2005-2014

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - It seems that Editor & Publisher has a problem with the media. It's nothing less than deliciously ironic when a publication which has been reporting on the press for more than a century is displeased about the way that IT, in turn, is being covered. Specifically, E&P's editors are disappointed that their magazine isn't getting more attention. E&P Editor Greg Mitchell...

Ladies and gentlemen: In the presence of representatives from the world media gathered here, let me begin by thanking the World Association of Newspapers for giving me the Golden Pen Award. I am humbled by the honor. I think the prize should in fact go to all Iranian dissidents and freedom-fighters. And in this category, more than anyone the prize should go to those who fought for freedom and...

LONDON: Like other globetrotting executives, Tom Glocer travels with multiple cellphones, a laptop and a BlackBerry. But when he lands in Tokyo, he has an additional request - a phone running on the Japanese i-mode system, delivered in his chauffeured car, so he can check out the latest mobile services during the hour-and-a- half drive into town. "Unless you play with the technology of an era, you...

CAIRO, June 3 (KUNA) -- The Arab Journalists Union has classified Kuwait first in freedom of journalism followed by Jordan, Egypt and Qatar. The report was announced by the President of the union, Ibrahim Nafi', who said that the report has been issued after evaluation was done by foreign agencies over press freedoms in the Arab countries. Nafi' said that this report is only a start, expressing...

WASHINGTON - Wen Ho Lee, the former nuclear weapons scientist once suspected of being a spy, settled his privacy lawsuit Friday and will receive $1.6 million from the government and five news organizations in a case that turned into a fight over reporters' confidential sources. Lee will receive $895,000 from the government for legal fees and associated taxes in the 6 1/2-year-old lawsuit in which...

THE INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING BUREAU IS again considering launching a lobbying and/or advertising campaign on behalf of cookies, OnlineMediaDaily has learned. New research commissioned by the IAB and presented at its board meeting this week shows that as many as 12 percent of consumers don't accept third-party cookies--that is, the cookies set by ad servers and analytics companies that track the Web...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned over continuing violence against journalists in Bangladesh, after eight journalists were injured during a demonstration on May 31. The journalists were protesting attacks on the newspaper, Dainik Andolaner Bazar, by members of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on May 30, which forced the newspaper to suspend publication....

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the release, on health grounds, of cyber-dissident and human rights activist Guo Qizhen, who was arrested at his home on 12 May 2006 and whose health, according to his lawyer, is worrying. The press freedom organisation also condemns the harassment of two other cyber-dissidents, Liu Shui and Xiong Zhongjun, who were forced by the police to leave the city...

Meeting at its Annual General Assembly on 29 May 2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the IPI membership adopted a resolution recognizing that the International Press Institute (IPI), as the co-founder of the International News Safety Institute (INSI), is appalled by the number of journalists killed throughout the world while carrying out their job. The IPI membership considers that it is the job of...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, June 2, 2006 - An Iraqi cameraman for Reuters news agency was released Thursday after being held for 12 days by the U.S. military. Ali al-Mashhadani, 37, was arrested at a U.S. base in his home town of Ramadi on May 20 while trying to recover Reuters cell phones confiscated from him a week earlier, Reuters reported. It said U.S. officials deemed the cameraman a security...