2005-2014

The industry has tried to get the word out, but many consumers still aren't getting the message: In a year and a half, millions of television screens could go dark. Not the fancy high-definition TVs or those connected to cable or satellite. But the 70 million sets relying on rooftop or "rabbit ears" antennas will end up showing nothing but snow. Broadcasters will stop sending analog signals and...

TAIPING: An Indonesian construction worker claimed trial to raping a 34-year-old journalist from his home country. Remmang, 46, pleaded not guilty to raping the woman between 9pm on Sept 17 and 1am the next day at a kongsi house at the construction site of the Mara Junior Science College in Liman Kati, Kuala Kangsar. He also denied hurting her at the same time and place. Remmang, from Sulawesi...

Two Turkish policemen went on trial Friday for their role in a scandal which saw security forces pose for pictures with the suspected murderer of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, the official Anatolia news agency reported. The trial in the northern city of Samsun is the first time that members of the security forces have been brought before a court over the January 19 murder, which the

The Supreme Court Friday stayed the Delhi High Court order sentencing four employees of tabloid Mid Day to jail for publishing news reports about former chief justice YK Sabharwal. The apex court stayed the high court's September 21 ruling sentencing two journalists, a cartoonist and the publisher of the tabloid to four months imprisonment each for contempt of court following news reports...

ISLAMABAD, September 29: Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz was stopped by the security officials from leaving the Election Commission office, as the situation outside further deteriorated, when the Federal State Minister, Tariq Azeem was mobbed by the violent crowd and subjected him to severe torture. Earlier, the newsmen outside the Election Commission office were violently tackled and subjected to...

State-controlled Sri Lankan television station Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) has sent four of its journalists on compulsory leave after they submitted a letter stating that their professional rights had been disrespected and damaged. According to the Free Media Movement (FMM), SLRC Producers' Union Chairman Kanchana Marasinghe, Organiser Herbert Kumara Alagiyawanna, Athula Peiris and...

ASTANA (Reuters) - A photograph of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in tight swimming trunks triggered outrage in the parliament of the former Soviet state on Wednesday. "For me, he (Nazarbayev) is a God-appointed person," said Bekbolat Tleukhan, member of the pro-Nazarbayev Nur-Otan party that controls every seat in the lower house. "This is not just impolite, it's pure shame. ... It goes...

The Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) decreed on Tuesday that journalists should not be jailed over their work, two days after two were jailed for libel, the state WAM news agency reported. Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed al-Maktoum "has issued instructions ... not to imprison journalists for reasons related to their work," said the head of the National Media Council, Sheikh Abdullah bin...

Reporters Without Borders today voiced its concern about a series of attacks against the press in the run-up to regional elections in Colombia on 28 October. A crew from privately-owned television Caracol was yesterday the target of a vicious attack with machetes and stones while reporting on a scam in connection with land sales. A few days previously, a journalist on the privately-owned daily La...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Times may launch a free, tabloid-sized daily newspaper, Times Publisher David Hiller said on Thursday. Hiller, speaking at a luncheon in Los Angeles, said the new paper would be similar to Redeye, a paper published and distributed for free at commuter stations by the Chicago Tribune. The Tribune and the Times are both owned by Tribune Co, which is going...