2005-2014

MEXICO CITY - Mexican journalists have grown impatient as more of their colleagues are murdered, kidnapped or threatened because of their work. Increasingly, the media have directed their frustration toward the office designed to provide them justice: the Special Prosecutor for Crimes Against Journalists. Created amid fanfare in 2006 by then-President Vicente Fox, the office is now seen by many...

A Sunday newspaper's decision not to print a lengthy piece of religious writing as an advertisement has been backed by the Court of Appeal. The court threw out an attempt to sue the Sunday Star-Times for $5m. David Edward Coxhead and his House of David Healing Centre Trust had tried to sue the paper's publisher Fairfax New Zealand after it declined to print the full-page advertisement. The Court...

Online publishers are strapping on their Birkenstocks. Buoyed by the breakaway success of An Inconvenient Truth, the film documentary of Al Gore’s environmental lecture, publishers like The Washington Post, National Geographic and others are increasing their offerings of ‘green’ content, hoping to attract readers and advertising revenues from manufacturers and retailers who are suddenly walking...

Reporters Without Borders condemned yesterday’s murder of young reporter employed by the daily Uthayan, one of the Tamil newspapers that has been most targeted by violence. Gunned down on his bicycle near the newspaper’s office in the northern city of Jaffna, Selvarajah Rajivarnam was the second journalist to be killed in a government-controlled area in the past 10 days. "The people who murder...

CHENNAI: A Fast Track Court (FTC) at Gobichettipalayam on Thursday acquitted R.R. Gopal, Editor of Tamil biweekly Nakheeran, and 10 others in a murder case. FTC-II Judge Prem Kumar in his order said there was no evidence to find any of the 11 accused guilty of any offence alleged by the prosecution. The matter relates to the suspected murder of a police informant, Kandavelu. Initially, the police...

The orthopaedic surgeon Wynne Lieberthal accused The Star of destroying his and his family's life after its journalists doggedly pursued complaints of malpractice against him. He was eventually struck off the medical practitioner's register and, according to the Health Professions Council of South Africa, lost all his assets as a direct result of the negative (but probably fair) publicity. "When...

Andrew Keen finds himself in the eye of a storm. The Briton, who made his living from the hi-tech boom in California's Silicon Valley, has dared to challenge the assumptions behind the internet revolution which began there and swept the world. America's massed army of bloggers do not like it one bit. Far from his birthplace in Golders Green, north London, Keen is now being labelled the nemesis of...

Mumbai: Picture this: Star filmmaker Karan Johar interviews each and every celebrity in Bollywood. Actors Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukherji speak to camera on their roles in Tara Rum Pum. Eklavya’s A-list star cast talks about Making Eklavya to each other. And Aamir Khan answers questions at a press conference asked to him not by a journalist but by the host of the evening. So, promotions are on in...

Hoffman Media LLC and Hearst Magazines have partnered to re-publish Victoria magazine, which ceased publication in 2003. The Birmingham-based Hoffman will operate the magazine, as well as additional media products and events under the Victoria brand, and will provide all editorial, production, distribution and advertising services. Hearst, a division of Hearst Corp., will provide trademark...

Yelena Tregubova, a former Kremlin pool reporter and author of several books about Russian political elite, has applied for political asylum in Great Britain, the Ekho Moskvy radio reported on Tuesday quoting Tregubova’s own statement. After the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya last year, Tregubova wrote an open letter to Western leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in which...