2005-2014

(BIANET/IFEX) - The Istanbul 10th Penal Court has sentenced "Hürriyet" newspaper journalist Sebati Karakurt to an advance payment of 455 YTL (approx. US$350). Karakurt is being tried for an interview he conducted with Kurdish Kongra-Gel militants on Kandil Mountain in Northern Iraq. He faces a possible prison sentence. Hasan Kilic and Necdet Tatlican, editors at the newspaper, have been ordered by...

Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, said some jobs will be cut after the company's $5.2 billion sale to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. ``Where job cuts are unavoidable, we will communicate that as soon as practical,'' Dow Jones Chief Executive Officer Rich Zannino said in a regulatory filing today. Employees who lose their jobs will receive severance and...

New York, September 10, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists mourns the death of three Mexican reporters killed during a blast on Sunday night while covering a collision between a truck carrying dynamite and a vehicle in the northern Coahuila state. At least 34 people were killed and 150 injured in the explosion, The Associated Press reported. Monclova-based reporters David Herrera from the...

It's just the kind of thing you don't want at an event dedicated to improving communication between scientists and the rest of the world - a row about the way a particular piece of science is reported. But that's what the British Association for the Advancement of Science has had to contend with on the opening day of its annual Science Festival in York. Last Thursday, the Association held a press...

New Delhi: The CEO and editor of the Live India television news channel that broadcast a fake sting operation that purported to show the alleged involvement of a teacher in a prostitution racket and set off a riot in the process said the reporter who carried out the investigation was a "criminal and breached the trust". "The reporter kept me in dark and breached the trust. He is a criminal and a...

(CEPET/IFEX) - Mexico, 10 September 2007 - The Office of the Attorney General of Sinaloa ordered the temporary suspension from duty of policemen Roberto Carlos Barceló Villagrán Torres and Jorge Zataráin. The two officers are under investigation in the assault upon photojournalist Luis Fernando Nájera of the daily "El Debate" and the weekly "Ríodoce". The officers stand accused of abuse of...

Outside of a newsroom, a half-hour delay in obtaining video may seem like a minor inconvenience at best. But to television news executives, the lag in catching up to the competition can be a challenge. That was the predicament CNN faced just after 3:15 p.m. on Friday, as a grainy 75-second tape of Osama bin Laden’s latest message began running in a seemingly endless loop on the cable news network...

Reporters Without Borders learnt today the two-year prison sentence which a Minsk judge secretly passed on opposition activist Andrei Klimau on 1 August for an article on the Internet. The sentence was revealed by a prosecutor’s office spokesman on 7 September and was officially confirmed today. Arrested on 3 April, Klimau was transferred to a Minsk prison on 11 June. In a trial secretly held on 1...

AS WE count down to a federal election, Rupert Murdoch's vast Australian newspaper empire will no doubt report and comment on every last aspect of the contest, including whether our democratic processes are fair and transparent. Across the Pacific, New York's Hudson Theatre will host a different type of election on October 19, when Murdoch's shareholders in News Corporation gather for the 2007...

Bangladesh's first and only 24-hour news channel has gone off air days after broadcasting last month’s student-led anti-government riots. The Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission told the CSB News station it would be permanently closed if it fails to satisfactorily explain its registration status in seven days, said Hummam Quader Chowdhury, director of Focus Mult, the company that...