2005-2014

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against 10 people accused in the journalist Gautam Das murder case. Faridpur bureau chief of Dainik Samakal Gautam Das, 30, was brutally killed on November 17 last year. Judge Shahed Noor Uddin of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 framed the charges where six out of the 10 accused were present. He fixed August 22 for trial of the case. The charge-sheeted accused...

Hong Kong --- Amid mounting concern that the Internet might make newspapers obsolete, Chinese propaganda officials and editors of leading dailies are drafting a five-year plan to provide direction for the industry. Newspaper circulation and advertising revenues have been falling in China, as they face increasing competition from the Internet and other new media for advertising dollar, according to...

Accra, Aug. 16, GNA -- A photojournalist was on Wednesday attacked at the 24th February Road Courts by people suspected to be sympathisers of Tibu-Darko, who was picked up by the security agencies for allegedly dealing in narcotic drugs. The Photojournalist, Mr Ebo Hanson, who works with the 93Daily Graphic=94, was in the line of duty trying to take photographs of the accused person when a group...

(IPYS/IFEX) - On the evening of 4 August 2006, Judge Paulo Sérgio Romero Vicente Rodrigues, of the Fourth Civil Tribunal of the city of São José do Rio Preto, forbade the newspaper "Bom Dia" to report on a case of international medicine trafficking uncovered in the city, basing his decision on the confidentiality of the legal investigation into the case. The judge's ruling was in response to a...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Two days after her abduction in Baghdad, American journalist Jill Carroll desperately pleaded with her captors to believe she was not hiding an electronic chip somewhere in her body to communicate with U.S. Marines. In a personal account of her 82 days held captive in Iraq, Carroll said a leader of the militant group accused her of secretly tipping off U.S. forces to her...

(FLIP/IFEX) - Seven years after the 13 August 1999 murder of journalist and humourist Jaime Garzón in Bogotá, not one person is being detained for the crime. The only person found guilty of it was paramilitary commander Carlos Castaño, whose whereabouts have been unknown since April 2004. During the trial Juan Pablo Ortiz and Edilberto Sierra Ayala were detained as suspected of having carried out...

When a new medium like the Internet comes along, it is very easy to predict the doom of the old. Exciting new media dynamics certainly cast a shadow over the incumbents, but the advent of new technology has always caused people to predict the demise of the seemingly obsolete established players. The invention of radio was going to kill newspapers; the advent of television was going to kill radio...

Blogger Anthony Citrano is on the hunt to purchase an add-on car navigation system before he takes a cross-country trek from Massachusetts later this year. Rather than relying solely on information found on several manufacturers' Web sites, Citrano is getting feedback from consumer-generated content on blogs and wikis. "I went to the companies' Web site for the technical stuff, but what meant more...

NEW YORK: The newspaper industry faces a $20 billion revenue gap over the next five years if advertising and circulation revenue continue its downward spiral, according to a new report from the Burlingame, Calif.-based research firm Outsell. The firm based its projection on the industry's reliance on paid circulation, which has been slipping at an alarming rate over the past several years. "The...

New York, August 15, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by a television editor’s court conviction on a criminal defamation charge. The municipal court in the southern city of Prokuplje upheld a lower court ruling against Slavko Savic, senior editor of the local television station RTV Kursumlija. The court, ruling on August 10, sentenced Savic to a suspended prison term and one...