2005-2014

In the violence that has swept the country more than three years after the US-led invasion, journalists in Iraq have become targets of violence. This climate of fear has forced Iraqi journalists to lead double lives. Most of the journalists here do not tell their relatives or friends what they do. Some even write in daily newspapers without by-lines. Others use pseudonyms to avoid angry readers...

VALENTON, France: Moments after the blast that nearly took her life in Beirut in September, May Chidiac found herself on the back seat of her smoking, mangled car. "At first, I didn't know about my leg," she said, recounting how paramedics in an ambulance quickly arrived to pull her out. "I saw my hand cut, it was still hanging by a small piece of flesh, but I didn't know that it was damaged a lot...

ROME - The editor of an Italian monthly has apologized for any offense to Muslims over a humorous caption for a drawing showing the Prophet Muhammad in hell, Italian news reports said Sunday. Italian news agencies on Sunday quoted the journal‘s editor, Cesare Cavalleri, as "apologizing, as a Christian," for any offense. Milan daily Corriere della Sera said that the journal had run a humorous...

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Publisher McClatchy Co. is in advanced talks with privately-held MediaNews Group Inc. over four newspapers McClatchy plans to sell as part of its buyout of Knight Ridder Inc., according to sources close to the sale process. MediaNews is the lead candidate to buy the San Jose Mercury News, the Contra Costa Times and The Monterey County Herald in Northern California, and is...

Ft. LAUDERDALE-- On Monday, right at 3:00 p.m., EST, winners of the 90th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music will be announced at Columbia University. Given that this award is American journalism's most coveted prize, it will be a day etched into the minds of the winners forever. So when asked where they were when word first reached their ears that they had won a...

Maputo, Mozambique, 04/15 - The Maputo City Court has sentenced Osvaldo Tembe, a former Mozambican journalist with the weekly "Zambeze" newspaper, to eight months in jail for blackmail and extortion. National news agency, AIM reported Friday that Tembe was expelled from Zambeze in mid-March, after the paper`s management accused him of receiving money in exchange for suppressing a story. Tembe...

NEW YORK, April 15 (Reuters) - New York Times Co. (NYT.N: Quote, Profile, Research), McClatchy Co. (MNI.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Tribune Co. (TRB.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday posted sharply lower quarterly earnings on high newsprint costs and depressed advertising sales. The results from the three large publishers underscored the troubles faced by the industry, including...

I was unceremoniously fired this month by my Saudi newspaper, a leading English-language daily called Arab News. It didn't matter that I had been the senior columnist on the op-ed page for nine years or that my work was quoted widely in the European and American media, including this paper. What mattered was that I had committed one of the three cardinal sins an Arab journalist must avoid when...

BAGHDAD, April 14 -- An unarmed Iraqi journalist was among those killed during a controversial military raid late last month in northern Baghdad, according to interviews with his editors, a reporter who was with him when he died and other witnesses. Kamal Manahi Anbar, 28, was enrolled in a training program of the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting, which runs courses for local...

HANOI: Bold headlines and mugshots of a cabinet minister quitting in a corruption scandal, readers criticising leaders and a government refusal to release a "cyber-dissident". The different faces of Vietnam's changing state-controlled media have been on view in the weeks before the ruling Communist Party National Congress, which opens on April 18. "I think there are no limitations on our coverage...