2005-2014

BAGHDAD, 9 May 2006 (IRIN) - The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said that the killing of two Iraqi media workers whose bodies were recently discovered south of Baghdad "reflects the continuing dangers for journalists working in Iraq". Laith al-Dulaimi, a reporter for the privately-owned TV station Al-Nahrain, and Muazaz Ahmed Barood, a telephone operator for the station...

During the dot-com boom, more than a few Internet start-ups planned to support free Internet services--and theoretically turn a profit--by selling online advertisements. Needless to say, for many it didn't work. Now a new group of companies, ranging from tech giants to the tiniest of Silicon Alley start-ups, are banking on ad sales to support new Net services. Microsoft, for one, is pushing full...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed concern over the validity of recent figures released by the Philippine National Police (PNP) which claim the majority of cases of media murders have been solved. According to IFJ affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), there have been 76 cases of media killings since 1986, 40 of which have occurred in...

New York, May 9, 2006 - Despite domestic and international pressure for reform, government and religious authorities in Saudi Arabia employ a wide array of behind-the-scenes controls to curtail coverage of sensitive religious and political news. Writers are routinely blacklisted, editors dismissed, and news blacked out, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in a new report. Religious...

9 May 2006 - Members of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange's (IFEX) Tunisia Monitoring Group (TMG) are deeply concerned that, despite its unrelenting attacks on press freedom, free expression and freedom of association, the Tunisian government today became a member of the newly established UN Human Rights Council. "The UN Human Rights Council may soon lose its credibility if it is...

Daily circulation of American newspapers continued to slide during the six-month period that ended in March, dropping 2.5 percent from the same period a year ago, according to figures released yesterday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Sunday circulation fared even worse, dropping 3.1 percent. The figures are comparable to the declines of the previous six-month period, which were the steepest...

NEW YORK: More than half of newspaper journalists in a recent survey believe an unethical or unprofessional incident occurred in their newsroom within the past five years, while seven out of 10 said they had been accused of bias in the past 12 months, according to a study released today by the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. But at least 70% of those polled more often...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A daily newspaper fired its courthouse reporter after he posted anonymous opinions on the public forum portion of the publication's Web site, including comments critical of his own employer, the reporter said. Justin Quinn said he was fired last month from the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, where he had worked for more than six years. He declined to discuss the content of his...

NEW YORK - Harper's, New York magazine and the New Yorker each won two National Magazine Awards Tuesday, the highest accolade in the magazine industry. Time and Rolling Stone were also two-time winners. But perhaps the biggest coup was scored by the Virginia Quarterly Review, a small-circulation literary journal that also won two awards but was nominated for six, even more than the other top...

Even as the country's daily newspapers reported a continued slide in circulation Monday, more investors placed bets that the industry had touched bottom. In the six months ended March 31, daily circulation fell an average of 2.5% from a year earlier at 700 newspapers surveyed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. That followed a 2.6% drop in the previous six months. But the stocks of major media...