2005-2014

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, May 26, 2006 - Police in the Gambia on Monday summoned contributors and sources for the U.S.-based Web site Freedom Newspaper ( http://www.freedomnewspaper.com). Local sources told the Committee to Protect Journalists today that at least one local journalist was detained in connection with the summonses, and that others may have been picked up by security forces. Calls by...

Experienced Asian and Pacific journalists can apply for a fellowship program focusing on population issues in the region. The program includes visits to Hawaii, India, Japan and Thailand. Application deadline: June 21. The Jefferson Fellowships, organized by the East-West Center in Honolulu, are open to both Asian and U.S. journalists. Print and broadcast journalists with at least five years of...

NEW YORK: For years it has been said that the newspaper industry is on a downturn. Publishers have always characterized it as a gentle, slow decline, a perception that allows them to take time to figure things out. But a new report from Merrill Lynch's Lauren Rich Fine -- a champion of newspapers -- reveals publishers better get on the stick, because the industry may be deteriorating faster than...

The Times announced today that it will start printing in America from next month for the first time in its history. The first United States edition of The Times will be published on Tuesday, June 6 and will be available by subscription and at more than 2,000 retail outlets across New York and New Jersey. Commenting on the launch of the US edition, Robert Thomson, Editor of The Times said: "This is...

A broad alliance between Yahoo Inc. and eBay Inc., unveiled Thursday, signals the growing fear of Google Inc. and the lengths to which onetime rivals will go to defend themselves against the fast-growing search engine juggernaut. The deal gives Yahoo and eBay extra ammunition -- namely, access to a vastly bigger audience -- that they hope will strengthen their positions in the highly competitive...

New Delhi, May 29: Wage Boards for Journalists and Non-Journalists will be constituted "very soon", Union Labour Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said today. This assurance was given by Rao to a delegation of Indian Journalists Union (IJU), which met him, to press for their demands, including the setting up of new wage boards for the newspaper industry employees. Admitting that the constitution of the...

New York, May 25, 2006–The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by attacks on the Egyptian press related to coverage of alleged election fraud and protests over judicial independence. The Egyptian state security prosecutor brought criminal charges on Wednesday against three journalists who alleged fraud in last year’s parliamentary elections. Security and police officers assaulted...

New Delhi: In a move that will strengthen the public forum Citizen Journalist, that CNN-IBN provides to the citizens of India, IDEA cellular has joined hands with the channel and will enable the masses to use their mobile platform to report news of all genres- sports, general interest and entertainment. People can now report news items of importance from various parts of the country by sending in...

NEW YORK, May 25 (Reuters) - Help-wanted ads in U.S. newspapers and on the Internet fell in April, a private research group said on Thursday. The Conference Board said its gauge measuring help-wanted ad volume in the United States was 35 in April, down from 37 in March, which was revised down from a prior estimate of 38. The index was 39 in April 2005. New online job ads fell 6 percent in April...

EBay said today that Yahoo will sell advertising on its auction site and also will use eBay's Paypal service to handle payments. The deal comes as investors are increasingly concerned that eBay's highly profitable shopping service is being undercut as consumers increasingly use search engines to find Web sites selling products they are interested in. Moreover, there is a rise in free sites that...