2005-2014

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- A group of 27 Danish Muslim organizations have filed a defamation lawsuit against the newspaper that first published the contentious Prophet Muhammed cartoons, their lawyer said Thursday. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday, two weeks after Denmark's top prosecutor declined to press criminal charges, saying the drawings that sparked a firestorm in the Muslim world did not...

A political cartoon in Pakistan which satirises the relationship between President Musharraf and President Bush has been proving very popular. The "Bush and Mush Show" is a spoof of the news conference held during the recent visit of the US president and it is getting a lot of play. The punch line? Bush casually dismisses concerns over Mush's democratic credentials, in Pakistani street lingo. The...

Reporters Without Borders expressed dismay at the closure of Radio Raghav FM Mansoorpur 1 under the Indian Telegraphs Act after the station, which its founder said he launched for less than a dollar, garnered international plaudits. The radio, in Mansoorpur in Bihar state in the north-east, was set up without a licence by 22-year-old Raghav Mahto, an electronic equipment repairman. It broadcast...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dow Jones and Co. Inc. (DJ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to "retool" its Wall Street Journal Asian and European newspaper editions after reader complaints about their new tabloid formats, Chief Executive Officer Richard Zannino said on Wednesday. Zannino, speaking at the Bank of America Media Telecommunications and Entertainment conference, said some readers feel "there...

A court in the Georgian capital Tbilisi has sentenced a founder and a director of the independent television channel "202" to jail terms for blackmail. The two men were found guilty of demanding money from a member of parliament in exchange for not showing film footage potentially hazardous for his reputation. Russia’s RIA-Novosti news agency reported that Shalva Ramishvili and David Kokhreidze...

WASHINGTON: Television journalists and producers from independent Arab television news stations will be able to obtain financial support for their research and productions this year, according to a press release issued last week by the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX). "Up to 10 television journalists and producers from Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman...

Banjul - Police in Gambia on Tuesday arrested the editor and the general manager of a privately-owned weekly magazine, The Independent, and closed the paper's offices, according to the country's press union. Demba Ali Jawo, co-ordinator of the Gambia Press Union (GPU), confirmed the arrests of general manager Madi Ceesay and editor Musa Saidy Khan. The Independent, which is critical of President...

Jerry Yang, one of the co-founders of Internet giant Yahoo, defended the Internet search engine's cooperation with the Chinese government's censorship of the Web, saying it was necessary to reach out to new users, an AFP report said. The report said lawmakers had accused tech giants Yahoo, Google and Microsoft of helping sustain the so-called "Great Firewall of China," which blocked searches of...

WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) -- In a move that will almost certainly boost political ad spending on the Internet, the Federal Election Commission gave political blogging more freedom while tightening controls for paid advertising. In a unanimous decision, the six-member FEC said paid political ads have to be disclosed -- but not much else -- on the Internet, unless the activity is specifically done by a...

The Associated Press has confirmed using a Raw Story report as the basis for a Mar. 14 article detailing a change to national security clearance policies but has refused to issue credit for the piece. Their article, "Security Clearance Rules May Impede Gays," signaled an apparent Bush Administration attempt to tighten security clearances with regard to gay Americans. It attributed the discovery of...