2005-2014

Shillong, Sept 2 (IANS) People with HIV/AIDS in India's northeast blame an insensitive media for the society stigmatizing the problem that has assumed epidemic proportions. 'I have come across journalists refusing to shake hands, sat a few meters away from me, and didn't even look at my eyes during interview sessions. I always thought journalists would help in breaking the stigma,' Vanlalmuana...

NEW DELHI: In a bid to restore balance between free speech and fair trial, the Law Commission on Thursday came up with a set of controversial proposals to rein in what it called "trial by media". Reacting to aggressive coverage of crime stories, the commission recommended that the media be barred from reporting anything prejudicial to an accused, right from the time he is arrested in the course of...

Under Afghanistan’s post-Taleban government the country has seen an unprecedented flourishing of the media, but the apparent choice of print publications belies the fact that no one is actually reading them. The easiest explanation should be Afghanistan’s high rates of illiteracy, especially but not only among women. Yet that does not appear to be the main reason - instead, the papers themselves...

Hemin Baba Rahim, 26, a reporter with the reputable Kurdish newspaper Hawlati (Citizen), and his wife were sound asleep when security forces raided their home in Kifri, 220 kilometres southeast of Sulaimaniyah. Baba Rahim was arrested, dragged to a car and taken to the offices of the security services where he had to spend a sleepless night with 18 people in a small room. He was released the...

NEW YORK -- Though more marketers plan to advertise on blogs and public forums next year, only a small amount of consumers consider those formats to be trustworthy, according to a new report from Jupiter Research. Only 21% of consumers trust product information within such social media when mulling a product purchase. Consumers are twice as likely to trust information on a corporate Web site or on...

An Apple Inc subcontractor has slashed a libel claim against two Shanghai journalists, who said workers at a plant making iPods were mistreated, from 30 million yuan ($3.77 million) to just 1 yuan (12 cents) to avoid a major PR disaster. BACKGROUND MUSIC: A woman rides a bicycle past advertisements of Apple Computer's iPod in this Friday, August 18, 2006 file photo in Shanghai, China. Apple...

A Chinese court jailed a reporter for a Singapore newspaper for five years on Thursday on a charge of spying, the latest in a series of high-profile cases underscoring China's curbs on the media and dissent. RELEASE HIM: Pro-democracy demonstrators and local legislators hold photos of jailed journalist Ching Cheong as they rally outside the Chinese Liaison office in Hong Kong. The recent jailing...

MUMBAI: Shobhana Bhartiya, Vice Chairperson and Editorial Director of HT Media Ltd, New Delhi, was on Friday elected chairperson of the Audit Bureau Of Circulations for 2006-2007. Bhartiya has been a member of the council of management of ABC since 1999 and deputy chairperson for 2005-2006. A Member of the Rajya Sabha, she is involved with industry bodies in India and abroad. She is also a member...

Conrad Black, the former head of Hollinger, has had his worldwide assets frozen and his income restricted to $20,000 (£10,500) a month. The assets of his wife, Barbara Amiel, have also reportedly been frozen. A court in Ontario issued the freeze at the request of Hollinger Inc, the Canadian company through which Lord Black of Crossharbour once owned the Telegraph newspaper titles and which earlier...

New York, September 1, 2006—A reporter for the private newspaper l’Enquêteur has been jailed since August 28, making him the third journalist imprisoned in Niger in recent weeks, according to local sources. Salif Dago was tried Thursday on charges of publishing false information and sent back to jail, the newspaper’s director Idrissa Soumana Maïga told CPJ. A verdict is expected September 15. The...