2005-2014

Two pominent reformist newspapers in Iran that had been banned resumed publishing this week. One of the papers, Hammihan (Compatriot), was banned in 2000 by the hardline judiciary after it called for improved ties with the United States, the Associated Press (AP) reported. On Sunday, the paper was back on the newsstands, and its top story — with the headline "Iran-US talks in Baghdad" — was on an...

Journalists in France have been urged by a press freedom organisaiton to stay on guard after the weekly Journal du Dimanche decided not to run a story reporting that Cécilia Sarkozy, the wife of new President Nicolas Sarkozy, did not vote in the second-round of the presidential election. Cecilia Sarkozy (third from left), wife of France's new President Nicolas Sarkozy, arrives with her son Louis...

(IAPA/IFEX) - The following is a 15 May 2007 IAPA press release: IAPA calls for investigation into disappearance of two Mexican journalists MIAMI, Florida (May 15, 2007) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today expressed concern at the disappearance of two journalists in Monterrey, Nuevo León, and called on authorities to take urgent action to put an end to the violence being unleashed...

Madurai, May 15 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu police Tuesday took into custody a strongman of the M.K. Azhagiri camp, known as Attack Pandi, the main accused in the attack on the office of the Dinakaran newspaper in Madurai in which three people were killed. Attack Pandi is the main accused named in the police complaint. He had surrendered before the Madurai rural police Tuesday and was produced before a...

Kate Webb, a brave, no-nonsense correspondent during the Vietnam War who was erroneously reported to have been captured, killed and cremated in Cambodia — only to emerge from the jungle alive —died on Sunday in Sydney, Australia. She was 64. The cause was bowel cancer, her brother, Jeremy Webb, told The Associated Press. Ms. Webb lived on the Hunter River, north of Sydney. On April 7, 1971, when...

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF says it fears the worst after the disappearance of TV Azteca Noroeste reporter Gamaliel López Candanosa and cameraman Gerardo Paredes Pérez on 10 May in Monterrey, in the northeastern state of Nuevo León, and called on the authorities to step up the search for the two journalists. "This brings the number of journalists who have gone missing since 2003 without being found to seven...

The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the recent arrests of four Iranian student editors of Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran following the publication of newsletters carrying articles deemed insulting to Islam. The students say they had no involvement in the publications, calling them a fraud designed to disrupt student elections. All of the university's student publications...

Canadian publisher Thomson Corp has agreed to buy Reuters for about £8.7 billion ($17.2 billion), creating the world’s leading provider of news and data for professional markets. Reuters Founders Share Company, which has the power to block a change of ownership at the 156-year-old company, backed the deal but it still needs regulatory clearance and shareholder approval, Thomson and Reuters said in...

The chorus of disapproval for newspapers has become a global trend. These days it is nearly impossible to find a media analyst who actually reads a newspaper or who can see anything other than doom and gloom for the industry. I can present a different perspective. Let's start with circulations, which continue to grow - and not just in India and China. Paid circulation grew globally by 1.9 per cent...

The numbers are stark. Eight months into Katie Couric’s job as the first woman to anchor a network newscast on her own, her “CBS Evening News” has not only settled back into its long-held position of last among the evening news broadcasts, but also regularly falls short of the newscast that Ms. Couric replaced. In the latest week’s ratings, “CBS Evening News” had its worst performance since the...