2005-2014

A Chinese journalist found guilty of extortion after writing articles about official corruption was sentenced Thursday to one year in prison, his wife and lawyer said. Yang Xiaoqing, a reporter for the state-run China Industrial Economy News, was sentenced at the Longhui No. 1 People’s Court in Hunan province, his lawyer, Zhang Xingshui said. Yang’s wife, Gong Jie, said she would appeal the...

If you thought the US media's credibility has been on the decline, you would have had a good reason to believe that. But wait, here's more food for your thought – almost 50 per cent of senior marketing executives have reported paying for an editorial or broadcast placement – and almost half of those who haven't said they would. CONTENTIOUS: According to the PRWeek survey, 24 per cent of senior...

Journalists from all over the world Thursday joined journalists in Iraq in their appeal for action to curb the violence against media staff which has claimed at least 130 lives in just three years. A statement from a global Committee for the Defence of Journalists in Iraq also highlighted a worldwide humanitarian appeal to help the media victims of violence. THEIR PHOTOGRAPHS: An Iraqi journalist...

Sun editor Rebekah Wade, Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow and Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman all did, but Today presenter John Humphrys, News of the World editor Andy Coulson and BBC Ten O'Clock News presenter Fiona Bruce did not. More than half of Britain's top 100 journalists were educated at private schools, a proportion that has increased over the past two decades, according to research. The figures...

SEVERAL Australian newspapers are gearing up to follow the lead of British counterparts in putting exclusive breaking news online before it appears in print and devoting more newsroom resources to the internet. This week Fleet Street fired the first shots in a revolution that will fundamentally change the way newspapers operate and could even hasten the end of the newsprint era. On Monday, The...

ONLINE'S SHARE OF U.S. MEASURED media spending is poised to grow to 12 percent in 2006--up from just 10 percent a year ago, projects Madison Avenue's leading source for ad tracking data. TNS Media Intelligence, which Tuesday released a mid-year update of its annual advertising outlook, revised spending estimates for most media downward, but nudged the Internet's ad outlook up considerably from...

It prides itself on being France's mouthpiece of the free-thinking left, an irreverent daily founded in the wake of the 1968 student revolt by Maoist luminaries and Jean-Paul Sartre. But the French newspaper Libération plunged into its own existential crisis yesterday after the editor was asked to leave, and the paper which once boasted that it cared nothing about money found its future on the...

New York, June 14, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release today of Mohamed Benchicou, publisher of a newspaper critical of the Algerian government, who was jailed two years ago for allegedly violating currency regulations. “We are relieved that our colleague Mohamed Benchicou is once again a free man, but his release doesn’t alter the fact that he spent two years in prison...

Yahoo News, one of the world’s most popular news aggregation sites, plans to launch a citizen video-journalist news service at the end of June that will act as a collection and publication site for news videos generated by the public. Sources involved in discussions with Yahoo News said the project, which has been in development for months, will introduce an upload capability that will take the PC...

A journalist was ambushed and stoned by attackers who left him fatally injured in the rural area of Takalghat near Nagpur in Maharashtra state, central India, on 8 June 2006. Aran Narayan Dekate died in hospital two days later. Fellow journalists in Nagpur told Reporters Without Borders that his death was very likely to be linked to articles he wrote in the Marathi-language regional daily Tarun...