2005-2014

An İstanbul prosecutor has pressed charges against Nokta newsweekly’s editor-in-chief Alper Görmüş for running a story that featured excerpts from a diary that was allegedly authored by former Navy Force Commander retired Admiral Özden Örnek. Görmüş is being indicted at the end of an investigation launched by the prosecutor’s office in İstanbul’s Bakırköy district on an appeal by Özden Örnek...

(RSF/IFEX) - The body of Pov Sam Ath, editor of the newspaper "Samleng Khmer Krom" ("Voice of the Khmers Kroms"), was found in a suitcase on 26 April 2007 in the Pich Nil valley in Kampong Speu province in the south of the country. The autopsy showed that his killer used the 29-year-old journalist's bicycle brake cables to strangle him. Reporters Without Borders called on the government, and...

Blogging, or weblogging, where people post content they generate online, is becoming big business. More than 120 000 new blogs are created each day, according to blog search engine Technorati. There are about 70m blogs worldwide, Technorati estimates, though only a fraction are updated regularly. Most blogs have only a handful of readers. But some, such as Daily Kos and Instapundit, both US...

GamePolitics.com is reporting that U.S. District Judge Paul Huck has dismissed anti-video game crusader Jack Thompson's lawsuit against Gawker Media, the publisher of game blog Kotaku. Thompson had claimed that Kotaku and Gawker Media had failed to honor his requests to remove "threatening" comments from several of their blog posts that were critical of his eagerness to blame video games for the...

New York, April 26, 2007—Authorities in Burkina Faso must fully investigate a death threat against outspoken journalist and free speech activist Karim Sama, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Sama received an anonymous e-mail last week warning that he “will be gunned down” over commentary that is critical of the government. Sama, host of two popular reggae programs on Radio Ouaga FM...

New York, April 26, 2007—Guatemalan television journalist Rudy Toledo was shot and wounded, and three other local reporters were attacked Wednesday while covering a mob’s fatal attack on a purported gang member in the northeastern province of Quiché. A group of about 100 people shot and burned an individual believed to be a member of the local gang Mara 18 in the town of San Andrés Sajcabajá, 62...

BANGALORE, India (AFP) - America Online, the Internet arm of media giant Time Warner, said it will expand "aggressively" worldwide after stepping into Asia for the first time with the launch of an India portal. AOL, which has 238 million users in the United States, neighbouring nations and parts of Europe, is seeking to compete with rivals Google and Yahoo! in tapping the billion-strong and...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Faced with declining circulation, many U.S. newspapers are trying to engage readers by allowing them to respond to news stories online. But the anonymity of the Internet lets readers post obscenities and racist hate speech that would never be allowed in the printed paper. Consider one reader comment this month on the Web site of Nashville's daily newspaper, The Tennessean...

New York, April 25, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists journalist is gravely concerned about the recent arrest of Tran Khai Thanh Thuy, an award-winning journalist and writer. Thuy was taken into custody Saturday at her residence, where she was already being held under house arrest, according to news reports. She was charged with violating Article 88 of Vietnam’s criminal code, which...

Kolkata-based media house ABP, which publishes Ananda Bazaar Patrika and The Telegraph, is in talks with Swedish media firm Metro International to launch its free urban newspaper, Metro, in the country. ABP is reported to be in the advanced stage of talks with the group, which is expected to take 26 per cent equity stake in the venture. ABP Managing Director Pramath Raj Sinha refused to comment on...