2005-2014

The broadsheet newspaper is as American as Patrick Henry's great speech and Irving Berlin's songs, and in fact going back into history, the width of the newpaper page was even broader. But how Americans partake of their information is changing, led by the internet, and one effect is that the traditional broadsheet is being trimmed and in many places replaced entirely by the smaller tabloid format...

New York, August 9, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a murderous attack against the Kaieteur News printing plant that came amid a series of violent episodes in Georgetown, Guyana's capital, on Tuesday night. Masked assailants with automatic weapons killed four printing staff employees execution-style, the newspaper's owner told CPJ today. A fifth printing plant employee was...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has said it took note of a claim by the prosecutor general that former economic development minister Farkhad Aliev, who is being held on a charge of financing a coup attempt, was involved in the March 2005 murder of Elmar Huseynov, the editor of the "Monitor" opposition weekly. Prosecutor general Zakir Garalov told journalists on 8 August 2006 that evidence...

Reporters Without Borders today denounced India’s security services for their persecution of photojournalist Muhammad Maqbool Khokar (better known as Maqbool Sahil), who has been imprisoned since 18 September 2004 under an emergency security law, and called for the country’s journalists to campaign to free him. Requests by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court and the National Human Rights...

SYDNEY Australia's competition regulator will scrutinize the supply of content and advertising opportunities when it rules on takeovers in the nation's 21.1 billion Australian dollar, or $16 billion, media industry, it said Wednesday. Graeme Samuel, chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, issued takeover guidelines that it will apply when restrictions on takeovers end next...

OAXACA, Mexico -- Gunmen attacked a newspaper critical of the Oaxaca state government Wednesday, injuring at least two people in the latest incident in a wave of violence that has driven many tourists from this quaint Mexican city. Police said one worker suffered a minor gunshot wound in the raid on the Noticias newspaper while another had been beaten. No arrests were made and a motive had not...

SAN DIEGO – When he's not playing guitar, a ponytailed musician named Charles Johnson likes to sit in his Los Angeles home office, listen to jazz, and make mincemeat of the mainstream media. He's tangled with CBS over the authenticity of documents about President Bush's National Guard service. This time around, he's uncovered doctored war photos distributed by Reuters, forcing the news service to...

New York, August 9, 2006—Independent journalist Albert Santiago Du Bouchet Hernández was released on Saturday after a year in prison on a spurious charge of “disrespecting” a local police chief. The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Cuban authorities to free the other 24 journalists imprisoned throughout the island. Du Bouchet was released on Saturday night after completing his...

"What's the big deal over a little faked smoke?" That seems to be the prevailing attitude among media pooh-bahs irked by bloggers who exposed the crude Photoshoppery of a Reuters photographer over the weekend. The cameraman, prolific Lebanese stringer and chronicler of Hizballah Adnan Hajj, was fired. But the black cloud of truth-distorting photo fakery, jihadi-sympathizing news staging and sloppy...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Gunmen with automatic weapons stormed Guyana's largest newspaper, killing five people and wounding four in an attack that police said may be linked to the slaying of the South American country's agriculture minister in April. About 10 gunmen attacked just before midnight Tuesday, ordering employees in the printing department of the Kaieteur News to lie on the floor before...