2005-2014

A US federal judge has asked five journalists to identify the government officials who leaked details to them about a scientist under scrutiny for mailed anthrax attacks in 2001. The ruling is a victory for Hatfill, a bioterrorism expert who has argued in a civil suit that the government violated his privacy rights and ruined his chances at a job by unfairly leaking information about the probe...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called again for defamation law reform in the Philippines, after the latest round of libel cases against journalists threaten to suffocate the country’s freedom of expression. According to IFJ affiliate, the National Union of Philippines (NUJP), a libel suit worth PHP 30 million was filed by Filipino boxer and International Super Featherweight...

Portugal President Anibal Cavaco Silva has vetoed the new Journalist Statute which threatened journalists’ rights to protect their sources and undermined their authors’ rights. The Portuguese Union of Journalists just started a protest action against Portuguese media group Controlinvest who, anticipating the effects of the law, announced the publication from September of a free newspaper made

Various media outlets in Arauca continue to face difficulties following the insistence by the guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC) that they broadcast a FARC press release or face being declared military targets. FARC guerrillas. Two Meridiano 70 journalists have been killed in the last four years due to their work. Another...

Freelance Uzbek journalist Jamshid Karimov, being held against his will in a psychiatric hospital since September 2006, has reported in a message smuggled out to friends that his health is declining and he attributes this to the psychotropic drugs he is being given and the harassment to which he is being subjected. He has complained of memory loss, difficulty concentrating and a partial loss of

An Eritrean editor with state-owned Eri-TV who attempted to flee his country's regime has gone missing since trying to slip over the dangerous border to Ethiopia in May. Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) voiced concern Monday about the fate of Johnny Hisabu, an editor with state-owned Eri-TV, who disappeared in late May after trying to flee across the border into Ethiopia. There are unconfirmed

The Delhi High Court will hear the final arguments in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case today, says an Asia News International (ANI) report. Shivani, a journalist with the Indian Express, was found murdered on January 23, 1999. Suspended Haryana IPS officer R K Sharma, is a key accused in the case. Sharma, along with five co-accused - - Pradeep Sharma, Satya Prakash, Ved Prakash Sharma, Ved alias...

Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Tribune Co. said its $8.2 billion sale to a group led by billionaire Sam Zell is still on, disputing an analyst's report that said the odds of the deal closing as scheduled are no better than 50-50. Shares of Tribune fell the most in almost five years after Craig Huber of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. cut his earnings estimates for the second-largest U.S. newspaper publisher...

Ignored or shunned by almost every cable TV provider in the U.S., the Al Jazeera English news channel has turned to the Internet to reach American viewers. Since April, when Al Jazeera struck a distribution deal with YouTube, the popular video site owned by Google Inc., the channel has received 2 million hits and on one day last month was ranked first, ahead of Paris Hilton and other staple fare...

If the words "print" and "media" conjure up images of plummeting profits, shrinking readership and editors tearing their hair out as they attempt to staunch the exodus to the online universe, you clearly aren't thinking of India. As the country celebrates the 60th anniversary of its independence from Britain, newspapers are flourishing, with growth projections that would impress even the savviest...