2005-2014

AFFLUENT AMERICANS ARE READING MORE consumer magazines and using the Internet for certain business transactions much more in 2006 than they did just a year ago, according to the Mendelsohn Affluent Survey, an annual study investigating the habits of Americans with income exceeding $85,000 a year. The news for print publications was especially encouraging, according to Mitch Lurin, the president of...

Two senior editors at a Nasdaq-listed Chinese internet portal have been fired after an online survey revealed deep discontent among their fellow citizens. More than 65 per cent of Chinese respondents to the survey would choose to be born in another country if they could live their lives over again, the poll at Netease.com indicated. Chief news editor Tang Yan and chief commentary editor Liu...

BANGALORE: The 67th Annual General Meeting of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) on Monday elected Hormusji N. Cama of the Bombay Samachar Weekly as its president for the year 2006-2007. He succeeds Jacob Mathew of Malayala Manorama. Bahubali S. Shah of Gujarat Samachar was elected deputy president, while Paresh Nath of Women's Era the vice-president, Sunil Dang of Day After honorary treasurer and...

Recent developments in the media highlight the importance of examining and understanding issues relating to gender in the media against the backdrop of globalisation, in general, and media globalisation, in particular. This is easier said than done because it is relatively uncharted territory. While both globalisation and media globalisation have received considerable attention from scholars and...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, September 19, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the disappearance of one independent journalist in the central Uzbek city of Jizzakh and the arrest of another. Dzhamshid Karimov, a former correspondent of the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), who wrote critically about both local and federal officials, disappeared...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called for a full review of the case that saw an editor successfully prosecuted on September 15 for defamation under UNTAC law instead of the Cambodian Press Law. Dam Sith, editor in chief and publisher of the newspaper Khmer Conscience, was sentenced in absentia to pay a fine of 8 million riel (USD 2,000) for disinformation and 10...

(FNJ/IFEX) - A group of people padlocked the newspaper office of the Morang-based newspaper "Mofussil Weekly" on 15 September 2006. It was padlocked in response to the newspaper having published a report that said a Maoist cadre, Bhim Tamang, had tried to sexually assault a minor girl. FNJ Morang reports that, according to "Mofussil Weekly" editor Narendra Rai, Nabaraj Tumba, from the Maoist...

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has condemned the beating which three journalists working for the Canal 6 de Julio television documentary production company - Mario Viveros Barragán, Juan Pablo Ramos Jiménez and Miguel Angel Fuentes Cortina - received at the hands of police officers when they filmed them arresting a youth gang in the centre of the capital on the night of 15 September 2006. The press freedom...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced "deep concern about the future of democracy in Burundi" after Aloys Kabura, the state-owned Agence Burundaise de Presse's correspondent in the northern city of Kayanza, was sentenced on 18 September 2006 by a court in Ngozi to five months in prison for "rebellion" and "defamatory statements." Kabura was arrested on 31 May for comments he made in a...

(Globe International/IFEX) - In the northern province of Huvsgul, a journalist and her coworkers have repeatedly received threats from businessmen concerning critical articles. U. Gereltuya, editor of the Huvsgul-based newspaper "Khuvsguliin erkh chuluu" ("Freedom of Khuvsgul"), which has approximately 500 subscribers, said, "We repeatedly receive threats and are insulted by businessmen." For...