2005-2014

An Iraqi photographer and driver working for Reuters in Iraq have been killed in Baghdad, the agency has said. Photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, were killed in eastern Baghdad Thursday at a time when clashes had been taking place between US forces and militants in the area. Noor-Eldeen was single. Chmagh was married and had four children. Four other Reuters staff —...

NEW YORK: Just a day after United Press International revealed it would lay off its lone White House correspondent with no plans to replace him, comes word that UPI's long-running United Nations bureau will close after 62 years of covering the worldwide organization. In that move, the news organization is losing its most senior reporter, William M. Reilly, who joined UPI in 1961 and covered beats...

(MFWA/IFEX) - "Air Info", a bi-weekly privately-owned newspaper in Agadez, about 1,000 km from the capital Niamey, was suspended on 29 June 2007 by the media regulatory body (Conseil Supérieur de la Communication, CSC) for covering the activities of a rebel group in the northern part of Niger. The CSC has also frozen the newspaper's annual subsidy provided by the government to the media under...

(CENCOS/IFEX) - On 29 June 2007, after 33 years on air, Radio Monitor radio station broadcast its last programme, becoming the first national media outlet to disappear during the mandate of President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa. With this closure, both an avenue for freedom of expression and a source of work for journalists are being lost. The station broadcast from Mexico City, and its news...

BUKAVU, DRCongo, July 11, 2007 (AFP) - The trial of the alleged killers of a prominent radio journalist resumed in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday with the presentation of eight new suspects. The six men and two women joined two existing suspects in the defendants' box at a military court in Bukavu in eastern DRCongo, as proceedings into the murder of Serge Maheshe restarted after a...

A Sikh organisation has filed a $110 million lawsuit against the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) for allegedly linking it to terrorism and damaging the reputation of the Sikh community. The lawsuit filed by the World Sikh Organisation (WSO) on Tuesday also named CBC reporter Terry Milewski and Legislator Ujjal Dosanjh for comments they made in the June 28, 2007 documentary titled Samosa...

July 12, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The government of Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is increasingly impatient with what it sees as a front of unjustified criticism in the media. It has impugned critics as motivated by either domestic political grudges or the discreet machinations of foreign powers. The sum of reports in recent days gives the impression of a government exasperated by -- but intent on...

The upper house of the Russian parliament Wednesday approved a package of amendments that would expand the definition of extremism to include public discussion of such activity, and give law enforcement officials broad authority to suspend media outlets that do not comply with the new restrictions, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. The package, proposed by deputies from the

Reporters Without Borders has condemned a ban on the online publication China Development Brief and warned diplomats and investors in China of a growing censorship of socio-economic news, preventing any reliable assessment of the real state of the country. The Beijing Statistics Bureau and the Public Security Bureau on 4 July ordered the site’s founder Nick Young to halt publication. The...

Reporters Without Borders today deplored the arbitrary and repressive methods of a regime whose culture minister recently accused the media of promoting a “creeping coup” against the government. Judicial officials have in the past 10 days ordered the suspension of the daily Ham Mihan and the permanent closure of the daily Moshareket, while the new agency ILNA’s future seems uncertain after...