2005-2014

(IMI/IFEX) - The General Prosecutor Office has closed the investigation on the violent death of former minister of internal affairs Yuriy Kravchenko, a key figure in the Gyorgy Gongadze case, Prosecutor General Oleksandr Medvedko told a press conference in Kyiv on 28 February 2007. "Within the criminal case instituted over the fact of death of Kravchenko, the decision was taken to close the...

(MISA/IFEX) - On March 2, 2007, controversial church pastor Justice Dlamini threatened two journalists with death through divine intervention. Dlamini shocked a church gathering, which also included Cabinet Ministers, when he declared from the pulpit that he was praying for the death of two journalists, "Times of Swaziland" Managing Editor Martin Dlamini and reporter Nhlanhla Mathunjwa, whom he...

New York, March 6, 2007 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by the Thai government’s decision today to take control of iTV, Thailand’s only privately owned and managed television news station. The takeover was expected after the government announced last week it would terminate iTV’s license on Tuesday – the deadline for paying nearly 100 billion baht (US$2.8billion) in fines...

The Village Voice named its fifth editor in chief in a little over a year yesterday after abruptly firing David Blum from the position on Friday afternoon. Tony Ortega, 43, the editor of The Broward-Palm Beach New Times, an alternative weekly, will take over as editor in chief this week, said Maggie Shnayerson, a spokeswoman for The Village Voice. “I’m just very excited about going to The Voice,”...

BOSTON (Reuters) - A veteran Boston Globe reporter has been suspended for plagiarizing parts of a football column from another publication, the newspaper said on Tuesday in the latest incident to embarrass the U.S. media. The Globe, which is owned by The New York Times Co., said it suspended sports writer Ron Borges for two months without pay because of a "football notes" column that ran on March...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the mistreatment of Sudanese cameraman Sami Al-Haj of the pan-Arab TV station Al-Jazeera by the US authorities at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre after he began a hunger strike on 7 January on completing his fifth year in US custody without trial. “Al-Haj has been held by the Americans for five years without being charged, in disgraceful conditions and...

At first, Ann Coulter's anti-gay crack at a Washington conference Friday drew almost no media coverage, although it was witnessed by hundreds of journalists and political operatives and captured by television cameras. But after some Democrats and liberal bloggers slammed the professional provocateur -- and were joined by a number of Republicans and conservatives -- it became a news story, albeit a...

The "social journalism" that made Oprah Winfrey an international fairy godmother is the new rage in network and cable news, and it's expanding to other media. Increasingly, journalists and talk-show hosts want to "own" a niche issue or problem, find ways to solve it and be associated with making this world a better place, as Winfrey has done with obesity, literacy and, most recently, education by...

Reporters Without Borders has learned of the death of two journalists in Baghdad, bringing to 152 the number of media personnel murdered in Iraq since the start of the conflict in March 2003. A journalist has also been kidnapped in the northern town of Kirkuk. Mohan Hussein al-Dhahr, 49, editor of the daily al-Mishrak, was killed in a botched kidnap outside his home in the al-Jami’a district in...

KANSAS CITY, Mo.: Two newspapers have asked an appeals court to overturn a judge's ruling that forced the papers to remove articles about an area utility from their Web sites and temporarily barred the papers from publishing the story. Lawyers for The Kansas City Star, a daily, and The Pitch, a weekly, filed their motion on Monday, saying Friday's order by Jackson County Circuit Judge Kelly...