2005-2014

New York, June 27, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about Israeli government restrictions on journalists attempting to report from the Gaza Strip. The Israel Defense Forces announced on Monday that Israeli passport holders and dual nationals would be prohibited from entering Gaza. “Due to the current security assessments journalists with Israeli citizenship or those...

The media boom has led to mushrooming of educational institutes that promise to cater to the 'rising demand for journalists'. At a time when DU cut-offs are high, students are leaving no stone unturned to get a mass communication or journalism course for an edge over others. Even as the question of market-driven need giving rise to media institutes is being debated there seems to be a herd...

NEW YORK: A new report from EPS Market Inelligence and Advisory Service that examined national newspaper markets in the U.S. and U.K. says that in order to remain competitive, newspapers need "an appreciation of the capabilities and potential of an interactive medium, and an understanding of how news can fit into the broader trends sweeping the web." The executive summary of the report highlighted...

Robbers made off with tens of thousands of rands in cash during a daring daylight cash-in-transit heist at a Pretoria newspaper office. The four men, armed with assault rifles and handguns, attacked a Coin security guard as he was walking out of the second floor Arcadia Street office of Rapport in Hatfield at lunchtime on Monday. They grabbed the guard, forced him into a lift at gunpoint, and...

Police forces of Puntland Regional State of Somalia, which controls the northeast regions of Somalia, yesterday arrested online journalist Hussein Yasin Godegode in Galka'yo town of Mudug region. Mr. Hussein works for a website called Idamaale.com, which features news and comments across Somalia. The reason of this arrest reportedly came out after the journalist wrote critical reports on Mudug...

BUJUMBURA, June 27, 2006 (AFP) - The United Nations said Tuesday it was angered by the continued detentions of a Burundian journalist and a peace activist who it said were being held in violation of their rights. The UN Operation in Burundi (ONUB) said the detention of the two men, both of whom were arrested last month for allegedly threatening state security, "was contrary to Burundi's legal...

The government's expenses on advertising have dropped from over 14.5 million euros in 2004 to three million euros in 2005, following the civil society's calls for transparency and equitable political publicity, according to a report by the Center for Independent Journalism titled "Political advertising - a year of transparency." According to the CJI report, in 2004 the civil society and daily...

BEIJING, June 26 — Chinese media outlets will be fined if they report on "sudden events" without prior authorization from government officials, under a draft law being considered by the Communist Party-controlled legislature. The law would give government officials a powerful new tool to restrict coverage of mass outbreaks of disease, riots, strikes, accidents and other events that the authorities...

MANILA - The biting tongues of Filipino broadcast commentators deliver some of the unkindest cuts for corrupt politicos, local warlords, police officials and soldiers. Nearly everyone in the Philippines listens to talk radio, and broadcast journalists are dying for speaking their minds. The immense popularity of on-air yakking explains why broadcast criticism of foul deeds is one of the country's...

Every passing week, it becomes more apparent that disgruntled leftists in the intelligence community and antiwar crusaders in the mainstream media, annealed in their disdain for the Bush administration, are undermining our ability to win the War on Terror. Their latest body blow to the war effort is the exposure, principally by the New York Times, of the Treasury Department’s top-secret program to...