2005-2014

Dozens of Sri Lankan journalists took to the streets to condemn censorship and support a columnist who exposed alleged corruption in the purchase of second-hand supersonic jets. Reporters, cameramen and editors carried placards and chanted slogans outside the main railway station in Colombo Thursday, expressing solidarity with Iqbal Athas of the Sunday Times, news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP)

The International Press Institute (IPI), and its affiliate, the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), are becoming increasingly concerned about possible political pressure on the Slovenian media. One of the allegations is that the Slovenian government is indirectly influencing the media through its exploitation of business relationships with companies that have financial holdings in a...

Only days after a Danish labour court granted freelance journalists the right to be represented by their union in bargaining arrangements a landmark collective agreement has been reached with one of the country’s major publishers. The International Federation of Journalists today welcomed the signing of an agreement between the Danish Journalists’ Union and Aller Press, which controls 80 per cent...

On the eve of Uzbekistan’s national holiday tomorrow, Reporters Without Borders condemns the severity of governmental repression of independent news media and human rights activists, especially when they try to point out the lack of democracy and freedoms, combat discrimination or expose corruption or torture. “In office since independence in 1991 and reelected for five years in 2000, President...

A last-minute agreement between Swedish Journalists' Union SJF and the Swedish Newspaper Publishers' Association over new pay and conditions for the country's journalists Thursday averted a major confrontation between more than 5,000 newspaper journalists and the country’s press employers. The deal means that industrial action planned to start mid-day Thursday was called off. The action would have...

A court in Russia’s west-central republic of Tatarstan has convicted five members of a criminal gang in the 2000 murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Igor Domnikov, the newspaper reported Thursday. The convictions are the first involving a journalist murdered for his or her work since 2000, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). During that time, CPJ found, 14 journalists have been...

An investigative journalist in Sri Lanka has been facing death threats after he made startling revelations about Sri Lanka’s purchase of Mig-27 fighter jets from Ukraine. Press freedom organisation have urged European and US embassies to do their utmost to protect Iqbal Athas of the Sunday Times, after receiving an email from the journalist in which he said he feared for his life and had gone into...

RARELY if ever has a company risen so fast in so many ways as Google, the world's most popular search engine. This is true by just about any measure: the growth in its market value and revenues; the number of people clicking in search of news, the nearest pizza parlour or a satellite image of their neighbour's garden; the volume of its advertisers; or the number of its lawyers and lobbyists. Such...

Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- CNN, Time Warner Inc.'s global cable- television news channel, will stop using Reuters Group Plc's news service starting tomorrow, according to an internal e-mail. ``We are making significant investments in our own newsgathering while simultaneously reducing our reliance on agency material,'' according to the e-mail sent to employees by Atlanta-based CNN International's...

Reporters Without Borders today drew the international community’s attention to the rapidly deteriorating condition of imprisoned journalist Faramaz Allahverdiyev. According to his wife, Tahira Allahverdiyeva, he is “close to death.” He has already undergone an operation and doctors say another one would not improve his condition. A reporter with the independent daily Nota Bene, he has been in...