2005-2014

More Islamic countries have protested against a Swedish newspaper's publication of a cartoon that has been deemed offensive by Muslims. The Swedish government has, however, refused to apologise on behalf of the Nerikes Allehanda newspaper. The Egyptian ministry of religious endowments Sunday denounced the cartoon as "irresponsible and offensive", according to Kuwaiti news agency KUNA. "Such an...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - People ask if it is tough being a journalist in Iraq. For me the hardest job is being a mother. The daily fear for my son overwhelmed me last year when a car bomb exploded near our home during the fasting month of Ramadan. My son Hani, who was six at the time, had just finished playing soccer with his friends in the street. He came inside, sweaty and cheerful, washed his face...

NEW DELHI: In the backdrop of criticism against the television sting expose on a Delhi school teacher, who was allegedly pushing her students into prostitution, broadcasters have defended the sting operation describing it as an extension of investigative journalism and an expose of a terrible crime. The broadcasters rejected the suggestion, as made by some, that the I&B ministry's proposed content...

PODGORICA (Reuters) - Three attackers beat up the managing editor of Montenegro's top-selling daily Vijesti early on Saturday in what he said was an assault carried out by opponents of his paper's investigative reporting. Zeljko Ivanovic said he was leaving a restaurant where the paper was celebrating its 10th anniversary when three men attacked him with metal or wooden sticks, causing injuries...

Dubai: A court has dismissed a case against a local newspaper, its editor-in-chief and senior journalist along with a medical assistant from compensating a private hospital with Dh1 million, which was being claimed against defamation. Dubai Civil Court decided that the English newspaper, it's editor-in-chief and senior journalist didn't defame the hospital in the article which discussed the...

Public interest in natural disasters, sports and political scandals in the United States (US) has fallen in the last two decades, the first quite precipitously, a Pew Research Centre survey has found. Three categories of news shifted downwards, and two of those changes could conceivably be regarded as symbolic of greater seriousness. Interest in natural disasters fell precipitously from an index...

Google has struck deals with four major international news agencies that will see its Google News site become a publisher of their news stories. Google News allows consumers to search by keywords for news summaries and links to news stories, grouping together related stories based on a computer analysis of the material’s underlying thematic relationships. The service is available internationally...

China has adopted an emergency response law that bans the spread of false information, but also requires timely information from the government about major accidents, health threats and disasters. The law outlines punishments for media outlets that spread false information about disasters — a move that press freedom organisaitons say is designed to muzzle reporters. Relative of a miner who is...

A Port-au-Prince court has sentenced to life two men, Alby Joseph and Chéry Beaubrun, for the abduction and murder of Jacques Roche, the head of the Le Matin newspaper’s arts and culture pages. Roche was kidnapped on 10 July 2005 and was found dead four days later. Hundreds of mourners attend the funeral of Haitian journalist Jacques Roche, at the St Pierre Roman Catholic church in Petionville

The death of an Iraqi translator and interpreter employed by the US television network CBS News brings the number of journalists and media workers killed in Iraq since the start of the US-led invasion in March 2003 to 200, according to Reporters sans frontières (RSF). RSF voiced dismay on learning of the murder of Anwar Abbas Lafta, a translator and interpreter employed by CBS News. Lafta’s body...