2005-2014

Legislation and a strong industry code of conduct are necessary to end the complicity of Western Internet companies in political censorship in China, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. China’s system of Internet censorship and surveillance, popularly known as the “Great Firewall,” is the most advanced in the world. In the 149-page report, “Race to the Bottom: Corporate Complicity...

Leaders of local Jubo Dal and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal yesterday burnt copies of the daily Prothom Alo and Janakantha for publishing what they say 'false news reports' against State Minister for Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Lutfor Rahman Azad. Jubo Dal and Chhatra Dal leaders at a meeting also declared local correspondents of the dailies persona non grata and pledged to resist the...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has written to Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza voicing concern about the pernicious state of relations between his government and the media, and the alarming number of press freedom violations during his first year in office. "The press plays a stabilising role in democracies by channelling and giving structure to the debates taking place within society...

RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned a months-long campaign of legal and personal harassment of weekly newspaper editor Margarita Zakora and her family and called on the authorities to stop it immediately. "The cynical nature of these attacks is matched by her courage," the worldwide press freedom organisation said. "We demand that the legal action against her be dropped and that...

CHICAGO: Newspapers are doing themselves and their readers a disservice by so strictly obeying the industry’s latest mantra, former Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent Richard C. Longworth argues. “Local news dominates, and it’s not just local, but ‘local, local, local’ they’ve gotta repeat it three times -- and it’s coming at the expense of the newshole for international news,” he says. The...

New York, August 14, 2006—A Brazilian television reporter abducted by a São Paulo criminal gang was released unharmed today after his station broadcast a message by the kidnappers denouncing prison conditions. Reporter Guilherme de Azevedo Portanova and technician Alexandre Coelho Calado of the São Paulo-based TV Globo network were seized on Saturday by members of the gang First Capital Command...

The September issues of fashion magazines hit newsstands this week, thick with ads and advice on what to wear — and buy. Fashion advertising is vigorous in magazines this year. Leading the pack is Vogue with Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette on the cover. Vogue, the perennial heavyweight champion, boasts a hefty 625 advertisement pages, which is not the magazine's best, but good enough to keep it...

JAKARTA, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The fluctuating relations between the Muslim and Western worlds are now seemingly more difficult, especially since the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City on September 11, 2001, popularly known as 9/11. Right after the tragedy which resulted in thousands dead and thousands more injured, condemnation emerged from around the world. Soon after that, Western...

Photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin of Magnum Photos was one of several people injured in an Aug. 6 missile attack in southern Lebanon. Pellegrin and reporter Scott Anderson were traveling together in Tyre on assignment for The New York Times Magazine. They were treated for their injuries and now are back at work in Lebanon. "They're in Beirut. They're fine," says Kathy Ryan, director of photography...

BAKU. Aug 14 (Interfax) - Shakhin Agabeili, the editor of Azerbaijan's Milli Yol [National Road] newspaper who was sentenced to a one-year prison term, has begun a hunger strike, said Fikret Faramazogly, the head of a journalists' rights committee. "Shakhin Agabeili began his hunger action to protest his illegal sentence and the strike will continue until the court's ruling is reversed,"...