2005-2014

The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Ukraine violated the press freedom rights of a newspaper editor convicted in 2001 on criminal defamation charges stemming from a series of stories about two government officials, Committee to Protect Journalists said on its website Friday. The court found that Oleg Lyashko, former editor of the independent Kiev weekly Polityka, reported on...

THE teenage lifestyle magazine market is in “serious decline”, with ABC results next week expected to reveal a significant fall in circulation numbers, according to industry sources. The findings will be released just days after Emap, the media group, closed Sneak, the teenage celebrity gossip magazine, conceding that teenagers were now getting their showbiz news on the internet. Smash Hits...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced outrage at an attack on Indian journalist D.N. Mohanty, who was beaten unconscious in his home in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on 31 July 2006, and at the attempts of both Bangladeshi and Indian authorities to hush up the case. "In view of the repeated attacks against journalists in Bangladesh, the authorities ought to seriously consider the...

New York, August 11, 2006—Colombian radio host Milton Fabián Sánchez was gunned down on Wednesday night outside his home in Yumbo, in the southwestern Valle del Cauca province. The Committee to Protect Journalists is investigating whether there is a connection between the murder and Sánchez’ work. A masked assailant shot Sánchez three times in the face at 9:45 p.m., the journalist’s colleague...

A Seoul court Friday dropped criminal charges against a television news reporter who broke the story on the spy agency's illegal eavesdropping on civilians during previous governments last year. Lee Sang-ho, a reporter from television station MBC, had been indicted for violating the country's privacy law by publicly revealing evidence obtained by illegal methods. In July last year, MBC reported...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the death of Ayfer Serçe, a young Kurdish journalist and militant, during an army operation against Kurdish rebels on 24 July 2006 in Keleres, in the northeastern province of Azarbayjan, and called on the Iranian authorities to provide an explanation. A Turkish national, Serçe worked for the Firat Haber Ajansi (Euphrates News Agency - FHA) using...

(IAPA/IFEX) - MIAMI, Florida (July 28, 2006) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today announced that it is awarding its Grand Prize for Press Freedom for 2006 to a disappeared Mexican journalist, Alfredo Jiménez Mota from the Hermosillo daily newspaper El Imparcial. The award will be presented to his family members in October. As a consequence of publication in April 2005 of the series...

The managing editor of CJRDaily.org, an online adjunct of The Columbia Journalism Review, and his deputy both quit yesterday after the dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism told them he was cutting the site’s budget nearly in half. The dean, Nicholas Lemann, said in an interview that the amount of money raised for the Web site could not sustain the online staff, and he was...

TOTAL newspaper readership in Australia has declined by just 0.8 per cent in the past 12 months despite intensifying competition from other media. News Limited, publisher of about 70 per cent of the nation's newspapers, said the decline appeared mainly due to readers shifting from printed newspapers to websites. News chairman and chief executive John Hartigan said: "Despite often quoted concerns...

(SEAPA/IFEX) - Vietnam filtering, monitoring Internet more, says study The Open Net Initiative (ONI), in a recently released study on Vietnam, is reporting an increase in Internet censorship in the country. The research finds that Vietnamese officials are particularly bent on filtering content that questions the country's one-party system. ONI also says that, apparently paying close attention to...