2005-2014

The Guardian today launched its US website with an exclusive interview with presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The site, Guardianamerica.com, has been designed for the Guardian's growing US audience, which now accounts for nearly a third of Guardian Unlimited's readership. In the latest audited ABCe figures for August, Guardian Unlimited had 15.9 million unique users, of which the company...

Disgruntled fans of Sheffield Wednesday who vented their dissatisfaction with the football club's bigwigs in anonymous internet postings may face expensive libel claims after the chairman, chief executive and five directors won a high-court ruling last week forcing the owner of a website to reveal their identity. The case, featuring the website owlstalk.co.uk, is the second within days to...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders issued an urgent appeal to the international community for energetic measures towards the Somali government on behalf of the country's journalists after the murder in Mogadishu of Bashir Nur Gedi, the head of the Shabelle press group on 19 October 2007. Gedi is the eighth journalist to be slain this year in Somalia and the third leading media owner to be...

Reporters Without Borders today called on the Iraqi authorities to urgently establish a programme for protecting journalists after an armed group put a price on the head of public TV station Al-Iraqiya’s correspondent in Diyala, an eastern province where at least six journalists have been murdered. “It is vital that the Iraqi authorities at least try to guarantee the safety of journalists,” the...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed its concern over the worsening situation for journalists working in Afghanistan. Ariana Radio presenter Mohammad Hanif Elam has received several threats over the past five months as a result of his programme “Emroze Der Tarekh” (Today In History). According to IFJ associate the Afghanistan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA)...

How many people visited Style.com, the online home of Vogue and W magazines, last month? Was it 421,000, or, more optimistically, 497,000? Or was the real number more than three times higher, perhaps 1.8 million? The answer — which may be any, or none, of the above — is a critical one for Condé Nast, which owns the site, and for companies like Ralph Lauren, which pay to advertise there. Condé Nast...

About the same time that Rupert Murdoch was telling shareholders that his beloved News Corp. had become the world's most valuable media conglomerate, the company's worth was in the midst of sinking by $1.53 billion. But Friday's massive stock market sell-off didn't alter Murdoch's message. By the end of Friday trading, News Corp. sported a market capitalization of $67.79 billion, larger than Time...

MADRID, Spain: Spain's top-selling newspaper, El Pais, unveiled a new design on Sunday with greater emphasis on photographs and graphics, a different typeface and the goal of being the world's leading Spanish-language daily. The revamped look is the culmination of a 9-month project to overhaul the center-left newspaper that was founded in 1976, a year after the death of Gen. Francisco Franco. El...

New York, October 19, 2007 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is saddened that ARY One World TV cameraman Muhammad Arif was among the more than 130 people killed in the Thursday bombing in Karachi, according to the official Associated Press of Pakistan. We send our condolences to his wife and six children. Several others were injured in the twin blasts, which took place during a political...

SHIMLA, Oct. 20: The “sting operation” that had raised a fierce political storm in Himachal Pradesh three months ago turned out to be fake! The one-man Garg Inquiry Committee set up on the order of the Himachal High Court has submitted its report giving a clean chit to the then transport and tourism minister Mr GS Bali. The controversy that had provided ammunition to the Opposition, with the...