2005-2014

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) today condemns the order banning Journalist Abdikarin Omar Moallin of Radio Banadir in Jowhar district of Middle Shabelle region to do his journalism work. The interim administration of Middle Shabelle region informed this morning the order banning him to work as stringer for Radio Banadir in the region. The reason behind the ban is a report he made...

The latest readership polls have been reported in Spain, with the free paper 20 Minutos coming out on top. The sports paper Marca had been first on the list, but even in this World Cup year it has lost an astonishing 104,000 readers. 20 Minutos, published by the Norwegian group Schibsted, was the only free paper to gain readers (41,000 since the last count in December). Two other popular free...

The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by the detention of a critical journalist in Azerbaijan on what local press freedom activists and opposition journalists call trumped up drug charges. Sakit Zakhidov, a prominent reporter and satirist for the Baku-based daily opposition newspaper Azadlyg, has been held since June 23. Azadlyg editor-in-chief, Qanimat Zakhidov, and other opposition...

New York, July 12, 2006— The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply troubled by Egypt’s newly amended press law that fails to honor a promise by President Hosni Mubarak to abolish prison for press offenses. The law also sharply increases fines for defamation. The amendments lift some minor restrictions on the media but still mandate prison sentences for journalists convicted of insulting the...

An Armenian appeals court upheld on Wednesday the controversial pre-trial detention of the editor of an independent newspaper critical of the government who is facing up to five years in prison for alleged draft evasion. The panel of three judges rejected a petition to overturn a lower court ruling that allowed state prosecutors to keep Arman Babajanian of the “Zhamanak Yerevan” newspaper under a...

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Now that Wendy McCaw has driven away most of the editors from the newspaper she owns, the Santa Barbara News-Press, a lot of people in journalism are beginning to question what had become accepted wisdom in the past year or so - that independent, local ownership is the salvation of the ailing newspaper industry. This is a discussion of interest to more than just media junkies...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Financial Times is cutting about 50 editorial staff, or 10 percent of the total, by merging its print and online news desks and streamlining its production set-up, the newspaper said on Tuesday. The paper has launched a voluntary redundancy programme and said it would enter a 30-day consultation with the National Union of Journalists "to keep redundancies to a minimum." The...

NEW DELHI, JULY 11: The government is likely to re-visit some of the contentious clauses of the proposed broadcast bill and is keen to take the media industry into confidence before getting on with the process of formulating laws for governing them. The ministry of information and broadcasting (I&B) secretary met the management of some of the leading private television channels and print...

The representatives of some of the country’s top media houses today urged the government to withdraw the restrictions on cross-media holdings and preferential carriage for Prasar Bharti from the draft broadcast Bill. The group, under the aegis of Indian Media Group, also protested the media policing provisions, calling them “stringent”, and suggested that all news media be brought under the Press...

SANAA, Yemen, July 12 (UPI) -- A Yemeni court ordered the suspension of the editor in chief of an opposition magazine from work for six months in a new crackdown on unruly journalists. In addition to being barred from work in the Wahdawi magazine, mouthpiece of the Unionist Nasserite Popular Party, Ali Sakkaf was ordered by the court Wednesday to pay a fine of half a million Yemeni royals ($2,000)...