2005-2014

The extended drama surrounding Rupert Murdoch's unsolicited $5 billion bid to take over family-owned Dow Jones media empire, along with the pending $8.2 billion sale of the Tribune Co. has brought renewed attention to the longstanding debate over media consolidation. While these two high-profile transactions have grabbed the spotlight, they are mere flashpoints in a much larger battle between free...

Despite 200 years of service to Spanish-speaking communities, Spanish-language newspapers' contributions to U.S. journalism have been overlooked. Juan Gonzales is founder/editor of El Tecolote newspaper in San Francisco and he is department chair of journalism at City College of San Francisco. This article is adapted from an earlier contribution to the Journalism History Journal. Historians in the...

Ability to report freely has become a casualty in the ongoing battle for control over Gaza between rival Hamas and Fatah groups. From raids on news establishments and rampant abductions of journalists, to use of Press markings on vehicles by combatants, all have made reporting riskier than before in a conflict that draws some of the world's most intense media coverage. Dozens of armed members of...

Yellow journalism in Brasil is a waste of time because reality is already yellow. The facts themselves provide scandalous newscasts, with no need to add anything. On the contrary, if the press were to dig deeper, an even uglier country would surface. Every day we have a new episode of somebody telling on somebody else. Who remembers Operation Hurricane, replaced on all first pages by Operation...

DUBAI (Reuters) - A Palestinian militant group holding BBC reporter Alan Johnston denied on Sunday any deal to free the man abducted in Gaza three months ago and said he would only be released if its demands were met. "Freeing this detainee has not been part of any deal with any faction or organisation. What appears on television screens and through the media here and there are untrue," a man...

ISLAMABAD • The chief cleric at a radical mosque in Pakistan's capital Islamabad has issued a death decree against staff at a magazine for publishing a fashion-shoot advertisement entitled "Adam and Eve". Pakistani authorities have been locked in a confrontation with clerics at Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, for months, and the radicals have threatened suicide bomb reprisals if force were used to...

Beirut - A reporter at the Lebanese National Broadcasting Network (NBN) has been sacked from her post over comments she made about the recent assassination of MP Walid Eido , in Lebanon without realizing that her comments were being broadcast live. berri%20%20nasrallah.jpgSawsan Safa Darwich failed to notice that her microphone was on as she gave what was described as “harsh opinions” during the...

Most major news outlets are unwilling to let the public see how their editorial process works, a new study has concluded. Fewer than half of the websites surveyed publicly corrected mistakes in their stories and only a handful shared with readers the journalistic and ethical standards that theoretically guide their newsrooms. 'Openness & Accountability: A Study of Transparency in Global Media...

(FLIP/IFEX) - On 14 June 2007, Garrid Muñoz Tello, owner of La Voz del Cinaruco radio station, based in Arauca, the capital of the department of the same name, was murdered in strange circumstances in the city of Villavicencio, capital of the department of Meta. The murder took place in a hotel located on the highway connecting Villavicencio with Bogotá, the national capital. According to a press...

(Media Institute/IFEX) - The Rwanda government on 6 June 2007 ordered the closure of the privately owned "Weekly Post" for unknown reasons. A letter explaining the deregistration on the week-old newspaper by Information Minister Laurent Nkusi said: "After circumspect investigations of the information you had provided when you applied for the registration of an English newspaper, 'The Weekly Post'...