2005-2014

Reporters Without Borders condemns the prosecution of the owner of the Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, Serkis Seropyan, his editor Arat Dink, and one his reporters, Aydin Engin, who are due to appear before a criminal court in Sisli, Istanbul, on 18 July. Seropyan and Dink are charged with “insulting Turkish identity” under article 301 of the criminal code. Engin is accused of insulting the court...

New Delhi: CNN-IBN has added yet another feather in its cap. The channel won four of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism awards on Monday. While Nilanjana Bose won the award in the ‘Uncovering India Invisible’ category, Bahar Dutt won the ‘Excellence in Environmental Reporting’ award. CNN-IBN’s Special Investigation Team won the excellence in political reporting award. The channel's editor...

(AMARC/IFEX) - AMARC condemns the closure of various radio stations belonging to the Paraguayan Association of Community Communication (Asociación Paraguaya de Comunicación Comunitaria, COMUNICA), due to the strong pressure brought to bear upon the courts by commercial radio companies. On 10 July 2007, the radio station Chokokue FM, located in the city of Minga Guazú and run by the Paraguayan...

The Washington Post Co. today is launching LoudounExtra.com, an aggressive online push into hyperlocal journalism, combining traditional reporters and photographers with bloggers, videographers and extensive databases on schools, businesses and churches. If the project is successful, The Post Co. plans to build similar sites for the rest of Northern Virginia, Maryland and the District. The project...

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF is concerned about the health and safety of Cuba's imprisoned journalists, especially Normando Hernández González, the editor of the Colegio de Periodistas Independientes de Camagüey, an independent news agency, who is still waiting for the special medical release his wife requested for him a year ago because of his poor health. This concern is heightened by the news of the death...

(FMM/IFEX) - The FMM has been informed by the Polonnaruwa Provincial Journalists Association that B. A. Wijerathna Podibanda, the Aralaganvila correspondent for the broadcasting station MTV/SIRASA, was threatened and assaulted by officials from the Mahaweli Authority. The incident occurred on Saturday, 14 July 2007. Wijerathna was assaulted when he went to the Araganvila Children's Park to capture...

Reporters Without Borders appealed for the release of Michel Kilo, Muhened Abdulrahman and Habib Saleh today, on the eve of President Bashar Al-Assad’s swearing-in tomorrow for a second seven-year term. “Assad’s first term as president was marked by many arrests of Syrian journalists and activists,” the press freedom organisation said. “The state of emergency that has been in effect since 1963 is...

July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc., owner of the world's most popular search engine, said it will address privacy concerns by reducing the lifetime of ``cookies'' installed on the computers of people who visit its Web site. The cookies, files planted on personal computers to track Internet use, will automatically expire two years after the last visit to Google's site, Peter Fleischer, the company...

NEW YORK Reuters on Monday asked the U.S. military to conduct a full and objective investigation into the killing last week of two of its staff in Iraq after evidence emerged casting doubt on explanations given for their deaths. Photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, were killed in Baghdad on Thursday in what witnesses said was a U.S. helicopter attack and which police in...

(July 13, 2007) Meeting at an Internews Europe workshop for editors last month, over 40 media leaders from across Vietnam agreed to work together to reduce stigma and discrimination in HIV reporting. They also agreed to promote more frequent and responsible coverage of HIV/AIDS by their journalists. “Media play a pivotal role in HIV/AIDS prevention in our country,” said Vietnamese Deputy Minister...