2005-2014

Guyana’s leading daily, a vocal critic of the government headed by President Bharrat Jagdeo, is now suffering from a total boycott by state advertisers. “Governments must not allocate advertising to some news media as a reward, and withdraw it from others as a punishment - this is spelled out in the Chapultepec Declaration, which Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo himself signed,” Reporters

It seems all’s fair in the newspaper war over UK’s online audience. Newspapers are stretching advertising limits, and not everyone is liking it. The complainant said that the poster advertisement, which is part of a campaign to promote last week's launch of the new-look Times Online, was “irresponsible” and should not be shown where it can be seen by children. An ad for the new Times Online...

The financially-ailing Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has reached tentative contracts with bargaining units from its 11 different labour unions, lifting a cloud of uncertainty surrounding the future of the 220-year-old daily, the newspaper reported. Votes on the three-year contracts, which would run from January 2007 to March 2010, will take place in the next two weeks, said Newspaper Guild President...

A Belgian court has ruled that Web search leader Google Inc. may not reproduce extracts of Belgian press reports, upholding an existing injunction, news agencies reported on Tuesday. Google, the owner of the world's most-used search engine, must pay 25,000 euros ($32,500) a day until it removes all Belgian news content, the Brussels Court of First Instance ruled, according to a Bloomberg News...

China's advertising expenditure via television, newspapers and magazines reached 386.6 billion yuan (49.5 billion U.S. dollars) in 2006, up 22 percent on the previous year, according to the Nielsen Media Research. Television remained the most favored medium among advertisers, accounting for 81 percent of the total ad expenditure on the three key forms, said Nielsen. Advertisements for medicines...

(APN) ATLANTA – The US military has dropped the controversial subpoenas of two journalists, independent journalist Sarah Olson, who interviewed Lt. Ehren Watada for Truthout.org, and Gregg Kakesako of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, after Watada signed a stipulation agreement with the military. Olson still won’t say for sure whether she was going to refuse to testify, but it appears she would have...

Despite an almost 6 percent decline in sales, Cosmopolitan closed out the second quarter of 2006 as the biggest newsstand seller moving just over 1.9 million copies issue, down from almost 2.1 million copies in the second half of 2005, according to the latest FAS-FAX analysis released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Celebrity weekly, People came in second with almost 1.6 million copies...

Reporters Without Borders hailed the release today of Li Minying, the former director of the newspaper Nanfang Dushi Bao, three years before completing a six-year sentence for alleged corruption. He was arrested in January 2004 at the same time as the newspaper’s manager, Yu Huafeng, who is serving an eight-year sentence. The newspaper’s news editor, Cheng Yizhong, was also detained in 2004 but...

Reporters Without Borders voiced dismay today on learning that freelance photographer Robson Barbosa Bezerra was gunned down on the evening of 8 February as he was returning home in Rio de Janeiro. The organisation expressed its condolences to the family and urged the police to investigate the possibility that he was killed in connection with his work. “If it is confirmed that the motive was...

(CJES/IFEX) - A CJES correspondent has been sentenced to three months in prison on spurious criminal charges. On 22 January 2007, Uzbek journalist and human rights defender Umida Niyazova was arrested and taken to the pre-trial detention unit in the Uzbek city of Andijan. She was detained for four days. On 26 January, she was handed over to the Office for Prosecution of Transport Offenses in...