2005-2014

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has called on World Trade Organisation (WTO) member states to oppose a series of restrictive measures just adopted by the Chinese government which are a complete violation of WTO principles and will jeopardise the liberalisation and development of the Chinese media. China joined the WTO in 2001. "The credibility of China's integration into the WTO requires a...

(New York, April 17, 2006) - Instead of attacking the news media for reporting allegations of criminal activity in a Colombian intelligence agency, President Álvaro Uribe should ensure a full investigation of the charges, Human Rights Watch said today. Over the last two weeks, major news media have extensively reported on allegations of paramilitary infiltration of the Colombian executive branch's...

(MRA/IFEX) - Alfred Egbegi, publisher of the weekly newspaper "Izon Link", who was arrested by the police in Yenogoa, the Bayelsa state capital in the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria on 12 April 2006, has been released from custody, but is now facing criminal charges in court. Egbegi was released on bail in the evening of 12 April, hours after his arrest and detention, but was charged by the police...

Reporters Without Borders has learned from the deputy prime minister of human rights, Abderamane Djasnabaille, that FM Liberté journalist and special envoy for the city of Mongo, Eliakim Vanambyl, for whom there was no news since 11 April 2006, has been found safe and sound. Arrested by a unit of United Front for Change (FUC) rebels when they entered the city, Vanambyl was found on 15 April at the...

Kathmandu, April 14, 06 - The Center for Human Rights and Democratic Studies (CEHURDES) - a Kathmandu-based freedom of expression monitoring group - condemns fresh arrests of journalists, lawyers, development workers and threats by the government against private media organizations in the country. On Friday, police took into custody 13 journalists in the western hilly district of Baglung as they...

NEW DELHI – For virtually everyone in TV except the celebrity news anchor, it will be a sobering thought. According to two of the most ambitious companies in India, nearly half the media industry should logically be relocated to the subcontinent. Genpact, the largest provider of offshore outsourcing services in India that is 33%-owned by General Electric Co., has allied with New Delhi Television...

No more blaming newspaper editors for burying an important article. A new generation of Web sites relies on the masses to help decide which headlines are at the top of the page. The idea is to give visitors what they want to read with better precision. Increasingly, Web sites are asking visitors to vote on individual stories or measuring online buzz around a topic, and then organizing their pages...

For years, many newspapers have been running what the industry calls wrap-arounds, full-page ads that are wrapped around the actual paper. When the wrap-around is removed, you see the real front page, with news. Last week, The Daily News in New York ran full-page ads in some copies that were, in effect, the front page. On Wednesday, it ran front and back full-page ads for Mazda and on Friday for...

NEW YORK (Adage.com) -- It's a moment that has been anticipated for a decade, but that makes it no less seminal. This is the year, according to Merrill Lynch, the Internet collects more ad dollars than magazines. Assuming the forecast is correct, magazines will become the first big medium to watch the Web pass by -- unless you count phone books, which are also projected to fall behind in 2006. Yet...

Alfred Egbegi, publisher of the weekly newspaper "Izon Link", who was arrested by the police in Yenogoa, the Bayelsa state capital in the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria on 12 April 2006, has been released from custody, but is now facing criminal charges in court. Egbegi was released on bail in the evening of 12 April, hours after his arrest and detention, but was charged by the police before a...