2005-2014

The Chicago Sun Times will roll out up to 30 hyper-local citizen journalism websites by the end of the year. The sites will be grouped at neighborhoodcircle.com, which launched three test sites in suburbs of Chicago in April this year, and cover small areas of the city that could be home to as few as 10,000 people. The sites, which will be managed by a team of community reporters, will encourage...

ISLAMABAD: Journalists have announced to stage a protest demonstration today (Tuesday) as Senate Secretariat denied to issue cards to journalists for coverage of the Upper House session following a successful negotiations between member of National Assembly and the journalists after pandemonium of last week. Imposing ban on permanent cards of journalists, Senate Chairman Mohammedmian Soomro...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the counsel for the Press Association of the Supreme Court (PAS) to file single petition for each case of alleged harassment of journalists and specify special redress of grievance, which would make easy for the court while giving relief, reported the Online. Staff Report adds: The SC also sought details of the incidents of alleged harassment and...

Manama: Saeed Al Hamad, a journalist at the centre of a growing controversy over his writings against Muslim Brotherhood leader Wajdi Ghunaim, yesterday dismissed a petition to sue him as "an attempt by a political society to exact revenge on his newspaper and to curtail freedom of expression." "The petition seeks to put pressure on Al Ayam newspaper in order to influence its liberal editorial...

Reporters Without Borders spoke of Tunisia's government methods of gagging all those who once dared to oppose it, as journalist Abdallah Zouari continued to pay a high price for his former work with "Al Fajr," the official organ of the Islamist movement Ennahda. As Zouari reached the 5 June 2007 date which should have ended his internal exile, he had an extra 26 months added to his banishment...

The detention of Al-Jazeera assistant cameraman Sami Al-Haj, who tomorrow begins his sixth year without charge or trial in the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is “unconstitutional and contrary to international law,” Reporters Without Borders said today, describing the detention centre as “one the biggest legal and humanitarian scandals of recent years” and reiterating its call for its...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned new media censorship in Yemen, where access to at least two websites has been blocked since the start of the year, in one case for three months, and the information ministry is now censoring the distribution of news to mobile phones by SMS message. “It is disturbing that the Yemeni government is attacking new technology in this way,” the press freedom...

The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has condemned the brutal murder of two prominent female journalists in Afghanistan. Koïchiro Matsuura decried the “cold-blooded killing Zakia Zaki, founder of one of the first community radio stations run entirely by women in Afghanistan, radio Sada — e — Sulh (Peace) in Jabul Seraj.” He noted that the murder...

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - ARTICLE 19 welcomes the Mexican Supreme Court's decision striking down amendments to the Law of Radio and Television The Mexican Supreme Court of Justice clearly ruled that amendments to the Law of Radio and Television, which had been enacted by the parliament violated the constitution and international human rights standards. This paves the way for the Federal Congress to...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- "I worry about CNN more than I do about CNN.com." Many news junkies already feel the same way, but when the person expressing concern about the state of the 24-hour TV news network is Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons, the guy who ultimately runs both properties, it's pretty telling. Mr. Parsons, who was discussing the company's entire portfolio at a London media conference...