2005-2014

Abuja, Nigeria, 06/20 - The Nigerian Navy Sunday confirmed the release of an American journalist, who was arrested by naval personnel Friday for photographing an oil platform in Nigeria`s oil-producing Niger Delta region without permission. Though Nigerian Navy spokesman, Capt. Obi Medani, said the journalist, whom he did not identify by name, works for Reuters news agency, other reports...

The Information and and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B Ministry) has issued 150 show cause notices in the last two years to different television channels for violation of programme and advertising codes. Of these, six television channels, NDTV India, Sahara One, Star One, Fashion TV, India TV and Cine World, have been warned by the ministry mostly. The ministry has issued a warning to these channels...

The online offensive of US newspapers to attract younger audiences may not be working after all – the average visitor to newspaper websites, in fact, has grown progressively older in the last five years. The median age of total visitors to newspaper websites, a survey has found, in 2005 was around 42 years. OLD FUSION: August Woerner, an 80-year-old World War II veteran spend lots of time on the...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned a 13,500-euro sentence against blogger Roberto Mancini in fines, damages and costs imposed by a court in Val d'Aosta, in northern Italy on 26 May 2006, after local journalists brought forward a defamation suit. Mancini, 59, is suspected of creating a US-hosted blog in 2005 - Il Bolscevicostanco ( http://www.ilbolscevicostanco.blogspot.com )...

More than two-thirds of the newspaper companies worldwide expect to remain a predominantly newspaper publisher in the near future, according to a just released report by Ifra, the world's leading association for newspaper and media publishing. HERE AND NOW: The three-year "Where News?" project is being funded with more than a million Euro, signalling how serious the association's more than 3000...

AFTER a decade of denial, big media and marketers have finally accepted that the way consumers absorb information and entertainment has changed. Their responses to how consumers perceive, retain and respond to brands are reshaping media. Companies that once relied on regulation or engineering smarts for their edge are learning the ways of integrated marketing across many platforms. From iPod to...

New York, June 20, 2006—Members of the board of the press freedom advocacy organization the Committee to Protect Journalists elected Joel Simon executive director today. CPJ Chairman Paul Steiger said Simon will bring “energy, intelligence and experience to CPJ and journalists around the world at this critical time for press freedom.” Simon worked as a journalist in California and Latin America...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. newspaper publishers on Tuesday said growth at their Internet divisions would at last become a key contributor to revenue, helping to fill a profit shortfall at their traditional print operations. Many publishers began experimenting with the Internet in the 1990s when readers started moving online to get their news. Though those operations have grown quickly, they still...

Last month, Bennett Haselton, the founder of Peacefire.org, a Web site that promotes open access on the Internet, got an e-mail message from a Los Angeles Times reporter who was writing an article about online censorship. The reporter was unable, from The Times's newsroom, to access Mr. Haselton's site, which also offers instructions on how to get around software installed to block Web site access...

Eleven years ago, after working only a few months as the Boston Globe ombudsman, I attended my First news ombudsmen convention in Fort Worth, Texas. While I was still relatively bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, I did notice that several of my colleagues who had spent years in ombudsmanship had something of a worn, world-weary look about them. One of them pulled me aside, and, noticing my rookie...