2005-2014

Some guys much older than Prince — remember that kid from Haryana — also fell into a hole this week. Although they too were on TV, summoning help for them seemed out of question. Some guys much older than Prince — remember that kid from Haryana — also fell into a hole this week. Although they too were on TV, summoning help for them seemed out of question. They didn’t know they were in a hole. So...

In managing media coverage from Israel of the war in Lebanon, Israeli officials are implementing military censorship guidelines which make specific provisions about general news coverage, coverage of activity leading to the ground operation and coverage of actual combat. For example, it is "strictly forbidden to show a picture of the full battle coverage, with an emphasis of identifying the...

A 73-year-old freelance journalist has been publicly beaten to death in Brazil by a municipal councillor who he recently accused of dubious administration practices. Media freedom groups have condemned the brutal and lethal attack of Ajuricaba Monassa de Paula, a freelance reporter who was affiliated to the Brazilian Press Association (ABI). They say Momassa started arguing in the streets of...

BELGRADE, Serbia, July 28 (UPI) -- Serbian President Boris Tadic says he refused to approve a government law because it suppresses the freedom of media and democracy. "Today, media freedom is essential for democracy of any society. The defense of media freedom is my duty as the head of state, because in that way I defend the constitutional rights of citizens to free expression and information,"...

Banjul, Gambia: Scores of reporters jailed, some emerging with tales of police beatings. Newspapers shuttered. A journalist forced into hiding. This country, a sliver on the West African coast, bills itself to foreigners as a cheerful beach resort, but critics say it shelters a corrupt regime that is using state terror to attack the media and silence opponents before September presidential...

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Paris-based Reporters Without Borders have condemned the murder of Yevgeny Gerasimenko, a correspondent for the independent weekly Saratovsky Rasklad, who was found dead the morning of July 26 in his apartment in Saratov in southeastern Russia, according to local press reports. The groups voiced concern over deteriorating press freedom...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's prosecutor general on Friday rejected a U.S. offer of help to track down the killer of U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov, shot in Moscow two years ago. Klebnikov, the editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, was shot four times as he left his office in July 2004. No one has been convicted of his murder. A Russian jury in May found two men not guilty of the murder...

As Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon have escalated in the past two weeks, photographers flocking to cover the conflict have encountered particularly difficult and dangerous conditions. A Lebanese freelance photographer, 23-year-old Layal Nagib, died July 24 when a bomb exploded near her car during an Israeli attack on Cana, near the coastal city of Tyre in southern Lebanon. Nagib...

Reporters Without Borders today deplored "harassment and death threats" that have forced editor-in-chief You Saravuth to flee to neighbouring Thailand after printing an article criticising a nephew of prime minister Hun Sen. It called on the government to arrest those who made the threats and for the immediate dropping of legal action concerning the article, as well as protection for the editor’s...

NEW YORK: A white paper relased by the Kelsey Group suggests that newspapers would be well advised to form online partnerships in order to stay competitive. The report notes that this strategy has worked in the past. The report suggests that newspapers adapt their Web sites to attract customers who research products on the Web but then buy the items at a store. It suggested that newspapers take...