2005-2014

New York, September 11, 2006—Islamist authorities detained a journalist for two days and shut an independent radio station for a similar period in separate incidents this weekend, according to news reports and the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ). In Beledweyne, a western town controlled by the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), authorities jailed journalist Osman Adan Areys of the private...

The mass media in Israel have recently faced an unprecedented attack from readers, listeners and viewers who are unwilling to accept the media's conduct during the Second Lebanon War. This may be partially due to the conduct of the war and its outcome. The official communications authorities are trying, albeit somewhat hesitantly, to take a stand, but do not conceal their dissatisfaction. The...

New York, September 11, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the murder of an editor of Iraq’s state-run daily Al-Sabah. Abdel Karim al-Rubai, 40, a design editor for the newspaper, was shot Saturday morning while traveling to work in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood known as Camp Sara by several gunmen. The driver of the car was seriously wounded, media sources told CPJ. “We deplore...

"Today it is impossible to prevent publication," says the new president of the Israel Press Council, Dalia Dorner. "If newspaper A does not publish certain material, it will be published by newspaper B, and if not by newspaper B then on television, and if not on television then in a blog." This was the former justice's response to the not-so-hypothetical question of how she would react if she...

The attacks that killed almost 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001, started a new kind of conflict, one that President Bush calls a war on terror. As the months and years pass, the war fades into the background of many Americans’ daily lives. But the cost is very real, and it’s constantly escalating. It’s the duty of journalists to keep the American public aware of this cost. In its pages of...

BAGHDAD -- A month-long ban imposed by Iraq's government on Dubai-based satellite channel Al Arabiya highlights the delicate path that media in Iraq must tread between dangerous insurgents and prickly authorities. More than 100 journalists have been killed in Iraq in the past three years while others have been imprisoned by the US-led coalition, and Iraqi officials have had a difficult...

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld the contempt of court citation against a freelance journalist who is refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigating an anarchists' protest he videotaped. A federal grand jury subpoenaed Joshua Wolf to acquire the 30 minutes of unpublished material, but he refused and was ordered jailed Aug. 1. He was released a month later as he appealed his case...

The second Gender and Media summit closed in Johannesburg Friday with a call for greater media diversity in all areas - ownership, content and audiences, according to a statement from organisers. Held under the theme “Media Diversity: Good for Democracy, good for business” the summit highlighted a number of ways in which the media is failing in one of its core functions - giving voice to the...

A U.N. tribunal charged a Croat journalist with contempt of court on Monday for revealing the names of two witnesses who testified in a war crimes case. Freelance journalist Domagoj Margetic named the protected witnesses from the trial of General Tihomir Blaskic on his personal Web site in July and August of this year, the tribunal said in a statement. The U.N. tribunal for the former Yugoslavia...

Environment comprises a minuscule 0.35 per cent of news on popular Hindi news channels, closely trailing agriculture at 0.4 per cent and health at 0.5 per cent. GREEN-HUED, BUT NOT THAT MUCH: A view of the Sahara Samay newsroom. Sahara Samay, the survey found, also led in terms of diversity in the coverage of news, closely followed by DD News and NDTV Hindi. Diversity of environmental news...