2005-2014

(IPA/IFEX) - Geneva, 16/05/2007 - Publisher Ncube of Zimbabwe receives 2007 IPA Freedom Prize for his exemplary courage in upholding freedom of expression. IPA also awards a special posthumous prize to Hrant Dink of Turkey and Anna Politkovskaya of Russia. During the opening ceremony of the 2nd Cape Town Book Fair on 15 June 2007, Zimbabwean publisher Trevor Ncube will be receiving the 2007 IPA...

The audience for US newspaper websites is growing at nearly twice the rate of the overall online audience. An average of more than 59 million people (37.6 per cent of all active Internet users) visited newspaper websites each month during the first quarter this year, a record number that represents a 5.3 per cent increase over the same period a year ago, according to Nielsen//NetRatings NetView...

Dubai, Asharq Al-Awsat- The Times and The Sunday Times, two of the most respected and influential newspapers in the world, will publish their international editions in the Middle East starting on May 21. The move marks the first time a leading international daily is printed and distributed widely in the region on the day of publication, and the arrival of the UK papers is expected to have a...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - AOL plans an aggressive global expansion this year and will introduce a new version of its popular e-mail service this summer to include its AIM instant messaging platform, the chief executive of Time Warner Inc.'s online division said on Wednesday. The company plans to refresh its Web portal and launch new ones in 14 countries over the next 18 months in a renewed focus on...

Four newspaper groups today agreed to pay substantial damages to a Birmingham man they falsely claimed was suspected of being involved in a plot to blow up transatlantic passenger aircraft using "liquid bombs". A series of articles in six different newspapers claimed that Abdul Rauf, the proprietor of a bakery and cake distribution business in Birmingham, was suspected of funding or of having some...

LONDON, May 15 — The trustees charged with overseeing the integrity and independence of the Reuters Group endorsed the sale of the company to the Thomson Corporation of Canada on Tuesday, but the speed with which they acquiesced has upset some employees, who fear that the merger could undermine the quality of Reuters’s journalism. Many financial analysts and investors have reacted favorably to...

(FMM/IFEX) - The FMM is perturbed to learn that the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Sri Lanka Police questioned the Editor of The Morning Leader, Sonali Samarasinghe, for over four hours today based on a complaint ostensibly under Sri Lankan Monetary Law made by the Central Bank in relation to a series of investigative articles published in the Sunday Leader and Irudina newspapers...

ISLAMABAD: Legal and political wrangling over the suspension of the chief justice of Pakistan by President Pervez Musharraf appears to be leading to new pressures on the media, news organizations and media watchdog groups say. Media organizations and rights groups say that the government is becoming increasingly intolerant of the independent media's coverage of the judicial crisis that began in...

The Supreme Court of Russia has upheld termination of Paul Klebnikov’s case due to the disappearance of suspect - Kazbek Dukuzov, who is on the wanted list now. Forbes Russia Editor-in-Chief Paul Klebnikov was shot to death in Moscow on July 9, 2004. The Supreme Court also sustained the absentee arrest of Dukuzov despite the appeal of his lawyer, RIA Novosti reported. Alexander Chernov, who stands...

The world may be flat, as New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has written, but I always liked to think I was standing on a hill. Now comes the news that pasadenanow.com, a local news site, is recruiting reporters in India. The website’s editor points out that he can get two Indian reporters for a mere $20,800 a year — and no, they won’t be commuting from New Delhi. Since Pasadena’s city...