2005-2014

Reporters Without Borders today protested at the brutal closure of Radio Orión in Pisco, southwestern Peru, using a bogus administrative reason to mask an act of censorship after the government made serious accusations against its proprietor. It also condemned pressure and threats made the same week against the community radio Cutivalú in Piura, in the northwest of the country, for refusing to...

NEW YORK: Anyone familiar with online rankings knows that, depending on the measurement service, the data tends to swing wildly. It's a problem not just with newspaper Web sites but also with the larger online world. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has been trying to hammer out a solution to address the problem where advertisers can effectively glean where the trends are going. As the...

NEW YORK, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Digital media monitoring company Attributor Corp plans to announce on Monday that it will help track content produced by Reuters Group Plc (RTR.L: Quote, Profile , Research) that finds its way onto the Internet. The explosion in the growth of blogs and social networks such as Facebook and News Corp's (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile , Research) MySpace, where consumers link to...

Manama: Bahrain's information ministry yesterday denied reports that it had granted Al Vefagh, the daily Arabic newspaper of the official Iranian news agency, the rights to publish in Bahrain. "The claims about issuing a circulation licence to the Iranian newspaper are untrue and lack credibility. We have never received a request from Al Vefagh," said Abdullah Yateem, the information...

A Chinese researcher for the New York Times who was arrested on charges of revealing state secrets and later convicted of fraud was released Saturday after serving a three-year prison sentence. On Saturday morning, Zhao Yan was greeted by family members and friends as he left a Beijing detention centre. He hugged his sister, daughter and others but said nothing to reporters. He later issued a...

NEW DELHI: A court in New Delhi on Saturday granted bail to aspiring journalist Rashmi Singh, co-accused in the fake sting operation case involving a government school teacher into an alleged prostitution racket. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Alok Aggarawal enlarged Rashmi Singh, 25, on bail on furnishing of a personal bond and a surety of Rs 20,000 each. "The accused Rashmi Singh...

Reporters Without Borders condemns a violent assault on Tope Abiola, the deputy editor of the privately-owned Nigeria Tribune daily newspaper, who was beaten unconscious by prison guards and police at Agadi prison in Ibadan (in the southwestern state of Oyo) on 11 September while trying to cover the aftermath of a riot by inmates. “Nigerian journalists are often subjected to violence on the least...

Reporters Without Borders calls on the authorities to investigate armed attacks on Radio Nuevo Mundo installations on 4 September in Salamá, in Baja Verapaz department, and on 11 September in Guatemala City. The ongoing elections have been marred by an alarming level of violent crime and the press freedom organisation urges the president who is elected in the 4 November run-off to immediately take...

The arrest of two Agence France-Presse reporters on September 12th is the latest in a string of cases of foreign journalists being obstructed in their work. They show that the less stringent regulations introduced in January are being applied erratically and only when less sensitive issues are involved. At least 32 foreign journalists have been detained or prevented by police from doing reports...

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- -- Colombian authorities on Thursday arrested two local politicians in connection with the April 2003 killing of Jose Emeterio Rivas, a radio reporter who had denounced links between local government and paramilitary groups. The arrests in the northern city of Barrancabermeja were welcomed by rights groups that have long complained of official impunity in Colombia. Last March...