2005-2014

Republican lawmakers who think attacking the New York Times could help carry them to victory in 2006 might want to consider how that tactic played for the party's presidential nominee a decade ago. In the final stretch of the 1996 campaign, the former Senate majority leader, Bob Dole, unleashed an unexpectedly bitter series of assaults on the newspaper. "We're not going to let the media steal this...

BEIRUT: Rarely have Western news organisations wooed Arab hearts and minds so avidly — or with so little certainty of political or commercial reward. Freed by satellite television and the Internet from the dreary monopoly of state media, Arabs already get news in their own language from a plethora of local and foreign sources. Western media outfits, most with public funding and partly political...

NEW YORK: Four leading journalism school deans, along with Alex Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University, have penned a strong call for press freedom in the reporting of secrets that the government, and particularly the current administration, wants to keep from the public. "It is the business -- and the responsibility -- of the press to reveal secrets," they declare. It was...

CAIRO – In recent years Egypt's press has been allowed more room. A feisty independent newspaper began publishing last year and politically partisan weekly papers have launched one broadside after another against President Hosni Mubarak. But Egyptian journalists allege a government backlash is under way and they're pushing back. Sunday, at least 24 daily and weekly papers withheld publication, and...

NEW YORK: Jerry Roberts, the former editor of the Santa Barbara News-Press who resigned last week in protest of the owner's alleged meddling in news coverage, said the incident should be a warning to others who see a new wave of private buyers as the saviors for the troubled industry. "There is definitely a downside," Roberts, 57, told E&P late Sunday, just days after he quit the paper he had...

Gorakhpur, July 10 (ANI): Indian and Nepali journalists have decided to launch a joint campaign against the evil practice of women trafficking. Attending a "Media Sensitisation" workshop on the problem organised by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in Gorakhpur, the journalists accepted that the trafficking of women was a horrendous practice quite rampant in South Asia...

CHICAGO For nearly a decade, the Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP for its initials in Spanish) has been an internationally respected non-government organization (NGO) reporting to the world from Bogota about the death threats, kidnappings, assassinations and other dangers faced by Colombian journalists. Now FLIP says that it has been declared a "military target" by an apparent right-wing death...

It's no secret that free papers have been expanding exponentially across the European newspaper market for several years, already comprising close to 20% of total newspaper distribution in a number of countries and over 50% in Spain and 75% in Iceland while causing an uproar in Germany. Most recently, the success of freesheets has caused a war in London and a practice that began in America with...

The recent disclosure of a secret databank operation by the federal government that tracks terrorist financing has prompted calls to punish reporters and newspapers involved in the disclosure of a confidential anti-terrorist program. The ire comes principally from supporters of President Bush's administration, who believe the press has no business exposing sensitive information when terrorism...

On June 1, 1972, White House Counsel Charles Colson wrote a memo to President Richard Nixon's chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, saying, "I hate the (New York) Times as much as anyone else and would like to be in the first wave of Army shock troops going in during the second term to tear down the printing presses." Colson and Haldeman hated the Times because the newspaper had more credibility than...