2005-2014

NEW YORK: The widow of Daniel Pearl has sued more than a dozen reputed terrorists and Pakistan's largest bank, blaming them for the torture and murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter in 2002. A complaint filed Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court by Mariane Pearl and her husband's estate alleges Habib Bank Ltd. of Karachi knowingly provided financial services for al-Qaida and other terrorist...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the detention of Abdirahman Mohammed Habane of Jamhuuriya, a daily newspaper based in Hargeisa, the capital of the breakaway state of Somaliland. He has been held since 12 July. “The hostility of the Somaliland authorities towards journalists must stop,” the press freedom organisation said. “Habane is the second journalist to be arrested in three weeks...

Reporters Without Borders today voiced its support for the demands of the family, friends and colleagues of Hrant Dink, a newspaper editor of Armenian descent who was gunned down in Istanbul exactly six months ago on 19 January 2007. “We call on the authorities to pursue their investigation and to shed light on all aspects of this case,” the press freedom organisation said. “The trial of Dink’s...

Even as News Corp. negotiated to buy Dow Jones & Co. over the past few weeks, a grim reality was increasingly evident to executives on both sides of the discussion: The downturn in the newspaper industry is getting worse. Last fall, newspaper executives and analysts were caught by surprise by the severity of a slump that took hold last summer. Since the beginning of this year, the rate of decline...

NEW DELHI: News channels in India are facing a qualitative crisis today because programmes that cater to the "lowest common denominator" are lapping up the viewers, according to heads of prominent news channels. The "race for eyeballs" is forcing news channels into crime shows and sex shows that are voyeuristic and unless the broadcasters regulate themselves now the government would impose a...

Google is expanding its US newspaper print ad sales experiment to involve 225 newspapers and giving all its advertisers the opportunity to place ads in papers covering the major metropolitan areas of the United States. The search giant started the test programme in November by allowing a limited number of advertisers to bid in online auctions for ads in the print edition of 50 US newspapers -...

The 118-year-old Wall Street Journal newspaper is the big prize in Rupert Murdoch’s attempted acquisition of the Dow Jones group. The world’s most prestigious financial publication has 2.6m print and online subscribers and the second highest circulation of any newspaper in the US. The Journal is considered the newspaper of record for the business world. Founded in 1889 by Charles Dow, Edward Jones...

Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of Abderrahim Ariri, the publisher of the weekly Al Watan Al An (The Nation Now), and one of his journalists, Mostapha Hurmatallah, yesterday in Casablanca after they published the text of an internal security memo circulated by the General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance (DGST), an intelligence agency. “It is wrong to arrest these two...

MOHALI: The photojournalist of a Hindi daily was beaten up by doctors in civil hospital; phase VI, when he was taking pictures of the hospital. A medical examination conducted at general hospital, Sector 16, Chandigarh reported broken teeth and neck injuries. However, doctors on duty refuted the allegation and wrote to health secretary and human rights commission against the journalist for...

Ethiopia’s High Court has handed down harsh criminal penalties, including life prison sentences, to six journalists and three publishers on anti-state charges in connection with critical coverage of the government during the deadly unrest in the aftermath of disputed parliamentary elections in 2005, according to local journalists. At least 200 people Monday packed the courtroom in the capital...