2005-2014

Hundreds of journalists from around the world gathered Monday for a congress held in Moscow as part of an effort to promote Russian press freedom and fight impunity enjoyed by the killers of Russian journalists. But with few government officials in attendance, the effort is off to a bad start. By choosing Moscow for its meeting, the Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists wants to...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned constant government harassment of the opposition media, which has led 14 journalists working for two dailies, the Azerbaijani-language Gundelik Azerbaijan and the Russian-language Realny Azerbaijan, to seek political asylum in the past four days after their newspapers were closed last week. The editor of the newspaper Nota Bene has also requested asylum...

NEW YORK: Newspaper online advertising revenue growth is starting to slow, according to the most recent data from the Newspaper Association of America. In Q1, advertising spending for newspaper Web sites increased 22.3% to $750 million compared to the same period last year. In the first quarter of 2006, newspaper online ad revenue advanced 34.9% to $613 million. However, online advertising revenue...

When Maggie leaves her township home to catch a bus to work in the mornings, she stops to buy a newspaper. It's a new experience for her. Ten or 15 years ago, she did not bother. Then she occasionally listened to news reports broadcast by radio but, she admits, she wasn't particularly interested. The news did not affect her. "We lived in a different world then," she says. "Now I have a different...

NEW DELHI: The Government on Monday issued the formal notification for constitution of wage boards for journalists and non-journalists of newspapers and news agencies. The two wage boards would be chaired by the former judge of the Kerala High Court, Justice K. Narayana Kurup, and would have 10 members each representing the employers, the working journalists and the non-journalists. As per the...

A US military report that exonerated US troops in the killings of two Al-Arabiya journalists at a Baghdad checkpoint in 2004 has failed to address contradictory witness reports, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. This includes statements from Al-Arabiya employees that at least two US soldiers fired directly at the journalists’ vehicle, newly declassified records show. The report...

Often the writing and photography that win Pulitzer Prizes require heroic efforts on the part of journalists. For one recipient this year, the process of receiving the award also took an enormous effort. In 1979, a photographer stood nearby as executioners shot Kurdish prisoners in Sanandaj, Iran. A picture he took for an Iranian newspaper was picked up by United Press International and published...

(FNJ/IFEX) - The distributors of the daily "Nepal Samacharpatra", who are associated with the pro-Maoist Nepal Publication and Communication Labour Association, padlocked the publication and distribution office of "Nepal Samacharpatra" on 26 May 2007 in the central district of Katmandu. According to "Nepal Samcharpatra", the distributors started the strike after making several demands on the...

(BIANET/IFEX) - The weekly magazine "Nokta" was forced to close in April 2007. It now faces a court case under Article 301 for an interview with security expert Lale Sariibrahimoglu and a follow-up article, both of which criticised the involvement of the army in domestic affairs. Ahmet Sik, the reporter who conducted the interview, and Lale Sariibrahimoglu are being tried at a penal court in...

KHULNA, Bangladesh (Reuters) - A Bangladesh court sentenced a journalist to four years in prison on Monday for taking bribe from forest officials, lawyers said. They said security forces had arrested A.T.M. Rafique, who worked in southwestern Khulna district for a Dhaka-based daily newspaper, in early April while accepting 20,000 taka ($290) from two officials of Bangladesh Forest Department. "The...