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LONDON: Lord Deedes, a vaunted British journalist and former politician and close friend of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has died, the Telegraph Media Group said Friday. He was 94. Deedes, who edited the Daily Telegraph newspaper for 12 years and served as a Conservative lawmaker for 24 years, was still writing regular columns up until his death, which followed a short illness. He...

The Chinese government’s announced crackdown on “false news” and “illegal news coverage” could be yet another direct threat to media freedom in China, Human Rights Watch has said. The crackdown adds to the Chinese government’s existing arsenal of vaguely-worded prohibitions, such as laws against “spreading rumours,” which help stifle independent reporting through the threat of serious legal...

Hundreds of journalists marched silently Wednesday in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi with their mouths gagged to protest a bill that would restrict press freedom, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. The law, which would force editors to name their sources if a story led to a court cases, was sent to President Mwai Kibaki last week for review. Journalists with their mouths taped

A peaceful march led by photojournalists in DRC’s capital, Kinshasa, to demand justice for last week’s assassination of freelance photojournalist Patrick Kikuku Wilungula was Thursday interrupted and dispersed by police, according to press freedom group Journaliste en Danger and local journalists. Police turned back at least 200 photographers who were silently walking through Kinshasa’s central...

A Tamil journalist was attacked with acid in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo just as he left hospital where he was undergoing treatment after an assault by soldiers in June, the Free Media Movement (FMM) has reported. A Sri Lankan policeman stands guard beside the bed of KP Mohan (right), an ethnic Tamil Journalist, in the National Hospital in Colombo August 16. An unidentified gang threw acid at...

(IAPA/IFEX) - MIAMI, Florida (August 16, 2007) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today welcomed the recent conviction of one of the masterminds of the April 20, 2004 murder of Paraguayan journalist Samuel Román. On August 10 a jury, after deliberating for more than 12 hours, found Eurico Mariano, former mayor of the city of Coronel Sapucaia, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul...

NEW YORK: The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News are the latest newspapers to join the Yahoo alliance. With the addition of Philly.com, the online home to both newspapers, the partnership with the portal consists of 19 publishing companies representing close to 400 newspapers. "The open nature of the partnership between the newspapers and Yahoo has made this the solution of choice for the...

CUERNAVACA, Mexico – The general manager of a local newspaper was attacked by three unidentified assailants who warned him that he was a marked man. Eolo Pacheco Rodriguez, general manager of El Regional del Sur, in the central city of Cuernavaca, was dragged by three assailants into a truck and then beaten Wednesday afternoon, local news media reported. Before they let Pacheco go, the attackers...

Several reporters and their family members have sued Hewlett-Packard Co and some of its officers alleging the technology giant violated their privacy in a hunt for the source of boardroom leaks. The five lawsuits brought by Rachel Konrad, Dawn Kawamoto, Stephen Shankland, Thomas Shankland and Thomas Krazit seek unspecified damages, Reuters reported. Former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia...

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and the Breakfast Serials publishing company are offering newspapers the opportunity to commemorate International Literacy Day on September 8 by publishing a free serialised story to encourage reading in the home. The 17-part story of the Chinese fable, "The Monkey King," is being made available to newspapers in 800-word segments with illustrations and an...