2005-2014

Chennai, May 13: The Maran ~ Karunanidhi family divide is not the only thing that is out in the open in Tamil Nadu following the Madurai incident. The media too is a much divided house over whether the Wednesday attack on Dinakaran is to be seen as an attack on Press freedom. Refusing to be quoted openly most working journalists, including office-bearers and members of various media associations...

Here's a silver lining in last month's avalanche of news coverage of Don Imus: The disc jockey's racist and sexist remarks inspired at least one Sunday morning talk show to invite women and people of color to discuss Imus' comments. Seeing nonwhite men on the Sunday shows is as rare as seeing them on the floor of the U.S. Senate. According to a study to be released Monday by the liberal media...

Chennai, May. 12 (PTI): Over 100 journalists and newspaper employees courted arrest here today while attempting to defy the prohibitory orders to take out a rally from Dinakaran office here, seeking the arrest of the "real culprits" behind the violence at the Tamil daily's office in Madurai on May 9. The arrested included R Rangaraj, President, Madras Reporters Guild, Babu Jayakumar, President...

DHAKA, Bangladesh: Bangladeshi authorities have released a journalist, detained hours earlier, who had written about alleged human rights abuses by the country's security forces, his wife said Saturday. Tasneem Khalil, a journalist at Dhaka's Daily Star newspaper, was picked up early Friday from his residence in the capital by four men in plain clothes. Khalil was released later Friday after being...

BAGHDAD – In a polarized Iraq, radio host Suhad Rabia did everything she could to stop her listeners from figuring out whether she was Shiite or Sunni. When callers used abusive language to speak of ethnic or religious groups other than their own, she promptly took them off the air. When they expressed extremist sectarian sentiments, she reminded listeners that the station did not share their...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - Google Inc. has become more comfortable doing big acquisitions but still sees small technology deals as its primary thrust for buying businesses, its chief executive said on Thursday. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt told reporters at a briefing at Google headquarters that the Web search leader remained open to buying larger companies, as it has done twice in...

BANGKOK, Thailand - The Thai government abruptly scrapped plans to sue Google after the U.S. company agreed to remove from a Web site video clips deemed insulting to the country's revered king, an official said Friday. The government blocked access to YouTube — a popular video-sharing site owned by Google — on April 4, after Google Inc. turned down Thailand's request to remove the clips seen as...

The Pakistani Supreme Court should immediately withdraw the alarming press directive issued on Wednesday that is designed to stifle coverage of a controversial issue involving the court, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. The court warned print and electronic media to avoid “any interference” in the high-profile dispute over the ouster of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad

LONDON (Reuters) - Police have bailed five people, including a journalist, arrested on Tuesday as part of an investigation into the alleged leaking to the media of sensitive police information. The five also include two police officers and a soldier. No details of the nature of the leaked material were immediately available but Thames Valley Police said their joint investigation with Hertfordshire...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, May 11, 2007 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by reports that police in the southern Russian city of Samara have raided the local bureaus of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta and the independent news agency Regnum. Three journalists with other news organizations were also detained and interrogated, according to news reports. The police actions come one...