2005-2014

June 22, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Human Rights Watch (HRW) today urged the Afghan government to revoke immediately a recent directive restricting the freedom of the press to report on violence and other things that might weigh on public opinion. HRW says in a statement posted on its website that the directive -- distributed by Afghanistan's intelligence agency, the National Security Directorate -- demands...

TORONTO, OTTAWA -- The federal government should automatically review any media merger that gives one company too much market share, possibly setting a threshold in the neighbourhood of 35 per cent, a Senate report says. Canada's major media companies should also regularly state who their major shareholders are, either during broadcasts or in print, as a public service, said the report released...

KARACHI: A journalist working with a private television news channel has gone missing since March while filming a military base used by US forces, his company said on Wednesday. The whereabouts of Mukesh Rupeta remained unknown since March when he was arrested by police for filming Shahbaz Air Base in southern Jacobabad, a Geo television spokesman said in a statement. “The only available report...

NEW YORK, June 22 (Reuters) - They call it the World Wide Web, but newspapers trying to grow online audiences are focusing on deeper local coverage to build revenue. The Internet gives them tools to attract new customers, which leads to a rise in advertising, said executives at the Mid-Year Media Review conference in New York this week. To do so, newspapers have had to do more than publish the...

PESHAWAR: The widow of murdered tribal journalist, Hayatullah Khan, has alleged that her husband was “trapped” by the country’s secret services. “One intelligence agent called Hayatullah to file a story and gave him the pictures of a Hellfire missile used to attack a compound in the tribal areas to expose the US atrocities against Muslims,” Mehrunisa, Hayatullah’s widow, said while talking to the...

The information and broadcasting ministry, since the beginning of this year, has cleared 13 proposals for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in media and is examining another 22 proposals. There have been eight proposals for FDI in the news and current affairs media including Mid-Day Multimedia Ltd, Business India Publications Ltd, Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd, Dhara Prakashan Pvt Ltd, Writers &...

The newspaper industry in Asia remains unaffected by the problems of a stagnating market and declining circulation that have been plaguing the newspaper industry in the West. In fact, the industry is expected to grow in the next 5-10 years, according to a just-released report by Ifra, the world's leading association for newspaper and media publishing. In most Asian countries, advertising accounts...

New York—Nearly six in 10 executives surveyed say an advertisement in a b-to-b magazine prompted them to purchase or recommend the purchase of a product or service, according to new research released Wednesday by American Business Media. ABM commissioned Harris Interactive to research how media “end-users” (readers, event attendees and online participants) use business media in their decision...

The New York Times plans to sell advertisements on the front of its Business Day section starting in two weeks, Bill Keller, the paper's executive editor, said yesterday. The ads are expected to sell at a premium rate because of the prominent showcase the front of the section affords. They will appear in a strip along the bottom of the page. The change comes as The Times, along with other...

(CJES/IFEX) - MOSCOW, June 20 (Interfax) - The Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations (CJES) and the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ) have called for a number of Criminal Code articles that carry punishment for inappropriate performance of journalistic duties to be abolished. "It is hard to find another country on the map of the world that would as frequently apply Criminal Code articles...