2005-2014

The sixth central committee meeting of the Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ) was conducted today, 1 May 2006, at the central office of the Federation in Media Village. The meeting was conducted under the leadership of President Bishnu Nisthuri. In the meeting, members discussed and made decisions about the situation of press freedom and freedom of expression; the future strategy...

(FMM/IFEX) - Free Media Movement (FMM) is shocked to report that "Uthyan", the Tamil-language daily newspaper with the largest circulation in the capital of Jaffna, was attacked by unknown gunmen, resulting in the death of two media workers on the eve of World Press Freedom Day. According to reports coming from Jaffna, five gunmen entered the main office of "Uthyan" at around 7:45 p.m. (local time...

Janne Virkkunen, the editor of Helsingin Sanomat, Finland's biggest broadsheet, said in a media seminar on Tuesday that the decision by Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen (centre) to apologise for the posting of Jyllands-Posten's Mohammed cartoons by a Finnish right-wing website as ill-advised. "The prime minister's action was simply imprudent," Mr Virkkunent said, receiving the approval of other...

LONDON, May 2 (KUNA) -- An independent report into the impartiality of the BBC's coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Tuesday found no evidence of deliberate bias. The review, covering the BBC's domestic public service output only, said "Our assessment is that, apart from individual lapses, there was little to suggest deliberate or systematic bias". "On the contrary, there was evidence of...

PRAGUE, May 2, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Vahid Pourostad, a media lawyer and member of the editorial board of the reformist "Etemad Melli" ("National Trust") newspaper, was attacked by an unknown assailant on the night of April 8. The man reportedly placed a knife on his throat and threatened to kill him. Pourostad was not hurt but his files were stolen. He revealed the details of the attack in his online...

PRAGUE, May 2, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Jamila Mujahed couldn't work under the Taliban. She had to stay home, like the majority of Afghan women. But soon after the U.S.-led military intervention there in 2001, Mujahed became the first female presenter to appear on television. In fact, she announced the fall of the Taliban regime. She is no longer alone. Activists estimate that there are about 1,000 women...

KUALA LUMPUR, May 2 (Bernama) -- Media practitioners from Arab countries welcomed the proposal to set up an international Islamic journalism centre, which they say can change the perception of the world toward Muslims and Islamic countries. The idea to establish the centre was mooted by the Information Minister Datuk Zainuddin Maidin when opening a workshop for 23 journalists from 15 Arabic...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Newspapers are battling on a number of fronts to increase ad pages and circulation, and are diligently working to come up with innovative ways to intrigue readers. But a recent promotion for Paramount's "Mission Impossible III" by the Los Angeles Times turned out to be a bit too intriguing. It seems certain newspaper buyers grew nervous when they noticed a red plastic box...

NEW YORK - Former television journalist Kevin Sites is mindful that his online dispatches from the world's war zones won't attract anywhere near the audience he's used to getting on the evening news. But that's just fine, he said. Halfway through a yearlong gig to visit nearly two dozen conflict-ridden countries for Yahoo's news Web site, Sites said he gladly trades the mass audience for the...

New York, April 28, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned that Yemeni journalists continue to be assaulted and harassed, while authorities have shown no sign that they are bringing the perpetrators to justice. Jamal Amer, editor of the weekly newspaper Al-Wasat, has been subjected to ongoing intimidation and harassment. On April 10, a known political security officer and...