2005-2014

PATIALA: Jagjit Singh Dardi, Editor-in-Chief of Chardikala Group of Newspapers on Monday alleged that a Congress leader and his partner in TV Channel Newstime had attacked his office and threatened to eliminate Dardi, Jatinderpal Singh Managing Editor and Raminder Singh Babbal Manager of Chardhikala Newspaper. In a statement issue dhere Monday Dardi said that Labh Singh accompanied by miscreants...

NEW YORK: The Newspaper Association of America released Internet usage data in conjunction with its industry conference held here starting on Sunday. Figures show that an average of 59 million people, or 37% of all active Internet users, visited newspaper Web sites each month during the Q1. During the same period, the overall Internet audience grew 2.7%. “The fact that newspaper Web site audience...

Having read last week's rant by Stefano Hatfield, editor of thelondonpaper, on the afternoon free newspaper market in London, I couldn't help thinking that instead of reminiscing about the Maxwell era, his company might be better served if it spent more time concentrating on the here and now, particularly the failures of its own paper. We at Associated can have no objection to other titles...

Photojournalist Dmitry Chebotayev was killed in a bombing Sunday while on assignment in Iraq, according to news reports and his agency, World Picture News. Chebotayev was traveling with U.S. forces in Diyala province when their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device. Six American soldiers were killed and two were wounded, according to the U.S. military. Russian news organizations...

(FNJ/IFEX) - Lokshari Kuwar, editor and publisher of "Morning Bell" daily, was captured and attacked by a group of people on 2 May 2007 in Dhangadi, Kailali, a western district of Nepal. According to Birendra Rawal, president of Press Chautrai Nepal, three "hooligans" - Ganesh Chand, Lalit Kuwar and Prem Kalel - brutally beat Kuwar. He sustained serious wounds to his head and neck; two teeth were...

(FNJ/IFEX) - Yuvraj Adhikary, a local correspondent of Radio Nepal, was attacked by cadres of the Maoist-aligned Young Communist League (YCL) on 2 May 2007 in the Kusumba market of Bardiya, a mid-western district of Nepal. Adhikary had gone to the Kusumba market to collect news about a clash between armed police forces, deployed at the market for border security purposes, and a group of refugees...

(PPF/IFEX) - Cable networks in major cities of Pakistan's southern Sindh province suspended the transmissions of three leading television news channels for six hours on 5 May 2007. The transmissions of Geo, ARY and Aaj television networks were suspended in Karachi, Hyderabad, Nawabshah, Sukkur and Mirpurkhas. Despite its denials, it is widely believed that transmissions were suspended at the...

While most newspapers are trying to stake bigger claims online, one new publication is pulling material off the Internet to be printed in ink. John Wilpers, editor in chief of BostonNow, a free weekday daily introduced last month, said he wanted to fill the paper with items that local bloggers submitted to the BostonNow Web site. Last week, editors began culling posts and running excerpts next to...

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is today protesting over the arrest of Radio Reporter in Afgoye district of Lower Shabelle region by local authorities. Journalist Hassan Mayow Hassan of Radio Shabelle was arrested Monday morning, 7 May 2007, by the police in Afgoye after the district commissioner ordered the police's action. The motivation behind the arrest was not officially...

New York, May 7, 2007—Brazilian journalist Luiz Carlos Barbon Filho, known for investigative reporting that exposed political corruption, was gunned down on Saturday evening in the southern state of São Paulo. The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Brazilian authorities today to thoroughly investigate the murder and bring those responsible to justice. “We offer our deepest condolences to...