2005-2014

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A group of leading editors in Nepal have accused Maoists, who are now part of the interim government, of attacking press freedom through a "sinister pattern of intimidation and threats". Ten editors of leading newspapers, magazines and a television station said that Maoist unions, demanding better conditions for workers, had even entered newspaper offices to physically...

SACRAMENTO -- Amid concern over the frenzy of entertainment blogs and tabloids competing for inside information on Paris Hilton's days in jail and Mel Gibson's tirade during a drunk-driving arrest, state lawmakers have taken steps to clamp down on some forms of checkbook journalism. A bill wending its way through the Legislature would make it a crime for law enforcement or court employees to...

Two Moroccan journalists who published a secret government document about terrorist threats against Morocco have been handed down prison sentences. Abderrahim Ariri, publisher of the Moroccan weekly Al-Watan Al An, and Mustafa Hormatallah, a journalist for the paper, were convicted Wednesday by a criminal court in Casablanca of “concealing items derived from a crime” under article 571 of the...

A group of Shiv Sena activists yesterday ransacked the Mumbai office of weekly Outlook to protest an article in the magazine that featured party chief Bal Thackeray in a list of "villains". The activists barged into the office located in Raheja Chambers in the business district of Nariman Point in the afternoon and asked for the editor. They started ransacking the office on being told that no...

Internet users in the United States (US) are spending nearly half their online time visiting content, a 37 per cent increase in share of time from four years ago. Katrina damages. Quality content sites see a consistent pattern -- major news drives traffic spikes, but traffic remains consistently higher even after the event. Major news events such as Hurricane Katrina (above) and high profile...

The people who run journalism and mass communication (JMC) schools in the United States (US) are overwhelmingly white, and two-thirds of them are male — even though about two-thirds of the students today are female. Those findings come from a new survey of administrators by Thomas Kunkel, dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Kunkel is the new president of...

Four Mexican journalists who were detained by soldiers during a drug raid were abused and assaulted during their detention. Crime reporter Sinhué Samaniego Osoria spoke to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Monday and detailed the abuse that he and three other reporters suffered during their arrest by soldiers last week in the northern state of Coahuila. Mexican soldiers patrol a highway

Two journalists of state-owned RadioTélévision Nationale Congolaise (RTNC) have been freed by a Kinshasa court after paying bail of $120 each. Vincent Hata and Michel Shango were arrested on July 26 for union activity and taken to the prosecutor’s office on August 8. A third RTNC journalist who was arrested with them, Eugène Risasi Ntambwe, was released on July 31. President Joseph Kabila

A court in the Guinean capital of Conakry has handed down suspended prison sentences to two private newspaper directors in connection with articles alleging corruption by a former government minister, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local journalists.. A man walks in an empty Conakry street in January 2007, following clashes with police forces. Over three million

The people who run journalism and mass communication (JMC) schools in the United States (US) are overwhelmingly white, and two-thirds of them are male — even though about two-thirds of the students today are female. Those findings come from a new survey of administrators by Thomas Kunkel, dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Kunkel is the new president of...