2005-2014

New York, May 3, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists mourns the death of freelance photographer Mehboob Khan, who was killed in an April 28 suicide bomb attack aimed at Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao. The minister escaped with minor injuries, but 28 people died in the attack at a political rally in the small town of Charsadda in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP). Three other...

KUWAIT: Today the world celebrates the greatest freedoms of all -- the freedom of expression and the freedom of the press. This year, World Press Freedom Day is dedicated to the theme "Media and Good Governance." In a survey conducted on the occasion of the day, this reporter talked to citizens and expats on their assessment of Kuwait's press freedoms. For Michelle, 36, from the Philippines...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, May 3, 2007 - The Committee to Protect Journalists joined with colleagues at a rally at U.N. headquarters today to call for the release of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, abducted in Gaza more than seven weeks ago. Journalists in London, China, and Indonesia also rallied today, World Press Freedom Day, in support of Johnston's release. "No purpose is served by keeping Alan...

GAZA, May 3 (Reuters) - Palestinian supporters of the ruling Hamas movement launched their first newspaper on Thursday, opening a new front in the battle for political dominance with the rival Fatah faction. "Palestine" is the pro-Islamist answer to the three largest Palestinian newspapers which have longstanding ties to Fatah, the secular faction of President Mahmoud Abbas. It is also the first...

The world comemmorates World Press Freedom Day Thursday and various media watchdogs say Zimbabwe remains one of the world's most difficult places to work for independent journalists. As Tendai Maphosa reports for VOA from London attacks on journalists continued with a new low reached earlier this year. Zimbabwe has maintained its place on international media watchdogs' lists of the worst places to...

Yesterday, the eve of World Press Freedom Day, Russia appeared in a bad light in three Western ratings of press freedom. The American human rights organization Freedom House gave Russia its lowest ever press freedom rating of 164 out of 195. The U.S. State Department placed Russia on its list of countries where freedom of the press is deteriorating, and the New York-based Committee to Protect...

NEW YORK - One-third of Americans say they have a negative view of Katie Couric, her personal popularity lagging behind rivals Charles Gibson and Brian Williams just as her evening news program trails in the ratings. The Gallup Poll survey released Thursday found that 51 percent of Americans said they had a positive view of Couric, who jumped from NBC's "Today" show to CBS last fall. The poll...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Times said Thursday that it has appointed Pulitzer Prize-winning newsman Clark Hoyt as its new public editor. Hoyt, 64, is a veteran journalist who spent much of his career at Knight Ridder newspapers, where his coverage of Democratic vice presidential candidate Thomas F. Eagleton during the 1972 election won a Pulitzer. He was Washington editor for the chain until...

The board of Dow Jones & Co. announced late Wednesday that it would not move on Rupert Murdoch's audacious $5-billion buyout offer after the company's controlling Bancroft family rejected the media baron's proposal for the second time in two days. But analysts viewed the company's newly robust stock price and the somewhat muted rejection as signs that Murdoch, or a competitor, would eventually buy...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- Belgian French-language newspapers were back on Google on Thursday after agreeing that the search engine can link to their Web sites, the first signs of a thaw in a bitter copyright dispute. But neither has so far settled on a key part of the dispute: the use of newspaper story links used on Google News. In February, Google Inc. lost a lawsuit filed by the newspapers that...