2005-2014

The family of a British cameraman shot dead by an Israeli soldier claimed yesterday that both the Foreign Office and the Israeli authorities had obstructed their search for justice. James Miller, 34, was killed by a single shot while making a documentary in the Gaza strip about Palestinian children. At an inquest opening yesterday in London, TV producer Daniel Edge told how he was with Mr Miller...

As a controversy rages over the acquittal of all five accused in the murder case of cartoonist Irfan Hussain, the prosecuting agency has concluded that it would be 'futile' to appeal against the trial court verdict. Highlighting the 'missing links' and the incidents of key witnesses turning hostile in the case, Y P S Ahaluwalia, the chief public prosecutor in the Karkardooma Court, in his report...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The widely hyped merging of the PC and TV is finally taking shape in a way that only a few people imagined in the late 1990s Internet boom. From independent producers like Mondo Media to big media companies like MTV, and even kids who post videos on community sites like YouTube.com, the World Wide Web is becoming a sort of worldwide TV network for audiences seeking offbeat...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. media industry's top regulator said on Tuesday that newspapers were failing to lend their voices to his drive to relax a decades-old rule barring them from owning broadcast outlets in the same market. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin promised to initiate the process of modifying the so-called cross-ownership rule, but blamed newspaper executives...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger said on Tuesday it would deny accreditation to foreign journalists who reported alleged food shortages in the central African state after criticising three BBC journalists for their "negative" coverage. The BBC said on Monday a team of its journalists had their permission to work withdrawn by the government in Niamey after finding evidence of food shortages in the Maradi...

CHICAGO -- Richard N. Winfield has been elected chairman of the World Press Freedom Committee. Winfield succeeds James H. Ottaway Jr., who was chairman for 10 years. The group, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., advocates against international restrictions on the press. Winfield was elected Sunday at the group's biennial meeting in Chicago. Winfield served as general counsel for...

COPENHAGEN, April 4 (Reuters) - A Denmark-based Kurdish television station denied on Tuesday Turkish accusations it was stoking street violence in the southeast of the country and said it sought only to give voice to people Ankara refused to heed. Roj TV head Manouchehr Tahsili Zonoozi said he planned to set up a 24-hour Kurdish language news station -- a proposal likely to further anger Ankara...

CHICAGO – Newspapers' online audiences are growing rapidly, according to a new industry study, highlighting a key growth area that newspapers are seeking to exploit as print circulation continues to be challenged. A study being released Monday by the Newspaper Association of America, a trade group, found that one in three Internet users – 55 million – visit a newspaper Web site every month. Also...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are introducing major revisions to their Web sites, introducing elements like new ad units for marketers and news aggregators for readers. Their moves aren’t just part of the Unofficial Publishers’ Mandate of 2006, under which both newspaper and magazine executives are pouring resources into really, truly making the most out of...

New York, April 3, 2006 - Moscow police have arrested journalist Boris Stomakhin after he failed to appear for a June 2004 trial on criminal charges of inciting inter-ethnic hatred in news reports about the war in Chechnya. Stomakhin edits the independent Moscow monthly newspaper Radikalnaya Politika (Radical Politics) and contributes to the pro-independence Chechnya news Web site Kavkaz-Center...