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Reporters Without Borders is outraged by an assault on journalist Tomás Eliaschev on 13 September in Buenos Aires in connection with a labour dispute. Eliaschev is the editor of perfil.com, a news website that is part of the Perfil press group. The attack is indicative of the terrible climate currently afflicting the Argentine news media. The press freedom organisation also condemns the arrest and...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A judge on Tuesday ordered Star Tribune publisher Par Ridder to leave his job for a year, a sweeping victory for the rival St. Paul Pioneer Press, which had accused its former publisher of misusing proprietary information. Ridder's actions when he joined the Star Tribune in March caused the Pioneer Press "irreparable harm," Judge David C. Higgs wrote. He said an injunction was...

NEW YORK: Almost 50% of people in Canada's four largest markets read a newspaper on an average weekday, according to the latest results from the Newspaper Audience Databank (NADbank). NADbank measures readership for Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Ottawa-Gatineau. The data for this survey was conducted in the fall of 2006 and the spring of 2007. Vancouver tops the four markets with the highest...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders is shocked by the violent death of Shankar Panthi, a correspondent of the local pro-Maoist "Naya Satta Daily" newspaper, in Sunawal, in the western district of Nawalparasi. His body, which bore the signs of injuries to several parts of his body, was found by police at a roadside near a petrol station on 14 September 2007. "The behaviour of the police in this...

(IPYS/IFEX) - On 15 September 2007, during an address broadcast on radio, President Rafael Correa asked the new Constituent Assembly, which will begin its deliberations on 30 September, to further regulate the media so as to "stop them from being able to manipulate information". The president made this request after declaring that the state should have more regulatory powers over media outlets...

(MFWA/IFEX) - On 13 September 2007, Asana Gordon, central regional correspondent of the Accra-based privately owned daily newspaper "Daily Dispatch", was barred from covering the Central Regional Health Service awards ceremony to honour stakeholders in the health sector by Clarence Lartey, the public relations officer of the Central Regional Coordinating Council (RCC). Media Foundation for West...

(IAPA/IFEX) - MIAMI, Florida (September 19, 2007) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today voiced concern to the Nicaraguan government at limits placed on newspaper production supplies as a result of a tax burden on the press, saying it contradicts principles of press freedom and free speech guaranteed under the Central American nation's Constitution. At issue is a dispute between the...

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) expressed again today its concern for the May 10 disappearance of journalists Gamaliel López and Gerardo Paredes of TV Azteca Noroeste and at the lack of progress in the investigations into their whereabouts. López is a reporter and Paredes a cameraman for the TV station located in Monterrey, in the northern Mexico state of Nuevo León. According to...

Bangalore, Sept. 19 (PTI): Seeking abolition of the Wage Board, the Indian Newspaper Society today accused the Central government of trying to curb the freedom of speech and independence of the media. “At a time when independent India boasts of a free and open economy, we are faced with yet another Wage Board– being the only industry in the country to have one”, INS President Hormusji N Cama said...

Reporters Without Borders and its partner organisation in Democratic Republic of Congo, Journalist in Danger (JED), are outraged that two petty criminals who were convicted by a military court of shooting UN radio journalist Serge Maheshe in the eastern city of Bukavu have written a letter accusing two military judges of bribing them to say two of Maheshe’s friends paid them to kill him. The two...