2005-2014

These men have a streak of obstinate determination to succeed and an indomitable courage to dream. What makes them winners? Subhash Chandra -- arguably new India's first media baron -- comes from a trader family from Haryana who dabbled in various businesses from rice milling and trade to laminated tubes before setting up India's first amusement park Essel World. It was only in the early nineties...

NEW YORK: When The New York Times ran Kurt Eichenwald's Dec. 19 story about a 13-year-old who used his computer to sell sex acts over the Internet, the paper not only ran the piece on its Web site, it also included a Web-only essay and a video interview with the boy. One month later on the opposite coast, Kevin Fagan of the San Francisco Chronicle served as a media witness at an execution, then...

Hyderabad, Mar 22 : A journalist working with a newspaper here was allegedly manhandled by the police and was detained for over nine hours in the police station last night. In a letter to Chief Minister YSR Reddy, the newspaper said the sub-editor of the paper was having a cup of tea at Punjagutta at about 11.45 pm last night when he was allegedly roughed up and dragged to the police station by...

New York -- The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the detention and prosecution of a Kurdish journalist who was seized by Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq. On March 17, security forces affiliated with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) arrested Hawez Hawezi, a 31-year-old high school teacher who also writes for the independent Kurdish weekly Hawlati, at his home in Koya...

New York, March 22, 2006–The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the detention and prosecution of a Kurdish journalist, who was seized by Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq. On March 17, security forces affiliated with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) arrested Hawez Hawezi, a 31-year-old high school teacher who also writes for the independent Kurdish weekly Hawlati, at his...

Looking for ways to shore up their readership and broaden appeal to advertisers, many U.S. newspapers are adopting a new tactic: targeting narrower and younger audiences. Newspapers are launching youth-oriented publications designed to attract smaller advertisers that can't afford mainstream papers. They're building search engines to compete with Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. on a local level. And...

SANA’A, March 22 – Prosecution lawyers yesterday demanded that the English language Yemen Observer be shut down permanently and all the newspaper’s property and assets be confiscated, saying the newspaper insulted and mocked Islam and the Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) by republishing caricatures of him. They also demanded that Editor-in-Chief Mohammed Al-Asaadi be forever banned from newspaper writing....

PRAGUE, March 22, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Khommadov spoke first about his physical condition, but he indicated that he was under the surveillance of security officials at his home in Turkmenistan. "Now I feel well," he says. "Very well. But in the village during all these days the [National Security Ministry or MNB] officers or some other security force employees are keeping watch over us." Khommadov and...

Meg Scholz, a senior at the University of Texas, goes online at least a few times every day to check her e-mail. When she does, Scholz invariably scans several news websites and blogs to see what's going on in the world. She rarely picks up a newspaper or watches TV news, because for her, the Web serves virtually all her news needs. "It's not that I have anything against reading a printed...

Romanian journalists George Buhnici, sued for illegal possession and use of special surveillance devices (SSD), was finally acquitted, his lawyer announced. This happened after the Supreme Cassation Court withdrew the disctrict prosecutors objection against the acquittal of the journalists. George Buhnici, an investigative journalist from commercial PRO TV, was seized 16 November 2004 in the...