2005-2014

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, July 19, 2007 - The Committee to Protect Journalists expressed concern today at the imprisonment of Anatoly Sardayev, founder and editor-in-chief of the independent weekly newspaper Mordoviya Segodnya (Mordoviya Today) in the city of Saransk, the capital of the central Russian republic of Mordoviya. The Lenin District Court in Saransk found Sardayev guilty on June 29 of...

(CMFR/IFEX) - After three long years, the wheels of justice may finally catch up with the killers of an Ilocano broadcast journalist, one of the 33 journalists killed in the line of duty during the Arroyo Administration. Currently being tried in Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 54, the Roger Mariano case is moving towards a resolution. Two witnesses have positively identified Senior Police...

An institute in Egypt has published a book on issues of free speech and religion, in response to the controversy over Danish cartoons that depicted the Prophet Mohammed. The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) announced the publication of "Religion and Freedom of Expression: Freedom-Related Problems in Different Societies." The book aims to encourage dialogue between Egyptian and...

The BBC was plunged into fresh controversy yesterday over faked phone-ins after an inquiry unearthed serious breaches in six shows including the charity telethons, Comic Relief, Children in Need and Sport Relief. Mark Thompson, the corporation's director general, ordered all phone-related competitions on television and radio to cease from midnight last night, while interactive and online...

On May 14, more than 100 reporters, editors and executives clustered in The Wall Street Journal’s main newsroom to mark the retirement of Peter R. Kann, the longtime leader of their corporate parent, Dow Jones & Company. Mr. Kann, in rolled-up shirtsleeves, was typically self-effacing about his own contributions to the company. But the celebration of the past was muted by worry about The Journal’s...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the government’s decision to obstruct foreign and Burmese press coverage of a national convention that has the job of writing a new constitution. No foreign journalist has been given a visa, while Burmese journalists were granted only very limited access to yesterday’s opening session. “This convention is in fact an institutional sham, and the military...

The resumption of broadcasting by Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) on cable and satellite on 16 July 2007 has been followed by an announcement by information and communication minister William Lara that the law will amended to oblige pay-TV cable and satellite broadcasters to carry the same occasional government programming that terrestrial broadcasters are already obliged to transmit. The system...

The BBC suspended several editorial staff over the phone-in scandal today as Scotland Yard revealed the Corporation may face a criminal investigation. A BBC statement said: "We can confirm that a small number of staff have been asked to step aside from their duties whilst we review issues surrounding the incidents referred to yesterday. "We would like to stress that this should not be taken to...

July 19 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc., with sales slowing after a sevenfold increase in the past three years, is seeking acquisitions worldwide. Google says it has about a dozen people weighing deals that might be financed with stock and its $11.9 billion in cash and marketable securities. The owner of the most-popular Internet search engine announced eight purchases in the second quarter, its...

MOSCOW -- Once, Andrei Kalitin was part of a new breed of young, hot-shot Russian journalists, riding the wave of openness that washed over the country when the former Soviet Union collapsed. As a reporter for the independent, investigative television program Sovershenno Sekretno (Top Secret), Mr. Kalitin covered war, organized crime and political scandal with equal gusto - and collected a slew of...