2005-2014

NEW YORK: When Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. first raised the question of a job change for Gail Collins in 2001, she was afraid he was going to fire her. "I was at a party and he was there," Collins, then an Op-Ed columnist, recalled. "He whipped around and said, 'do you like your job? Would you give it up?' " The result, of course, was just the opposite. Instead of being fired, she was promoted...

July 14, 2006 | While Melanie Morgan debates with Ann Coulter about whether the executive editor of the New York Times should be killed by gas chamber or firing squad, the institutional forces behind the San Francisco radio host deserve to share in the national spotlight now focused on her. Morgan's brand of authoritarian extremism is brought to her radio listeners every day courtesy of the Disney...

(CNSNews.com) - Media rights campaigners have criticized Israel for firing missiles at a Beirut-based television station, but Israel and other critics say the broadcaster serves a function far more dangerous than disseminating news. Israeli missiles on Thursday targeted a transmission antenna of the al-Manar television network in the Lebanese capital. The station, which is run by the Shi'ite...

New York, July 14, 2006—At least 14 Salvadoran reporters and photographers were attacked or harassed during three days of violent street protests last week in the capital, San Salvador, according to interviews and research by the Committee to Protect Journalists. CPJ today condemned the assaults and urged a thorough investigation. On July 5, hundreds of students gathered at the University of El...

SEATTLE -- A journalist listed as a potential Army witness in the case of an officer refusing to go to Iraq is concerned the military is threatening free speech and free press rights as it builds its case against the soldier. Sarah Olson, a radio producer and freelance journalist in Oakland, Calif., is one of two reporters listed as potential witnesses in the government's case against 1st Lt...

The controversial Broadcast Bill, that could give sweeping powers to authorities to control media, is likely to be introduced in the coming monsoon session of Parliament with government insisting it will be "most media-friendly legislation". "When introduced in the Parliament, it will be the most media-friendly legislation in the world," Information and Broadcasting Minister PR Dasmunsi told...

NEW DELHI: You can kiss the Broadcast Services Regulation Bill 2006 - a draft of which is doing the rounds of various ministries and industry stakeholders these days - goodbye, Well, almost. "Whenever I bring a Bill to Parliament, it'd be the most media-friendly legislation in the whole world," information and broadcasting minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi today said, hinting that the draft is likely...

NEW DELHI: The broadcasting bill, which triggered angry reactions from the media industry over stringent clauses contained in the draft proposal, appears to be in a limbo now. Replying to a query on the sidelines of the cabinet briefing here on Thursday, information and broadcasting minister P R Dasmunsi said the government would consult the electronic and print media before finalising the bill...

BRUSSELS • The European Commission told Turkey yesterday it will have to rewrite its penal code again to meet EU standards after the country’s highest court confirmed a sentence against an editor for insulting “Turkishness”. EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said the High Court of Appeals ruling in the case of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish and Armenian weekly Agos...

July 13, 2006: Two local journalism professors have produced guidebooks on Canadian journalism ethics that offer some hope to scribes toiling in the trenches of big media and the audiences enduring the daily drivel they produce. Stephen Ward's The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond and Nick Russell's Morals and the Media: Ethics in Canadian Journalism (2nd edition)...