2005-2014

Let me come forward and speak up for The New York Times. No, I'm not saying I necessarily would have published its story on a program to track terror financing, a story that has put the paper again at the center of a furious storm. But I know from experience that it's almost impossible to put yourself into an editor's shoes, to know all the factors that went into such a decision. Sometimes...

For those who enjoy a summer blockbuster, the dust-up between the Bush Administration and The New York Times has been a real clash of the Titans, a bare-knuckle brawl between the press and the White House. We haven't seen the likes of this since Spiro Agnew labeled the press "nattering nabobs of negativism" back in the Nixon Administration. It's a controversy that defies easy answers or a safe...

The journalism watchdog group Reporters Without Borders on Friday called for the leaders of Russia and the United States to request a U.N. investigation into the killing of journalist Paul Klebnikov, The Associated Press reports. The American, who was editor of Forbes magazine’s Russian edition, was gunned down on a Moscow street on July 9, 2004. Two men were brought to trial on charges of...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, July 7, 2006 - Two years after the contract-style killing of Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov, his assassins remain at large and judicial secrecy and procedural issues have crippled his family's quest for justice. Klebnikov, a 41-year-old U.S. journalist of Russian descent, was shot outside his Moscow office on July 9, 2004, in direct retaliation for his investigative...

LONDON - The cannibalisation of print content to online is complementing rather than endangering the future of the UK press, according to a report compiled by Deloitte. The survey, which was conducted in association with the UK Association of Online Publishers (AOP), asked 30 UK publishing firms their opinion on the future of digital publishing, with 70% of those polled not perceiving online...

New York, July 7, 2006 -- The editor of an opposition daily has been jailed in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, for more than two weeks without bail. Arman Babadzhanian, editor-in-chief of Zhamanak Yerevan (Yerevan Times), faces up to five years in prison for allegedly forging documents to avoid military service, but the Committee to Protect Journalists and others are concerned that the charge was...

New York, July 7, 2006 — The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a bomb attack on the office of the Bangladeshi magazine Weekly Blitz whose editor is on trial for sedition after writing about radical Islam. Editor Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury told CPJ that two small devices exploded Wednesday outside the Weekly Blitz office in the capital, Dhaka, causing minor damage. No one was injured. He...

New York, July 7, 2006 — Two years after the contract-style killing of Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov, his assassins remain at large and judicial secrecy and procedural issues have crippled his family's quest for justice. Klebnikov, a 41-year-old U.S. journalist of Russian descent, was shot outside his Moscow office on July 9, 2004, in direct retaliation for his investigative journalism. The...

There is little doubt that there is a serious problem with the content of the print and broadcast media in India today. Apart from the fact that more and more time and space of the media is devoted to carrying commercial advertisements, much of the remaining content too has become trivial, inane, and debasing, essentially containing violence, sex and gossip meant to titillate and serve the baser...

NEW YORK: The "Sunday paper" remains very popular but a recent poll for Parade magazine turned up some of the obstacles cutting into circulation lately. Almost one in three Americans said they had not read the Sunday newspaper in the past six months. When asked why, the following reasons topped the list: 15% said they don’t have the time; 14% can’t get home delivery; 11% get their news from...