2005-2014

The opposition in Kyrgyzstan is pressing the government to investigate a recent arson attack which put the country’s only independent nationwide television broadcaster out of action. The incident highlights continuing concerns about how committed the administration of President Kurmanbek Bakiev is to freedom of speech The attack on Piramida TV took place overnight on September 27 to 28, when...

Newspapers are all looking for ways to gain readers, and many have hired consultants to help them. In an unusual twist, The Los Angeles Times is looking to chart its future by using its own reporters and editors, who rank among the best investigators in the business. The Times is dedicating three investigative reporters and half a dozen editors to find ideas, at home and abroad, for re-engaging...

A journalism fellowship at Stanford University will keep a $1 million grant from Yahoo Inc. despite criticism of the company’s decision to turn over information on journalists to Chinese authorities. The Yahoo money given to the John S. Knight Fellowship is slated to bring one journalist to campus each year for the next decade from countries where the news media is restricted. Some former Knight...

Britain's highest court handed a protective shield to investigative journalism yesterday, when it ruled in a landmark judgment that newspapers and broadcasters who act responsibly and who are reporting on stories of public importance need not fear libel actions. The ruling in favour of a "public interest" defence for important stories brings English libel law more in line with that of the United...

Times Online, the website of the Times and Sunday Times, is planning a major redesign and relaunch. The overhaul, scheduled to happen within the next few weeks, follows a recent revamp of the website's travel section to include a search engine that readers use to create tailored web pages on selected holiday destinations. Similar changes are understood to have been planned for other sections on...

The International Federation of Journalists today issued a challenge to the Government of India to provide a strategic vision of the future of the country’s media in the face of what it describes as a “growing and profound” crisis within Indian journalism. In a letter to the Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, the IFJ says that action is urgently needed to manage the dramatic expansion of...

New York, October 11, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists today demanded that Iraqi authorities release Al-Hayat correspondent Kalshan al-Bayati, who was detained in Tikrit three weeks ago. Al-Bayati has been held without charge since she went to the security forces headquarters in Tikrit on September 18 to retrieve a personal computer confiscated during a raid on her home, according to CPJ...

The second round of the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) by Hansa Research and the Market Research Users Council (MRUC) shows that while there has been an increase in overall media consumption, the frequency and the time spent on such consumption has declined over the last few years. All categories expect the internet have registered a decline in the average consumption time. While the readership of...

New York, October 10, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the reported murder of an Iraqi journalist, whose body was identified in the Baghdad morgue today, a week after he had been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen. The Journalistic Freedoms Observatory, an Iraqi press freedom organization, said the body of Azad Muhammad Hussein, 29, a reporter for the Iraqi Islamic Party-owned...

Aids activists and journalists are mourning the death of Omololu Falobi, founding member and the director of Journalists against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria. He died from injuries sustained in an armed robbery on Thursday. Falobi was shot by robbers on his way back from speaking to young entrepreneurs on the importance of social responsibility. He passed away this Sunday. A multiple-awards winning...