2005-2014

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced its condolences to the family of TV sports presenter Jaafar Ali, who was gunned down on the morning of 31 May 2006 in Baghdad. He was the third journalist to be killed in Iraq in the space of 48 hours and the eleventh employee of the national TV station Al-Iraqiya to be killed since the start of the war in March 2003. Alarmed by the surge in...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has hailed a Californian appeal court's "historic" decision on 26 May 2006 that online journalists and bloggers have the same right to protect their sources as other kinds of journalists. The ruling was issued in a case between the US electronics manufacturer Apple and websites that posted confidential information about some of its products. "We have often...

(IFJ/IFEX) - May 31, 2006: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns a violent attack in which at least 25 journalists were injured by members of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) during a demonstration protesting the harassment of journalists in Kashita on May 29, 2006. "We call on BNP members to cease any further attacks on journalists and demand that those...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders is very worried about Abed Tavanchech, a blogger and student at Tehran's Amirkabir polytechnic university, who has been missing since 26 May 2006 and may well have been arrested after posting photos and reports about the demonstrations taking place at his university for the past few weeks. "Tavanchech is a courageous blogger who may well have fallen prey to...

(IPI/IFEX) - Edinburgh, 30 May 2006: At the Board Meeting of the International Press Institute, in Edinburgh, Scotland on 29 May 2006, the IPI Executive Board voted unanimously to keep Ethiopia, Nepal, Russia, Venezuela and Zimbabwe on the IPI Watch List. Speaking generally about the Watch List countries, IPI Director Johann P. Fritz said, "Nepal is the only country on the IPI Watch List where...

CLEVELAND (AP) -- Six former Knight Ridder Inc. newspapers awaited word on their fate Wednesday as McClatchy Co. collected offers on the final day of bidding for the newspapers, the last of 12 that McClatchy intends to sell. The other six newspapers have already found new owners, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, which was sold to a local investor group there, and four others that were bought...

May 31 (Bloomberg) -- Perfil SA, Argentina's second-largest media company, sued the country's government, alleging it violated press freedoms by withholding advertising from media it considers critical, company president Jorge Fontevecchia said. The lawsuit, which is the first by a media outlet against President Nestor Kirchner's government, demands the government ends its policy of...

By some reckonings, the death of two journalists working for CBS News on Monday firmly secured the Iraq war as the deadliest conflict for reporters in modern times. Since the start of the war in 2003, 71 journalists have been killed in Iraq, a figure that does not even include the more than two dozen members of news media support staff who have also died, according to the Committee to Protect...

NEW YORK, May 30 (Reuters) - The number of journalists killed in Iraq is now similar to the total who died in World War Two, underscoring the risks reporters face in informing the public about the conflict, press advocates say. The deaths of CBS News cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan on Monday increased the number of journalists deaths in Iraq to 71, as listed by the New York-based...

Tehran (AsiaNews) – A good many Iranians are not ignorant of what is going on in the world and the perception of the same of Iran. Many illegally watch international satellite TV and tune in to opposition radios, which have a network of clandestine reporters at work in Iran. However, the national media is submitted to so many restrictions and controls that its credibility is generally very limited...