2005-2014

The deaths of two CBS crew members in Iraq and the wounding of a veteran correspondent have dealt yet another deadly blow to news organizations determined to cover a conflict increasingly perilous to journalists. For months, the killings and kidnappings of news professionals in Iraq have prompted a reappraisal of the need for large staffs there. While no major news organizations say they are...

MOSCOW // When Russia's president hailed his country's record on press freedom this week, he omitted the newest, significant exception to the rights of the press: Journalistic freedom here apparently no longer extends to calling President Vladimir V. Putin unflattering names. The evidence includes prosecutors last month charging the editor of an online newspaper with the criminal offense of...

Two Azeri newspapers have published cartoons of Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini and the country's supreme clerical leader Ali Khamnei, in a move which drew fire from Iran. The move came amid a series of mass protests by ethnic Azeris throughout the neighboring country triggered by a publication of an insulting cartoon by state-owned newspaper Iran. The Caucasus Clerical Office...

Digital media giant Microsoft has designs on offline media, and is readying a system that would extend its online search advertising model to other outlets, Joanne Bradford, Microsoft's chief media revenue officer, revealed Wednesday during an American Business Media conference in New York. Like arch-rival Google, MSN hopes to extend its paid search platform, adCenter, to a wide variety of outlets...

The head of the Russian Agency for Press and Mass Communications has said that the major state companies would dispose of their media assets in the near future. In his Thursday interview with the Echo Moskvy radio Mikhail Seslavinskiy said that “these organizations should not keep their media assets� and should part with them at a good price.” “We realize that the sale should go ahead soon, but it...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, June 7, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the prison sentence handed down to a Syrian online journalist by a military court for articles advocating rights for Syria's Kurdish minority, and criticizing the ruling Baath Party. Muhammad Ghanem, editor of the news Web site Surion, was found guilty Tuesday of insulting the president, undermining...

The Guardian will become the first British national newspaper to offer a "web first" service that will see major news by foreign correspondents and business journalists put online before it appears in the paper. The shift in strategy marks a significant departure from the established routine of newspaper publishing where stories are held for "once-a-day" publishing. The move aims to strengthen and...

New York, June 7, 2006— The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by the ongoing criminal prosecution of journalists in Turkey. Three journalists are before the courts in Istanbul this week for their work. Perihan Magden, a columnist for the weekly magazine Yeni Aktuel, went on trial today charged with discouraging Turks from performing military service by defending conscientious objectors...

WASHINGTON, June 7, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Companies such as Yahoo! and Google are well known for quickly putting vast amounts of information at the fingertips of computer users. But these two Internet companies, along with the computer software giant Microsoft, have faced sharp criticism for compromising with Beijing by accepting restrictions on what information they can provide to users in China. To...

Police yesterday raided the New Times office in Kampala looking for information pertaining the publication of the scanned copies of passports belonging to Ignace Murwanashyaka and other Rwandan dissidents. The two senior investigative officers, Moses Sakira and Moses Binoga from Criminal investigations department arrived at The New Times office seeking information on how the publication obtained...