2005-2014

It seemed like a good idea at the time. With blogging flourishing and citizen journalism just budding, Mark Potts and Susan DeFife thought they had a winning formula for a new kind of journalistic enterprise. One evening in the summer of 2004, they sketched out their common vision: A series of hyperlocal, news-oriented Web sites whose tone and content--news, commentary, blogs, photos, calendar...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced deep shock at the murders of four Iraqi journalists by armed groups within a space of five days. The body of a local TV station employee was found in the boot of his car in the northern city of Kirkuk on 26 May 2007. A Turkmen journalist was killed in Kirkuk on 28 May. Gunmen burst into the home of a journalism teacher and contributor to several...

The Liberian government has lifted with immediate effect the ban it imposed on the Independent Newspaper. On February 27th, this year, the Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Information revoked the operational permit of the paper when it published what the Ministry described as obscene materials depicting former Presidential Affairs Minister Willis Knuckles having sex with two ladies...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Associated Press will intensify its efforts to protect its copyrights on the Web and possibly uncover new sources of revenue by working with a Silicon Valley startup that's trying to help the media gain more control over digital content. Under an agreement to be announced Thursday, the AP will subscribe to a service developed by Attributor Corp. to track how its stories are...

At its World Congress on Thursday, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) announced the election of Jim Boumelha of the National Union of Great Britain and Ireland as its president. Boumelha and other elected IFJ officials will serve their terms for the next three years. Osvaldo Urriolabeitia of the Federacion Argentina de Trabajadores de Prensa was elected to the post of senior vice...

Television viewers have given the thumbs up to tabloid-like content on news channels by making Rajat Sharma’s India TV the second most popular after Aaj Tak. According to viewership measuring agency TAM’s latest Peoplemeter data, India TV has bagged 17.4 per cent share (up from 8.8 per cent at this time last year) among viewers aged 15 or more in cable and satellite homes in Hindi speaking markets...

The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Iranian authorities to drop criminal charges against an Iranian-American journalist working for U.S.-backed Radio Farda, to return the journalist’s seized passport, and to allow her to travel freely. On May 15, the Special Security Bureau of the Revolutionary Court Public Prosecutor’s office charged Parnaz Azima with disseminating propaganda...

MOSCOW: Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper, officially began sales on Wednesday of a bound collection of articles and commentary by Anna Politkovskaya, the paper's special correspondent who was murdered last year. The book was released as the paper's editors and staff once again demanded an honest investigation into the crime. Politkovskaya, 48, was one of fiercest domestic critics to...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders is outraged at the two-month prison sentences imposed on two "El Watan" journalists in a libel case on 27 May 2007 and said it was concerned about the verdict that is due to be issued by an Algiers criminal court on 30 May in the case of Arezki Aït-Larbi, the correspondent of several international news media. "Algeria's journalists will always work under the...

New York, May 30, 2007—Blanket censorship imposed last November on private newspapers and radio stations was lifted this week after a six-month state of emergency, imposed in response to deadly unrest in eastern Chad, expired on Saturday, according to officials and local journalists. Three of the leading private newspapers in the capital N’Djamena, including weeklies Notre Temps, Le Temps and L...