2005-2014

Dubai, Asharq Al-Awsat-- Arab satellite TV viewers have undoubtedly noticed the increasing airtime accorded to economic affairs and the latest information on the stock market. While in the past, business matters were presented in a short summary included in the main news bulletin, today however they enjoy special lengthy coverage in business-only channels. This change in the Arab media is expected...

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a public interest litigation challenging the nomination of Shobhana Bhartia, Vice-chairperson of HT Media Ltd, and Chandan Mitra, Editor, Pioneer, as members of the Rajya Sabha. The petitioner, the Centre for Public Interest Litigation, had challenged their nomination to the Upper House on the ground that they did not fall under the four categories, literature...

Jaipur, April. 29 (PTI): The confederation of newspapers and news agency organisations, an umbrella organisation of apex media trade unions, today threatened a countrywide agitation, including an indefinite strike, if the Central Government does not set up new wage boards for journalists and non-journalists at the earliest. Addressing a two-day annual general meeting of the confederation here, its...

Independent media in the countries of the former Soviet Union have come under further assault over the course of the last year, Freedom House said in its annual report. The political, legal, and economic environments in most of the non-Baltic former Soviet countries remain distinctly inhospitable to independent journalism, Christopher Walker, the organization’s director of studies, wrote in an...

Even if you're reading All the News That's Fit to Print on an ultra-mobile computer, it may soon look and feel the same way it does spread out with your morning coffee – minus the ink-stained fingers, perhaps. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, appearing at the American Society of Newspaper Editors conference in Seattle, showed off a new feature of Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Vista operating...

LONDON: Videos shot in smoke-filled, bombed-out London underground trains, photos of body-strewn roads – the July 7 bombings on London’s transport system brought the arrival of a new advance guard of amateur reporters to Britain. Media commentators described it as a sea-change in journalism as mobile phone photographers, text messagers and bloggers dominated initial coverage of the bombings that...

The rapid evolution of the Media is changing the everyday life of consumers the world over, with its significance more evidenced in fast-growing nations like India. According to the latest Decision-Makers Survey 5 (DMS 5) conducted by ACNielsen ORG-MARG, the Media in India is gathering pace rapidly and is gaining progressive importance among key decision-makers. With print media competing neck-to...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- Reporters Without Borders condemned Friday the beating of Kenzhegali Aytbakiyev, a Khazak journalist, of the opposition weekly Ayna-Plus on 23 April. Aytbakiyev told the Paris-based media watchdog group that he lost consciousness for about three hours after being pushed to the ground and repeatedly kicked by a group of about 10 people. After coming round, he managed to...

PRAGUE, April 28, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Rachel Denber, deputy director of the Europe and Central Asia division for Human Rights Watch, says a significant number of the human-rights violations her organization has recorded are made against journalists. "We get many examples of journalists being harassed in Central Asia in a variety of ways, either through criminal or civil penalties, libel penalties...

PRAGUE, April 28, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- "Today, there is such a situation that the [Uzbek] government has put all of the media under its control. After the events in Andijon, the authorities understood that the independent press is, one could say, their main enemy," says Galima Bukharbaeva, an Uzbek journalist who fled the country because of her independent reporting after the May 2005 violence in...