2005-2014

Reporters Without Borders today expressed revulsion at the murder of Carlos Salgado, a satirical journalist on Radio Cadena Voces (RCV), who was shot dead yesterday in Tegucigalpa. Several members of staff at the radio, which was highly critical of the government, had recently been threatened. “The murder of Carlos Salgado confirms the deterioration in press freedom in Honduras (87th in Reporters...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the constant harassment of journalist Hakim Eldostu Mehdiyev’s family by local authorities in the autonomous republic of Nakhchivan since his detention for five days last month. Mehdiyev is regional correspondent for the Baku-based opposition newspaper Yeni Musavat. “Mehdiyev’s relatives have been threatened with reprisals and have been subjected to...

Two executives from Village Voice Media — a company that owns a number of alternative weeklies including The Village Voice, The LA Weekly and The Phoenix Times — were arrested Thursday night in Phoenix on charges that a story published earlier in the day in The Phoenix New Times revealed grand jury secrets. Michael Lacey, the executive editor, and Jim Larkin, chief executive, were arrested at...

Oct. 19, 2007 · A state judge in Utah told a local TV news reporter to produce a public service story as a consequence for unknowingly violating his order not to speak with potential jurors in the rape trial of a leader of a polygamist sect. Katie Baker, a reporter with KUTV in Salt Lake City, said she was unaware of the judge's order when she interviewed potential juror Mo Webb. Nonetheless...

SINGAPORE : More than 8 in 10 adults above 15 years old watch television on an average daily basis, according to a Nielsen Media Research survey. While this is a marginal decline from one year ago, Nielsen said free-to-air channels are holding their own against cable television and the Internet. If a viewer was watching television yesterday, chances are he would have been watching a local channel...

In a rare cross-industry accord, a consortium of media and Internet companies led by Walt Disney Co. and Microsoft Corp. have agreed to a set of rules they will abide by in the contentious area of posting copyright material on the Web. Disney and Microsoft, which have been negotiating a pact for the past nine months, have pulled together a group that also includes General Electric Co.'s NBC...

Social-networking sites will enlist 230 million active members by the end of the year and will keep attracting new users until at least 2009, according to an analyst report. But investors are still wary--and for good reason, as long-term growth is by no means certain. A report by U.K.-based Datamonitor, titled "The future of social networking: Understanding market strategic and technological...

While pundits are quick to predict the Internet will drive a stake into the heart of big media, executives from CBS and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) this week were defiant against the threat, saying the Web is less of an enemy and more of an opportunity to expand their businesses. During an onstage interview at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Amy Banse, president of Comcast's interactive division...

Fox Business Network, which launched Oct. 15, won’t be rated until sometime next year. But the fledgling financial service during its first four days on the air apparently took some viewers away from segment leader CNBC. CNBC saw viewership decline across several measures from Monday Oct. 15 through Thursday Oct. 18, when compared with prior-week results. However, CNBC officials note the network...

Reporters Without Borders hails a House of Representatives vote on 16 October approving, by a very large majority, a proposed Free Flow of Information Act that would protect journalists from having to reveal their confidential sources to federal courts. The press freedom organisation nonethless is concerned about the threat of a presidential veto that was brandished after the 16 October vote. “The...