2005-2014

The British Council is launching a media guide to the Muslim community next week, to be used as a reference source and training tool for young journalists. Put together by writer Ehsan Masood, British Muslims: Media Guide is being will be published by Counterpoint, the British Council's think-tank on cultural relations. It will aim to address issues such as: how British Muslims feel they are...

Journalists and private detectives who buy and sell personal information should be sent to prison for up to two years, the information commissioner Richard Thomas said today. Mr Thomas was presenting a report to parliament reflecting his concern that confidential information can too easily be obtained from public and private organisations, particularly by newspaper reporters. The report - called...

A man believed to be a top al Qaeda militant who escaped from a US airbase in Afghanistan urged Muslims in an internet video to launch attacks in Europe as revenge for cartoons that lampooned the Prophet Mohammad. A website often used by militants posted a video from a man identified as Abu Yahya al-Libi in which he called for Muslims to "send rivers of blood" down the streets of Denmark, Norway...

If you work in the advertising industry, you may have come across the word concept used as a verb, as in, "He's the only creative person I ever met that had his ideas concepted, shot and edited the moment he presented it to you," from a recent issue of Adweek. If you're not in advertising–and even if you are–you may find this usage extremely unpleasant. Copywriter Ray Del Salvio is fond of it...

BERLIN, May 12 (UPI) -- Germany's Federal Intelligence Service has spied on the professional and private lives of numerous journalists, according to a report. A classified report delivered to a parliamentary commission overseeing the intelligence services, or BND, proves the agency also contacted journalists to inform them about their colleagues' work, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper said...

NEW YORK: A.M. Rosenthal, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent who became the executive editor of The New York Times and led the paper's global news operations through 17 years of record growth, modernization and major journalistic change, died Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 84. His death, at Mount Sinai Medical Center, came after he had suffered a stroke two weeks ago, his son Andrew...

(IPYS/IFEX) - In 2005, IPYS documented 121 freedom of expression violations, affecting 164 victims. Although the number of incidents diminished by 14.18% compared to 2004, the number of individuals effected increased by 7.93%. This demonstrates that the repressive actions against the press in 2005 had a greater impact and reach. These facts are all detailed in the book "Venezuela: Freedom of...

(AJI/IFEX) - Three days before the commemoration of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, which is celebrated by journalists around the world, a local tabloid journalist in East Java was murdered. Herliyanto, 38, was found dead on 29 April 2006 in the forest near Tarokan, a village near the town of Banyuanyar, Probolinggo District, in East Java province. Police believe the cause of the death was...

(PROBIDAD/IFEX) - Octavio Carvajal, journalist and host of two programmes on the Tegucigalpa-based radio station STC Noticias, has reported to the Public Prosecutor's Office a physical attack that he suffered at the hands of Marcelo Chimirri, vice-director of the state telephone company Hondutel. The journalist also announced his intention to leave the country temporarily on 11 May 2006 for fear...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders "firmly condemns" the physical mistreatment, including beatings and sexual abuse, which three foreign women photographers received from Mexico City police when they were arrested during a heavy-handed raid on a peace march in the suburb of San Salvador Atenco on 4 May 2006. The victims were María Sostres, a Spanish photographer, Samantha Dietmar, a German...