2005-2014

It was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre, is an icon of the left and a keystone of the recent cultural and political history of France. But now Liberation, the iconic Paris-based newspaper, is facing a financial crisis that could change it forever or even force its closure. One of the few beneficiaries of the crisis are the bars and cafes of the Haut Marais quarter of Paris where the newspaper is based...

NEW YORK - The U.S. military has been holding an Iraqi photographer working for The Associated Press since April, and the agency asked Sunday that he either be charged or released. Bilal Hussein, 35, was taken into U.S. military custody on April 12 in the Iraqi city of Ramadi and has been held since then without charge, AP said. “Bilal Hussein has been held in violation of Iraqi law and in...

PARIS: Help Wanted: Aging former Maoists seek wealthy industrialist to help finance and lead modernization of money-losing French daily newspaper. Capitalist approach welcome, but profit not expected. Libération, the newspaper founded by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and members of the extreme political left, says the end is nigh. The paper's largest shareholder, Edouard de Rothschild, a member...

THEY say that everything is bigger in America, and this was certainly true at the Los Angeles Times last week. Declining newspaper sales might be raising tensions between journalists and corporate owners all over the place, but they have reached unprecedented levels on LA’s most famous newspaper. Having refused to make new staff cuts on the back of over 200 redundancies over the past five years...

Pushed on the backfoot over its decision on new controls over the distribution of news, photographs and graphics by foreign news agencies, China has called it is only a "transitional arrangement" and a government department would eventually take over the responsibility. GIVEN A BAD NAME AND INCARCERATED: Protesters hold placards featuring a portrait of Straits Times correspondent Ching Cheong...

An independent network of journalists in four Central Asian countries has launched an innovative, web-based news analysis service – News Briefing Central Asia. STAFF WORKSHOP: Particpants at a workshop of the International War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) at Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic October 30, 2001. The agency used a pilot phase begun in August to build up a strong team of journalists and editors

Besides separatist violence, a disinformation campaign and propaganda against the Indian State run by Pakistan is yet another battle ground in Jammu and Kashmir. Various official media units of the Government of India, primarily Doordarshan, shell out a good amount of money every month on making special programs and documentaries showcasing the democracy and secularism of India but at the end of...

Press freedom and human rights groups around the world have expressed outrage at the death in custody of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalist Ogulsapar Muradova. Muradova, 58, died in prison in Turkmenistan with reported injuries to her head, RFE/RL said. DEATH UNNATURAL: This picture released by Radio Free Europe and taken in Ashgabat in 2004 during a wedding, shows Ogulsapar

Six years after Ukranian journalist Heorhiy Gongadze was murdered, his killers remain unpunished. Worse, press freedom organisations fear justice may never be done. ALWAYS REMEMBERED: Ukranian journalist Heorhiy Gongadze disappeared on September 16, 2000. Two months later, a body with the cut-off head was found in the woodland near Kiev and identified as that of Gongadze. The death of Ukrayinska

Kathmandu, Sep 16 (IANS) Three years after a fierce opposition to alleged Indian investment in the media, Nepal's new government is now thinking of liberalising this sector, including allowing up to 49 percent foreign direct investment. After the fall in April of King Gyanendra's regime that had imposed harsh restrictions on the media, the new seven-party alliance (SPA) that came to power on the...