2005-2014

Reporters Without Borders today hailed the resumption this week of an inquest into the murders of cameraman Brian Peters and four other journalists 32 years ago in East Timor, saying it hoped every aspect of their deaths would be clarified and insisting that it was not too late for those responsible to be punished. After suspending hearings for two months, a Sydney coroner resumed the inquest...

My name is Anne and I’m a blogger. Bloggers come in many shapes and sizes. Some are professional journalists. Others are amateur fanboys. A few create original content, but most riff on other people’s blogs. (At thompsononhollywood.com, I do both.) Some are erudite and write with charm and brio. Others suck. But for better or worse, blogs are here to stay. And they’re reshaping the coverage of...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Reuters, the financial news agency whose founder started off selling stock quotes via carrier pigeon in Europe, appears set to recommend a takeover bid from Thomson Corp., a rival in the financial news business, according to a news report Friday. Without quoting any sources, the Financial Times reported on its Web site late Friday that Reuters "appeared willing to...

News Corp., launching a two-pronged offensive, is planning to take its case for buying Dow Jones & Co. to the media company's controlling shareholders, the Bancroft family, and directly to the newsroom of the company's flagship, The Wall Street Journal. The media conglomerate run by Rupert Murdoch is considering making its case to journalists detailing the company's plans for capital investment...

An Egyptian producer employed by the Qatar-based satellite TV station Al-Jazeera, Howayda Taha, was sentenced in absentia yesterday, the eve of World Press Freedom Day, to six months in prison for preparing a report on torture in Egyptian prisons. She was found guilty of “harming national interest.” “We are outraged by this conviction, which confirms the fears we have repeatedly voiced since the...

DHAKA (Reuters) - Four journalists were killed and 158 wounded in Bangladesh over the past year while discharging professional duties, a local media monitoring group said on Thursday at a seminar to observe World Press Freedom Day. "During the last 12 months, from May 2006 to April 2007, a total of 498 journalists were harassed during their professional duties," said Kamrul Hassan Monju, executive...

New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) On World Press Freedom Day, Thursday, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi announced that All India Radio and Doordarshan would have a 50:50 ratio of men and women for anchoring, reporting and all other news-related work from August 15, India's Independence Day. While addressing a seminar here jointly organised by the ministry of women and child...

While Ivory Coast is not on the list of worst performers in press freedom anymore, journalists and press regulators agree the sector is still struggling in the divided country. They say improving the state of journalists can mirror the peace process to reunite what was once West Africa's most prosperous country. VOA's Nico Colombant reports from our regional bureau in Dakar. The head of the...

Reporters Without Borders voiced shock today at the severity of an attack on journalist Dare Folorunso of state-owned Ondo State Radiovision Corporation (OSRC), who was beaten unconscious by several policemen, including a deputy commissioner, at a May Day rally on 1 May in Akure, in the southwestern state of Ondo. He is now in a coma. “The election campaign has created a very difficult climate for...

New York, May 3, 2007—Jose Miguel Arroyo, husband of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, has withdrawn 46 criminal libel suits he had filed against 11 journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomed today’s news but said the suits should never have been brought. Withdrawal of the cases—which came because Arroyo was “grateful for surviving a delicate open-heart surgery with a...