2005-2014

The premises of Mizzima News Agency were reopened Wednesday on orders of the Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee looking into the sealing issue in Delhi. The office was sealed by Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on April 16, 2007. The decision to reopen Mizzima's office was made by the MCD Deputy Commissioner and member of the Sealing Monitoring Committee, Deepak Hastir, following a...

Mexico has become only the second country in Latin America to repeal defamation as a criminal offence. Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa signed the legislation that effectively eliminates criminal defamation, libel, and slander at the federal level last week. Mexico's president Felipe Calderon speaks during the opening of the Plan Puebla Panama summit in Mexico, April 10, 2007. “I welcome...

The competition for the most powerful position in business journalism ended yesterday as Marcus W. Brauchli was named managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, succeeding Paul E. Steiger, who has held the top job in the newsroom since 1991. Mr. Brauchli, 45, who joined Dow Jones, publisher of The Journal, in 1984 as a copy editor and served for many years as a Journal foreign correspondent, has...

(RSF/IFEX) - On the third anniversary of the abduction and disappearance of French-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer in Abidjan, a news conference about the case was held on 13 April 2007 at the French national assembly by Reporters Without Borders, Kieffer's wife, Osange Silou-Kieffer, his brother, Bernard Kieffer, the president of "Truth for Guy-André Kieffer" support committee, Aline...

The staff of the Mumbai office of Star News was attacked Monday and its offices ransacked by about 50 activists of the so-called Hindu Rashtriya Sena after it broadcast an interview with a runaway couple – a a teenage Hindu girl and a young Muslim man. Policemen are seen through shattered glass panel of the office of the Star news network in Mumbai, India, Monday, April 16, 2007. Hard-line Hindu...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India is set to become the top pay television market in Asia-Pacific by 2015, but excessive regulation could hamstring growth and commoditise the industry, research firm Media Partners Asia (MPA) said in a report. Indian pay TV revenue from advertising and subscription grew 17 percent in 2006 to $4.2 billion, and was likely to more than double to $10 billion by 2011 and then...

If you Googled "Virginia Tech shooting" or "Virginia shooting" this week, the Internet search engine served up dozens of links to news about the university massacre. Yet some media outlets weren't taking the chance of missing readers' attention by being bumped down the list. The New York Times and The Washington Post, for example, bought keyword ads that put their coverage into the prominent...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned yesterday’s heavy-handed raid by Nigeria’s domestic intelligence agency, the State Security Service, on the Abuja studios of African Independent Television (AIT), a privately-owned station. “With several elections due to be held this year, the federal government is violating the law with impunity in order to control news and information and to silence...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the jailing of Oscar Sánchez Madan, a Matanzas province correspondent of the Miami-based Cubanet website. Arrested on 13 April and summarily tried the same day, Sánchez was sentenced to four years in prison as a “pre-criminal social danger.” His imprisonment brings the number of independent journalists currently held in Cuba to 26. “The total of 27...

afrol News, 18 April - A military tribunal in the Congolese capital Kinshasha condemned the two main defendants - Joël Munganda and Papy Munongo - after they were found guilty of assassinating a Congolese journalist, Franck Ngyke and his wife, Hélène Mpaka. A third defendant,Didier Awatimbine, was sent to prison for life. Franck Ngyke was a political editor of the daily ‘La Reference Plus’ in...