2005-2014

A newspaper editor will be go on trial over his paper's recent reports questioning the health of Egypt's 79-year-old president, Hosni Mubarak. Ibrahim Eissa, editor of the independent daily Al-Dustor, was questioned last week for printing the rumours and released without bail, but the general prosecutor decided Tuesday to send the case to trial, the MENA news agency reported. Eissa's trial on...

If a new crop of user-news sites and measures of user activity on mainstream news sites are any indication, the news agenda of the future will be more diverse, more transitory, and often draw on a very different and perhaps controversial list of sources, according to a new study. The report, released by the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ), compared the news agenda of the mainstream...

(SEAPA/IFEX) - The Burmese junta has been tapping land lines and cutting off mobile phone connections of journalists and democracy activists in the highly restrictive and secretive country since 8 August 2007, according to information only recently leaked by a source of the global organisation of exiled journalists, Burma Media Association (BMA). It would appear that, despite already having full...

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has welcomed a last-minute agreement between an international coalition of news media and the International Rugby Board (IRB), and has called on sports events organisers to respect the rights of news organisations to freely cover sports and to eliminate all restrictions on legitimate press coverage. Argentina's fans celebrate during the group D Rugby World...

Today is a sad anniversary for the media and journalists in Central Asia as it was exactly a year ago that it emerged that Ogulsapar Muradova had died as result of mistreatment in a prison in Turkmenistan and Jamshid Karimov was reported missing in the central city of Jizzak in Uzbekistan, resurfacing two weeks later in a Samarkand psychiatric hospital to which he had been confined against his...

Conservative syndicated columnists in the United States (US) get more space than their progressive counterparts, a new study has revealed. Though papers may be "willing to consider" progressive syndicated columnists, this unprecedented study reveals the true extent of the dominance of conservatives. The findings are based on the survey carried out by Media Matters for America which looked at 96...

Pakistani journalists were among those beaten up by security personnel during the Monday morning arrival of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad. According to reporters at the scene, the violence went far beyond the pushing and shoving that can occur at such breaking news events. A Pakistani Police car follows buses carrying journalists and the staff members of the former prime minister

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - I am in a car full of journalists driving from the funeral of a colleague murdered hours earlier in Mogadishu for doing his job. We don't get far. An explosion throws our vehicle up and fills it with excruciating heat. Black smoke billows about us. I can feel the pressure rushing up inside my clothes, my neck splits open. Reuters correspondent in Somalia Sahal Abdulle is...

A Moroccan journalist sentenced to eight months in prison in August for publishing secret military intelligence documents was released on probation Tuesday by the appeals court in Casablanca. "I am happy to be free and to rejoin my family after being unjustly deprived of my freedom for several weeks," Mustapha Hurmatallah said after emerging from Casablanca's Okacha prison. A visibly relaxed Allah

Sex, lies and videotape — the story had all the elements of a successful TV sting operation. There was a public-school teacher accused of forcing her students into prostitution. There was the innocent victim, and the astute and fearless reporter exposing the racket. When it aired, the story provoked predictable public outrage, and the accused teacher, Uma Khurana, was set upon by an enraged mob...