2005-2014

Sometimes simply being in the trenches isn't enough to keep up with an industry, especially when one is battling for users and advertisers in the ever-morphing local media business. Newspaper publishers and local TV outlets know it. Now some are transferring their staffers out of the school of hard knocks and sending them back to the books. Ninety editorial and sales people from Lee Enterprises...

New York, February 20, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by the severe deterioration in the health of independent journalist Nguyen Vu Binh, 39, who has been imprisoned since 2002. When Binh’s family visited him in Nam Ha prison on February 15, he was so thin and weak that he could not hold a conversation, walk well, or lift his 5-year-old daughter, according to human rights...

The Mozambique Supreme Court has validated the pronouncement by the Maputo city Judicial Court that tried and sentenced six co-accused to heavy prison terms in January 2003 in the murder of investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso. Cardoso was gunned down on November 22, 2000, while investigating the 1996 embezzlement of US$14 million from the state-controlled Commercial Bank of Mozambique (BCM)

An Iranian website fiercely critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been shut down in an apparent fresh crackdown on anti-government dissent on the internet, according to the Guardian. The Baztab.com site was banned on February 12 for violating last November’s rules, which forbid the publication of "false" information, "violating the constitution" and attacking "personal privacy" or "the...

The deputy editor of the settler newspaper Nekuda, Hayuta Deutsch, has been fired in the wake of ideological differences with editor Motti Karpel. According to sources at the paper, Karpel, who in the past was among the Jewish Leadership group headed by Moshe Feiglin, is giving Nekuda more of a messianic and less of a right-wing political hue, as the paper had been characterized until now. Nekuda...

BAKU - Azeri authorities have arrested two journalists, who work at a newspaper that covers Iranian issues, for high treason, a spokesman for the ministry of national security said today. The spokesman said Novruzali Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the Tolishi Sado newspaper that covers the Iranian community in Azerbaijan, and Elman Guliyev, another editor at the paper, had been detained but gave...

(February 20, 2007) — My suggestion for publishers, editors and news managers dealing daily with the cost-cutting that plagues newsrooms around the country is to fire someone. But don’t fire a reporter, copy editor, or a photog. What I’m proposing might not win me any friends at the major wire services. I’m certainly not going to win any popularity contests. But allow me to get a few points across...

Four newspapers have been crowned "World's Best Designed" by a panel of judges at the 28th annual The Best of Newspaper Design Creative Competition of the Society for News Design (SND). The winners are: Äripev (Tallinn, Estonia); El Economista (Madrid, Spain); Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (Frankfurt, Germany); and Politiken (Copenhagen, Denmark) Meeting at Syracuse University in New York...

(February 20, 2007) -- My suggestion for publishers, editors and news managers dealing daily with the cost-cutting that plagues newsrooms around the country is to fire someone. But don't fire a reporter, copy editor, or a photog. What I'm proposing might not win me any friends at the major wire services. I'm certainly not going to win any popularity contests. But allow me to get a few points...

A local journalist has been killed by unknown armed men in Afghanistan's northwest Faryab province, said a local official Monday. "Two armed men riding a motorbike opened fire on Rahman Qul near his home in Ankhoi district Sunday afternoon and killed him on the spot," provincial governor Abdul Latif Ibrahimi told Xinhua. It is not clear if the attackers were militants and an investigation is...