia-Esperat, a Filipino newspaper columnist and radio commentator who probed government corruption, were sentenced to life imprisonment. Marlene Garcia-Esperat was an accidental journalist. A chemist for the agriculture department on the southern island of Mindanao in the early 1990s, she was scrounging to...