2005-2014

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google Inc. first gained notice early in the decade, as a small and quirky start-up with a disarmingly simple Internet search engine and an idealistic slogan, ``Don't Be Evil." Today the maverick company, adored by online shoppers and Internet surfers, has emerged as one of the most disruptive forces in the business world. Its secret sauce: a technology that lets business...

TOLEDO, Ohio -- A newspaper fired a reporter who wrote an anonymous letter to the Pulitzer Prize board critical of the newspaper's entry for its work in uncovering the state's coin investment scandal. George Tanber, a reporter for The Blade for 14 years, was fired Thursday for "displaying a pattern of conduct which was dishonest, inappropriate, or both," the newspaper reported in Sunday's editions...

EDINBURGH (AFP) - Global press chiefs gathered to thrash out how best to wrestle with the rise of the Internet, stay on top of technology, and beat countless bloggers and citizen journalists to the story. Media professionals, huddled in the Scottish capital for the International Press Institute's World Congress, debated the long-term challenges and opportunities that the new media age would throw...

The newspaper of Tuanjie, which means unity, celebrated its 50th anniversary on Friday. It was founded by China's non-communist party the Revolutionary Committee of Chinese Kuomintang. First published in 1956, the Tuanjie newspaper was shut down during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). It resumed publishing in 1980 and is sold overseas. The paper, which later developed into the voice of non...

Jim McClatchy bore many titles during his six-decade career: pilot, Army officer, business manager, publisher, philanthropist, chairman of the board. But in a conversation not long before his death, he made a succinct request as to how he wanted to be remembered: "Put down that I was a newspaperman." He was that. James Briggs McClatchy, senior member of one of California's pioneering newspaper...

(RSF/IFEX) - Palestinian journalist Awad Rajoub, a reporter for the Arabic-language website of the satellite TV station Al Jazeera, was freed on 24 May 2006 after being held by the Israeli authorities for six months. He was arrested on 30 November 2005 at his home in Doura, 10 km outside the West Bank city of Hebron, and accused by the Israeli military of "threatening state security." The Al...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has written to Polish justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro to alert him to serious threats being made against Polish journalists by Redwatch, an extreme right-wing group that advocates violence. Redwatch-Poland ( http://www.redwatch.info/sites/redwatch.htm ) has posted a list of 15 left-wing and far-left journalists and directly threatened them with reprisals for...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the arrests of two bloggers, Mohammed Sharkawy and Karim El-Shaer, during a demonstration at the Press Syndicate in Cairo on 25 May 2006, and the behaviour of the police in using violence to disperse protestors, and attacking "Los Angeles Times" correspondent Hossam El-Hamalwy as he was trying to cover the event. "The eye-witness accounts we...

(IAPA/IFEX) - Miami (May 26, 2006) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today voiced its concern over the possible introduction of legislation in the US Congress that would punish the disclosure of classified information generally. At the same time, it endorsed views expressed by two national newspaper organizations whose arguments were prepared for a legislative public hearing to take...

(FXI/IFEX) - The FXI is deeply disturbed about recent reports regarding the SABC's decision not to [broadcast] a documentary on South African President Thabo Mbeki scheduled for Wednesday of last week. Apparently the documentary takes a critical look at the President's governance style, including what many commentators have referred to as a growing centralisation of government. Several newspaper...