2005-2014

As Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi today inaugurated festivities marking the 30 anniversary of his proclamation of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Reporters Without Borders pointed out that there is still no news of Abdullah Ali Al-Sanussi Al-Darrat, a journalist who was arrested 34 years ago. “Six months after we visited Libya, nothing has changed,” the press freedom...

Reporters Without Borders voiced its support today for the staff of the TV station Cable Guatevisión, who have been receiving death threats since 25 February after broadcasting a report about the murder of four detained police officers inside a prison. The organisation fears criminal infiltration of the police. “The execution of four policemen inside a top-security prison where they were being...

(IFJ/IFEX): The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), supported by a coalition of international and local press freedom and journalists' organisations, has demanded action from the Pakistan government in response to the growing incidents of violence against journalists and the deteriorating press freedom situation. The mission for press freedom, led by the IFJ and its affiliate, the...

Mohamed Alayyan could easily pass for one of his employees at ATV, the new terrestrial television station he plans to launch in Jordan later this year. Dressed in casual shirt and trousers, the 33-year-old looks more like one of his bright young employees rushing about planning programmes and schedules than the boss and owner. While many of his fellow entrepreneurs in the west are vying to create...

Two years after the contract-style assassination of Azerbaijaini opposition editor Elmar Huseynov, his murderers remain at large. When Huseynov, an editor and founder of the newsweekly Monitor, was gunned down in his Baku apartment building on March 2, 2005, President Ilham Aliyev called the murder a “provocation against the Azerbaijani state” and an “act of terrorism.” But despite these

News and media websites were identified as being among the fastest growing UK sites experiencing a 28 per cent growth this January, according to figures released by Hitwise. Both the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian Unlimited websites have also reported a positive start to 2007 with the Guardian confirming a record number of visitors in January (15.7 million visitors confirmed by ABC). And just...

So you may have heard: Paris Hilton was ticketed the other day for driving with a suspended license. Not huge news, even by celebrity-gossip standards. Here at The Associated Press, we put out an initial item of some 300 words. But it actually meant more to us than that. It meant the end of our experimental blackout on news about Paris Hilton. It was only meant to be a weeklong ban _ not the...

NEW YORK: Tribune Co. has agreed to sell its two smallest newspapers, both in Connecticut, to Gannett for more than $65 million, The Washington Post reports today. But what does this signal about the company's desire to sell off the entire company? . The Post relates that Tribune offered the Greenwich Time and Stamford Advocate to two prospective buyers, Gannett and MediaNews Group, "according to...

New York, March 2, 2007 —The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed that authorities in the capital, Libreville, have suspended a satirical newspaper for three months, apparently after it published commentary critical of President Omar Bongo, according to news reports and local journalists. The official National Communications Council (CNC) suspended the private bimonthly Edzombolo on Tuesday...

March 2, 2007 · A federal judge issued a one-page order Thursday vacating contempt findings and sanctions in the case of two San Francisco Chronicle reporters who refused to divulge their source in the BALCO steroids investigation. The order from U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in San Francisco signaled the official end of Lance Williams' and Mark Fainaru-Wada's nearly yearlong legal battle to...