2005-2014

New York, November 5, 2007—Pakistan’s government has escalated its efforts since the weekend to silence the press by harassing journalists, attempting to shut down printing presses, and ordering that articles critical of the government be altered, Pakistani journalists told CPJ. According to news editors at the Urdu-language Daily Ausaf in Islamabad and at the Express in Lahore, the papers were...

PARIS (Reuters) - A French journalist arrested with members of the Zoe's Ark group in Chad as they tried to fly 103 African children to Europe said on Monday they had displayed "dramatic amateurishness" and lied about their plans. Marc Garmirian, one of three French reporters released on Sunday, interviewed members of the group during the operation and filmed them putting bandages on children to...

Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The man convicted of murdering British Broadcasting Corp. journalist Jill Dando began a second appeal today with his lawyer arguing that vital information used to secure his conviction is ``unsafe.'' ``An important plank,'' of the evidence used to convict Barry George in 2001 is unreliable, his lawyer, William Clegg QC, told the Court of Appeal. Dando presented the news for...

New Delhi, Nov 05: Uma Khurana, the teacher who figured in a fake TV sting operation, on Monday filed a criminal case in a court here against `Live India` channel and its CEO and reporter for defaming her by showing her as running an alleged prostitution racket. Khurana in her complaint alleged that the channel`s CEO Sudhir Chaudhary and its reporter Prakash Singh had full knowledge and reason to...

New Delhi (PTI): Prakash Singh, the sacked reporter of a TV news channel and his associate Virender Arora were on Monday granted bail by a court here after the completion of the investigation into the fake sting operation. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Alok Aggarwal released Singh, the 'Live India' reporter and Arora on bail after presenting a personal bond of Rs 50,000 and one surety...

Arbil, Iraq, November 5, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists concluded a two-week fact-finding mission to Iraqi Kurdistan today by calling on Iraqi Kurdish leaders to investigate a spate of unsolved assaults on outspoken journalists, and by urging legislators to remove vague prohibitions from a press bill now before parliament. CPJ met with dozens of journalists from the official and...

President Thabo Mbeki's political adviser, a foreign ministry official, and a businessman have made a bid to take over Johncom, one of South Africa's most influential media groups, including a newspaper which has frequently been critical of the government. The move has drawn criticism from Mr Mbeki's opponents, who accuse him of hurting South Africa's democracy by purging opponents and stifling...

Mumbai: Media Research Users Council (MRUC), the body that audits the much- sought-after print readership figures in India, said it will delay the release of Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2008 Round One because of attempts by at least one publication to influence readership. The IRS is a biannual readership survey that is used by newspapers and magazines to assess their relative competitiveness...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Do you find yourself going online more and more? You're not alone. Four out of five U.S. adults go online now, according to a new Harris Poll. The survey, which polled 2,062 adults in July and October, found that 79 percent of adults -- about 178 million -- go online, spending an average 11 hours a week on the Internet. "We're up to almost 80 of adults who now are online, or...