2005-2014

Reporting on incidents relating to militants and militancy in Manipur is increasingly making life difficult for journalists here. The latest episode has been the death threat against the Imphal Free Press over a report about the killing of two suspected militants in an encounter that the newspaper carried last week. The threat has since been withdrawn but working conditions for journalists remain...

NEW DELHI, Jul 30 (IPS) - Maldives, in the Indian Ocean, is known as an island paradise for those who want to get away from it all. But, not so well known is the fact that it is a hell for journalists and dissidents who dare criticise the 28-year-old regime of President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. Gayoom is currently under severe criticism from international media groups for denying his country's 300...

Here is a media & health paradox: despite low levels of literacy among the populations most at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS, a recent study has found greater coverage of HIV/AIDS stories in print media rather than in broadcast media. Of the 356 stories sampled over two-week monitoring periods, 281 (79 per cent) were from the print media and 75 (21 per cent) from the broadcast media. While more...

Pakistan does not investigate murders of its own journalists as vigorously as it does of foreign journalists. An international press freedom group last week urged Pakistan to investigate the deaths of seven Pakistani journalists as diligently as it did the killing of US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002. ABDUCTED AND MURDERED: Hayatullah Khan, a Pakistani journalist, is seen during his funural near

Press freedom organisations are outraged by the decision of a judge in Burkina Faso to drop charges against the only suspect in the 1998 murder of a journalist probing criminal allegations against the president's family. BROTHER'S PRESIDENT: Before his death, Norbert Zongo was investigating allegations that François Compaoré, brother and special advisor to President Blaise Compaoré (above)

A seventh journalist in Colombia has been forced to flee following death threats. Marcos Perales Mendoza, editor of La Portada, an investigative monthly based in Barrancabermeja (in the northern department of Santander), has been forced to flee the region by the death threats he has been getting since May 2005 in response to his articles about local corruption. He finally decided to leave after

PARIS: Already famed for angry labour strikes and philosophical debates in smoke-filled cafes, the French have now brought these passions online to become some of the world's most intensive bloggers. The French distinguish themselves, both statistically and anecdotally, ahead of Germans, Britons and even Americans in their obsession with the personal and public journals of the Internet age. 60% of...

Everybody knows that online news is free and that technologically brilliant search engines like Google and Yahoo have been stealing readers -- and revenues -- away from technologically challenged newspaper companies and wire services. It's a common perception, but it's false. Google and Yahoo, along with dozens of other Internet companies, have been quietly agreeing to deals that compensate some...

CAIRO, Egypt -- For Arab news media, the war between Israel and Hezbollah is a fresh chapter in a tale with strong emotional pull and well-defined enemies, and has pushed Iraq to the back of newscasts and off front pages. "Iraqi news has not been ignored by the Arab satellite channels' newscast, it still exists, but has decreased sharply in the last two weeks," said Sameeha Dahroug, the former...