2005-2014

MANILA, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Philippine national police said on Thursday they arrested an officer from a local force and two other men over the shooting of a newspaper reporter last month, at least the tenth attack on journalists this year. Roger Panizal, who covers the crime beat for the "Tiktik" tabloid in northern Manila, survived five bullet wounds, including one behind his ear. Other Filipino...

New York, September 7, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the decision of the Iraqi government today to close the Baghdad bureau of the Dubai-based satellite channel Al-Arabiya for one month. The station reported that police entered its Baghdad offices to halt operations after the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered the suspension. Al-Arabiya Executive Editor...

About 23 years ago, when I started an advertising agency, there were two initial, formidable hurdles to clear. The INS (then IENS) accreditation, and a DAVP accreditation. The Indian Newspaper Society accreditation seemed logical. After all, if publishers were going to give me 60 days credit and 15 per cent commission for any business I placed with them, they had to safeguard their interests. What...

MODERN newspapers face some tough decisions, but there is still a bright future for those that remember why they exist in the first place. The Australian passionately rejects the view of the London-based weekly, The Economist, that newspapers face bleak prospects. On the contrary, good newspapers that know how to break news, are clear in what they stand for and have the confidence to challenge and...

The threat was delivered in May by text message - quit journalism or you’ll be beheaded. The IWPR reporter ignored the warning on his cell phone and got on with his job - but more intimidation followed. In his hometown Hawije, in Kirkuk province, people tend to take such threats very seriously, as it’s a stronghold of Sunni insurgents who frequently target Iraqi and multinational troops. The...

NEW YORK: In today's Iraq, intellectuals are targets of a widespread, often ethnically driven campaign of murder. Many have fled their homes, or even the country, to protect their families. Doctors, engineers, professors and even teachers seek new careers in parts of Iraq where their ethnic or sectarian group is in the majority. But one class of professionals cannot escape the violence because its...

GORNO-ALTAISK, September 6 (Itar-Tass) - The Prosecutor's Office of the Altai republic has exposed the murderer of journalist from Omsk Alexander Petrov and his family, First Deputy Prosecutor of the republic Sergei Shukhin told Itar-Tass on Wednesday. The murder was committed in early August. According to the official, “The suspect surrendered the murder weapon, although he had initially claimed...

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has condemned measures taken by courts in Brasilia and the southeastern state of Minas Gerais aimed at gagging the press just a few weeks before the 1 October 2006 general elections. "It does not take a degree in rocket science to know what Brasilia's regional electoral court seems to have realised, that press revelations about candidates can have a major impact on elections," the...

Tian Congming, president of Xinhua News Agency, said on Wednesday that Xinhua would enhance cooperation with the Japanese Jiji News Agency. Tian said in a meeting with visiting Jiji president Wakabayashi Seizo that Xinhua and Jiji have maintained steady cooperation. He said he believed the visit of Wakabayashi will serve to deepen the bilateral cooperation. Tian called on both sides to make joint...

MUMBAI - India's newspaper readership happily grew over the past year, according to the country's annual National Readership Survey (NRS) 2006. But it also found that magazine readership is down, television viewing is up and, controversially, Internet growth has slowed. The largest media exercise of its kind in the world, the study sample involved an unprecedented 284,373 house-to-house interviews...