2005-2014

Caracas, Venezuela, September 16, 2006 - The South American Television Network Telesur announced the creation of a news agency to rival Reuters and the Associated Press, this Thursday. Andres Izarra, President of the Venezuela-based Telesur, made the declaration at the 14th Non-Aligned Summit this week. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Havana on Thursday for the highly anticipated...

ISLAMABAD: A former secretary general of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists suffered injuries when Federal Minister of Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis Ghulam Sarwar Khan’s guards thrashed him outside Parliament House, news reports said. The incident occurred when the deputy editor of the daily Ausaf, C R Shamsi, requested the minister to solve the longstanding 7th Wage Board Award...

An international press freedom watchdog has urged Eritrea to free 13 journalists who have been held "incommunicado" in secret jails for the past five years without trial. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) also denounced the continued detention of the journalists, who were seized in a 2001 government crackdown. "Not only is the government continuing to hold these prisoners...

New York, September 15, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the ruling of an Iranian appeals court upholding a one-year prison sentence against Kurdish journalist and human rights activist Mohammad Sadiq Kabudvand. The court of appeals in the northwestern province of Kurdistan ordered him to serve the suspended jail term, the semiofficial Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA)...

Penn State University still offers classes in journalism and Ford Risley, the head of the journalism department, tells students that exciting changes are happening in the newspaper business where traditionally print-focused publications are posting stories online, setting up blogs and learning to podcast. Yet living in interesting times isn't always the easiest thing to do as evidenced by the...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, September 15, 2006 - Five years after Eritrea's brutal crackdown on the independent press, the Committee to Protect Journalists today called for the release of 13 journalists held incommunicado in secret jails and two other journalists forced into extended military service. Basic information about the jailed journalists - most of whom were swept up in a September 18, 2001...

The Indian Media Group (IMG) has called on the Government to ensure that all provisions of the proposed Broadcasting Bill including content code are applied to Prasar Bharti and Doordarshan. In a communication to the Government, the Group, which is an umbrella society representing Indian companies in television broadcasting, radio and print media sectors, has pointed out that this was essential as...

Spain's two largest newspapers, El País and El Mundo, have launched into a fierce row over their reporting of investigations into the Islamist train bombings that killed 191 Madrid commuters two and a half years ago. The outbreak of hostilities between the country's most influential dailies follows the publication in El Mundo of a series of interviews with a small-time Spanish crook accused of...

The India Today group is going to launch a morning daily general newspaper. The proposed newspaper is expected to be launched in Delhi. With this move, the Aroon Purie-promoted media giant will clash head on with Bennett, Coleman & Co (which runs Times of India) and Hindustan Times Ltd. India Today CEO Ashish Bagga declined to comment on the group’s new foray. However,industry sources said it was...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Senior journalist, Maqbool Hussain Siyal, who was also a district Correspondent for Online News Network, DIK, was shot dead by some unidentified gunmen. The 32-year old journalist was on his way to meet PPPP leader Nawab Azek ‘s residence when two unknown gunmen riding a bike fired upon him near a Toyota showroom situated on the northern Circular Road. Bullets pierced the...