2005-2014

ASHGABAT, May 25, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The following was written by Halmyrat Gylychdurdy, an RFE/RL Turkmen Service correspondent in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat. RFE/RL correspondents have experienced widespread harassment, threats, detentions, and jail terms since Turkmenistan gained independence in 1991. One correspondent, Ogulsapar Muradov, died in unexplained circumstances last year while jailed...

May 25, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Independent Kazakh journalist Sergey Duvanov has been convicted by an Almaty court of organizing unsanctioned gathering and ordered to pay a fine, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. Duvanov was among a small group of protesters who turned out in Almaty on May 24 to express objections to constitutional amendments, approved by the legislature, allowing President Nursultan...

New York, May 25, 2007—Colombian radio journalist Rodrigo Callejas has been forced to flee his home in the western Tolima province after receiving death threats from an alleged guerrilla commander. The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Colombian authorities today to provide Callejas with the necessary protection to allow him to work without fear of reprisal. Callejas, host of the daily...

Not Iraq, where, according to a new report from the Arab Archives Institute, 52 Arab journalists have lost their lives since 2001; not Palestine, where journalists are caught between Israel and the Palestinians and between Fatah and Hamas; nor Lebanon, where reporters have been in the cross-hairs of rival factions and governments. Darfur is a hot-button issue in the newsroom not because of the...

One salvation for newspapers wrestling to make their multiplatform approach to news as profitable as print used to be alone is that their web sites are so popular – 37.6% of US active internet users visited a newspaper site in Q1 -- but new studies show that local TV web sites are increasingly snapping at their heels, and at the end of the day the most important buzz word for advertisers will be...

Tribune Co. disclosed Friday afternoon that its earlier agreement to sell two Connecticut newspapers to Gannett Co. for $73 million has been called off in the wake of an unfavorable arbritrator's ruling regarding Gannett's plan not to honor an existing union contract at one of the papers. Tribune announced in March that it had agreed to sell the Advocate in Stamford and the Greenwich Time to...

Rupert Murdoch faces the most serious challenge yet to his dominance of the British media after Alistair Darling, the trade secretary, called yesterday for a full investigation into News Corp's influence over the way the British public gets its news. In referring BSkyB's share swoop last year on the rival broadcaster ITV to the Competition Commission, Mr Darling opened the way for a full...

(IAPA/IFEX) - MIAMI, Florida (May 25, 2007) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today gave its support to an open call by the news media in Guyana for the government of President Bharrat Jagdeo to reconsider its position and end its discrimination in the placement of official advertising. Electronic and print media in Guyana and the English-speaking Caribbean on May 24 issued a joint...

The Evening Standard, Daily Mail and General Trust’s London evening newspaper, has suffered an 18 per cent drop in circulation amid intensifying competition from London freesheets, thelondonpaper and London Lite. Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), publisher of the Daily Mail and Evening Standard, gave warning yesterday that it could not see “an imminent reduction” in competition in London...

(IPI/IFEX) - According to information provided to the International Press Institute (IPI), a number of media organisations and other businesses in Kazakhstan have been closed and their staff ordered by the authorities to remain inside the buildings. At 5 p.m. (local time) in Almaty, Kazakhstan, four individuals from the General Prosecutors Office (GPO), accompanied by six police officers, visited...