2005-2014

New York, May 21, 2007—Local authorities evicted the independent Russian-language weekly Realny Azerbaijan and the Azeri-language daily Gündalik Azarbaycan from their Baku offices on Sunday night, saying that the publications’ building violates safety regulations. The action comes amid a series of threats, attacks, and cases of harassment targeting the muckraking newspapers—including, most...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Militants kidnapped and killed a journalist from one of Iraq's most popular national newspapers in southern Baghdad on Sunday, his employers said on Monday. Ali Khalil had become a father only a few days before he was killed, they said. He was the 105th journalist to be killed in Iraq since hostilities started four years ago. Khalil, 21, worked for the Azzaman newspaper and had...

INTERNET SEARCH engine Google is understood to have reached deals with several large UK news groups over carrying their content on Google News. The deals are reputedly being kept strictly secret for fear that Google will end up having to pay for similar licences with all of the 4500 news services it carries on its news aggregator. It now seems that Google has accepted it has lost the argument over...

FAIRFAX DIGITAL says it will run Google AdWords advertisements on its online news outlets as the media group seeks to integrate its content with the global search giant. The agreement allows revenue generated from Google's pay-per-click advertisements on websites belonging to flagship publications such as The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age to be shared between Fairfax and Google. Fairfax...

The Russian government has asked the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ), which represents more than 100,000 journalists, to vacate its offices in central Moscow. RUJ Secretary-General Igor Yakovenko said the union received a letter from the Federal Property Management Agency on May 16 saying it would have to hand over its premises to the state-owned Russia Today TV station within a month. RUJ is...

Srinagar, May 19: In a sheer act of revenge, an Army Major on Saturday evening barged into the house of GK Reporter for Varmul Altaf Baba and subjected his family to harassment. “Troops led by Major Khanna barged into my house after a soldier was shot dead near police station Varmul and harassed my family. The troops burnt identity card of my father Ghulam Jeelani Baba who is a journalist and...

(SomaliNet) A newspaper columnist was this sentenced to six months in prison by a Maputo court for defaming an opposition politician, published in 2005 in an independent newspaper. The columnist for the weekly independent Zambeze newspaper, Edwin Hounnou, whose real name is Inacio Baptista, was found guilty of defaming Francisco Machambisse, a Renamo Electoral Union Member of Parliament. according...

ISLAMABAD: South Asian News Agency (Sana news) Chief Editor Shakeel Ahmed Turabi has been seriously wounded in a murder attempt on his life by sleuths of unknown secret agencies. Shakeel Ahmed Turabi was passing by Peshawar Mor in his car on Friday at around 11:45 am when a navy blue car bearing Chakwal number plate 4931 came on the side of his car and signaled Ahmed Turabi to stop. However when...

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - The bureau chief of the United Arab Emirates' Abu Dhabi TV in Gaza, abducted briefly by Palestinian gunmen on Friday, refused to identify his captors after the television station blamed Islamist group Hamas. "Those who abducted me are known but I do not wish to say who they are on air," Abdel-Salam Abu Askar told the television channel in a telephone interview after his...

NEW DELHI — Extra! Extra! Researchers have discovered a place where the newspaper, a threatened species in some parts of the world, is still thriving. That would be India, home to 1.1 billion people. And not only is the press in robust health, it's breeding at an astonishing rate. From 2005 to 2006, nearly 2,100 newspapers made their debut in India, joining 60,000 already circulating. Here in the...